Stem Cell Research and News: India
<-- Back To RegionsStem Cells To Combat Peripheral Arterial Disease?
Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis are running a study to look into the possibility of using adult stem cell injections to promote blood vessel repair and the growth of new blood vessels. The idea is...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 27, 2006 05:04 PM
Stem Cells To Be Used To Treat Artery Disease
Indiana University School of Medicine researchers are starting a clinical trial that tests stem cells as a treatment option for peripheral artery disease. This trial involves using injections of stem cell as a treatment that could offer hope to tens...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 9, 2006 10:13 PM
XYTOS Announces Public Listing, Trading Sector, and Future of Company
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 29, 2005 - XYTOS, Inc. (the "Company") (Nasdaq:XYTS) is pleased to announce their public listing under the trading symbol of XYTS. XYTOS will trade in the Bio-Medical Sector, with the goal to accelerate the future of the "Science...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on September 1, 2005 07:09 PM
Singapore Wants Everyone To Know They Do Stem Cell Research Too
In Asia, South Korea always gets the spotlight .. and sometimes China. Singapore however, has been quietly working on developing procedures based off of some the research being done world wide. Steven Fang, chief executive of Singapore-based CyGenics, stated that...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on August 26, 2005 03:07 PM
ThermoGenesis Corp. Initiates Shipments of Thrombin Processing Devices(TM) (TPD(TM)) To Biomet, Inc.
Agreement Allows Biomet to Immediately Market Their Gravitational Platelet Separation System (GPS) in Europe, Canada and Asia as a Fully Autologous Product RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ThermoGenesis Corp. (Nasdaq: KOOL - News) announced today that the Company...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on August 16, 2005 05:32 PM
Genentech In The Top At The 2005 Pharma Achievement Awards
Harvard’s Judah Folkman Honored with 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award On Monday evening, the 2005 Pharmaceutical Achievement Awards were presented in a black tie dinner ceremony at Boston’s State Room. Over 350 guests were in attendance to honor eighteen recipients of...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on August 11, 2005 05:25 PM
CRYO-CELL Exceeds 100,000 Client Milestone
OLDSMAR, Fla., Aug. 3 -- CRYO-CELL International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CCEL), the world's largest family cord blood bank, announced today that it has now processed and cryogenically preserved cord blood stem cells for over 100,000 clients. The Company believes...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on August 3, 2005 04:07 PM
Embryonic Stem Cell Public Research Starts in Spain; Therapeutic Cloning Expected To Follow Suit
Barcelona's Research Regenerative Medicine Centre (CIMRB) has started to unfreeze the first embryos from a bank that will provide the cells necessary to generate embryonic stem cell lines and analyse their transformation in different tissues, namely cardiac and bone cells,...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on July 25, 2005 11:02 AM
UCSF To Train Stem Cell Research Scientists in India
Its being reported that the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), will begin training groups of Indian scientists in the field of regenerative and stem cell research. This based on statments from visiting Union Health Minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss has...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on June 13, 2005 03:52 PM
Geron Announces Publication Characterizing GRN163L, Its Telomerase Inhibitor Drug Currently in Clinical Development for Cancer
MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 2005--Geron Corporation (Nasdaq:GERN) announced today the publication of data on cell and animal testing of GRN163L, its telomerase inhibitor anti-cancer drug. The results describe (1) the synthesis and structure of GRN163L, (2) its potency for...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on June 3, 2005 06:48 AM
Life-Cell Launches Cord Blood Bank in India
At the launch its operations in Gujarat last evening, Life-Cell's chief promoter Abhay Kumar said, "Stem cells can be collected from the umblical cord, which is otherwise thrown as bio-medical waste. They can be preserved and used to cure 70...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on May 9, 2005 11:55 AM
India - Family cord blood bank inaugurated in city
A family cord blood bank has been started in Ludhiana. It was formally inaugurated this past week ... Dr Saranya Nandakumar, medical director of the LifeCell company, said that stem cells had revolutionised the very face of medicine. She said...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 18, 2005 01:42 PM
Report Proposes Structure for National Network of Cord Blood Stem Cell Banks
WASHINGTON -- To achieve a more cohesive national system for storing and distributing lifesaving stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services should establish a new National Cord Blood Policy Board to set...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 15, 2005 02:53 PM
Cord Blood Accelerates Eye Treatments
Scientists in New Delhi, India have used a component of umbilical cord blood to treat eye defects related to cornea damage and are claiming that it speeds up healing. "Use of serum, obtained from umbilical cord blood, was found to...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 11, 2005 01:36 PM
Chandigarh Institute In India To Set Up Umbilical Cord Blood Bank
The Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI) in Chandigarh will be setting up an Indian National mbilical cord bank. The goal is to facilitate the use of cord blood as an alternative to bone marrow as a...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 11, 2005 11:52 AM
ThermoGenesis Corp. to Supply Autologous Thrombin Kits to Biomet, Inc.
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif., April 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ThermoGenesis Corp. (Nasdaq: KOOL - News) announced today that the Company and Biomet, Inc (Nasdaq: BMET - News) reached agreement for the Company to supply Biomet's subsidiary, Cell Factor Technologies, Inc. (CFT) with...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 5, 2005 09:46 PM
Australians Banking Cord Blood For Future Use
As with parts of Europe, India and the United states, some Australian parents are currently paying thousands of dollars to have their babies' umbilical cord blood frozen at birth. It is seen as an investment in their children's future