Stem Cell Research and News: Germany
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I guess its not suprising news when one things about it really. German stem cell researchers are now reporting they have isolated a unique type of cell within adult mouse testicles. These new cells have many of the same properties...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 24, 2006 06:23 PM
Stem Cell Heart Therapy Has Mixed Results - Followup
Following up on our article discussing one study's failure to show positive results from one type of stem cell heart therapy, MSN is doing a big breakdown showing both the pros and cons of stem cell research focusing on heart...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 7, 2006 02:10 AM
Study Showing Bone Marrow Stem Cell Therapy Fails To Repair Heart Damage
Contradicting several of the articles we have dug up here ... researchers in Germany in a new study seem to indicate no measurable benefit to stem cell derived from bone marrow injections don't appear to provide significant benefit. Now I...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 2, 2006 01:00 AM
Aastrom Biosciences' Tissue Repair Cells Used In New Clinical Trial For Regeneration Of Vascular Tissue In Diabetic Patients
Novel Treatment Utilizes Company's Adult Bone Marrow Stem Cell Product Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 6, 2005 – Aastrom Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASTM) announced today that the first clinical trial utilizing Aastrom's proprietary Tissue Repair Cells (TRCs) to treat limb ischemia...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on October 17, 2005 06:30 PM
MEPs Challenge EU Stem Cell Research
In the context of the proposed new EU framework programme for research (FP7), a group of members of the Parliament (MEPs) are calling for the Community to stop the EU funding for human stem cell research. As some EU countries...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on October 4, 2005 06:24 PM
Isolation of Adult Muscle Stem Cells for Skeletal Muscle Repair
EuroStemCell researchers from the Institut Pasteur have isolated muscle stem cells displaying a high potential for muscle repair. These stem cells are much more effective in promoting muscle repair than the cultured cells previously used. This work, published on September...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on September 13, 2005 06:10 PM
Geron Announces Publications Demonstrating Efficacy Of GRN163l
Menlo Park, CA – Sept 6, 2005 – Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN) announced today publications demonstrating efficacy of GRN163L, its pan-cancer telomerase inhibitor drug, in mouse models of human hepatocellular carcinoma and human metastatic lung cancer. The studies confirm and...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on September 9, 2005 06:50 PM
A New Link Between Stem Cells and Tumors
Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] in Heidelberg and the Institute of Biomedical Research of the Parc Científic de Bar de Barcelona [IRB-PCB] in Spain have now added key evidence to claims that some types of cancer originate...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on September 9, 2005 03:27 PM
International Stem Cell Meeting in Kobe, Japan
Asian, European and American scientists participate in high-level workshop on "Stem Cells in Reproduction and in the Brain" A critical mass of leading experts will meet from 1st to 3rd September in Kobe, Japan, to discuss and summarize the current...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on September 2, 2005 05:37 PM
ViaCell, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2005 Financial Results
CAMBRIDGE, August 9, 2005 - ViaCell, Inc. (Nasdaq: VIAC), a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to enabling the widespread application of human cells as medicine in the areas of cancer, cardiac disease, diabetes and infertility, today reported financial results for the...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on August 10, 2005 05:22 PM
New Life Scientific, Inc. and Professor V.A. Kordyum Ph.D. Present Research Data to the ETES
FREEHOLD, N.J., Aug. 1, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) - Professor V.A. Kordyum, Doctor of Sciences, Research and Development Partner of New Life Scientific, Inc. (OTCBB:NWLF), will present his report on "Genomic Cellular Tissue Reconstruction" at the 4th Annual Meeting of the European...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on August 5, 2005 03:24 PM
AnorMED Reports Fiscal 2006 First Quarter Results, Progress on Phase III Trials, and Announces New Vice President, Marketing
Vancouver, British Columbia - AnorMED Inc. (TSX:AOM) today reported financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2005. AnorMED recorded a net loss of $8,025,000 ($0.25 per common share) in this quarter. This is in comparison to the...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on August 5, 2005 02:33 PM
Tissue Regeneration Operates Differently Than Expected
Max Planck researchers in Bad Nauheim discover the mechanism by which adult stem cells are integrated into skeletal or heart muscle tissue ... Embryonic and adult stem cells are thought to become a chance for new therapeutic approaches, making the...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on August 4, 2005 05:50 PM
France Approves Importation of Stem Cell Lines
France has approved, with certain restrictions, the importing of stem cell lines for stem cell research development. Nine ministerial orders were published in France's official journal on July 23, 2005 give a restricted licence to a number of national research...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on August 1, 2005 05:38 PM
Bioindustry Disappointed by Commission's Uncertain Position on Patenting
The European association for bioindustries, EuropaBio, has expressed its disappointment at the failure of the European Commission to take a position on the patenting of human DNA and human stem cells, which were not clarified in the EU Biotechnology Patents...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on July 25, 2005 11:09 AM
Breakthrough isolating embryo-quality stem cells from blood
Professor Josef Käs and Dr Jochen Guck from the University of Leipzig have developed a procedure that can extract and isolate embryo-quality stem cells from adult blood for the first time. This new technique could unlock the stem cell revolution...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on June 20, 2005 11:08 PM
Landmark Stem Cell Law Caps Year of Progress in Connecticut
PHILADELPHIA, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Governor M. Jodi Rell's June 15 signing of a landmark embryonic stem cell research bill dramatically capped a year of lively development in Connecticut bioscience. The state's biotech and pharma companies, its major research universities,...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on June 20, 2005 07:08 PM
German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroder, Wants Stem Cell Laws Eased
Following right behind the Italians rejection of a bill that would ease their prohibitive laws on fertility and bioethics, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder made it clear that he believes that Germany should liberalize its own restrictive legislation on stem cell research....
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on June 15, 2005 12:55 AM
ViaCell, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2005 Financial Results
BOSTON, May 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ViaCell, Inc. (Nasdaq: VIAC), a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to enabling the widespread application of human cells as medicine in the areas of cancer, cardiac disease, diabetes and infertility, today reported financial results for the...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on May 11, 2005 03:50 PM
The EU Won't Increase Stem Cell Funding
It would appear that the EU is missing the boat so to speak and may not realize the same economic and health benefits that the US may see. With the funding frenzy currently underway in the US, stem cell research...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 20, 2005 11:41 AM
Laser Beams Detecting "Springiness" of Stem Cells
Now here is some research thats from outside the fold so to speak. Scientists are now using a laser technique to detect stem cells within blood, and hopefully distinguish cancer cells from benign cells. Using what they are calling an...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 13, 2005 12:33 PM
MultiCell Appoints Leading Stem Cell Expert to its Scientific Advisory Board
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 2005--MultiCell Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:MUCL), a leading supplier of non-tumorigenic immortalized human hepatocytes, announced today that it has appointed Markus Grompe, MD to the newly formed Stem Cell Panel of its Scientific Advisory Board. The Company's Scientific...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 6, 2005 06:51 PM
White Blood Cells Tweaked to Produce Insulin
New research is showing that human blood cells can be convinced to start producing insulin. This raises the hope that this may develop into a new treatment for diabetes. Thusfar the methods have been tested on mice so far, it...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 6, 2005 06:35 PM
Ian Wilmut, Creator of "Dolly" Gets Award in Germany
Ian Wilmut has received Germany's most prestigious medical prize Monday amid criticism of the partly state-funded award by opponents of cloning. Ian Wimut is best know as the head of the team that created Dolly at Scotland's Roslin Institute in...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 14, 2005 08:44 PM
Scientists Discover That Three Overlapping Signals In Embryo Help Get The Backbone Right
A major step in the development of the vertebrate embryo - the establishment of a back that morphs into a brain, spinal cord and muscles - turns out to be so important that the body uses at least three signals...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 10, 2005 10:16 PM
British Scientists Believe That They are Close to Miracle Stem Cell Heart Therapy
Various studies have suggested that stem cells taken from a patient's bone marrow and then re-injected into a patient's heart can repair the damage from heart disease. A large scale study to establish whether the treatment works once and for...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 7, 2005 01:30 PM
US Patent Office Rejects PharmaStem Cord Blood Stem Cell Patents
ThermoGenesis Corp. (Nasdaq: KOOL), a supplier of cryogenic devices used by cord blood banks, and NETCORD, the leading international network of public cord blood banks, today announced that the U.S. Patent Office (PTO) has reexamined U.S. Patent 5,192,553 (Patent '553)...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 1, 2005 07:47 PM
Stock Report for Week Ending Feb 11 ... Mixed Bag
Stem Cell Stocks overall displayed quite a lot of variation in the indexes for the past week... while Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. ended the week with an increase of 10.61 percent, others StemCells Inc., a veteran in this industry, went...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 13, 2005 01:53 AM
Genzyme Acquires Verigen AG
Genzyme Corporation (Nasdaq: GENZ) announced today that it has acquired Verigen AG, a private company based in Germany with a proprietary cell therapy product for cartilage repair currently sold in Europe and Australia. This product, Matrix-induced Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation (MACI(R)),...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 8, 2005 02:08 PM
AnorMED Announces Fiscal 2005 Third Quarter Results and Upcoming Key Events
AnorMED Inc. (TSX:AOM) today reported financial results for its third quarter ended December 31, 2004. AnorMED recorded net income of $15,848,000 ($0.50 per common share) in this quarter. This is in comparison to the net losses incurred in the third...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 3, 2005 02:29 PM
Safety Endpoint for TRC Product Reached - Trial Expanded
Aastrom Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTM) today announced that its U.S. clinical trial of the Company's Tissue Repair Cell (TRC) product intended for the treatment of long-bone, severe fractures has successfully achieved the first FDA-required clinical benchmark, meeting the clinical safety...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 2, 2005 10:08 AM
Stem Cell Research Programs at Universities Around the World.
After reading around, and trying to get some resources in place for Stem Cell Research references and news sources, we decided to get a list of University Medical Programs that participate in or are part of the Stem Cell Research...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on January 14, 2005 12:29 PM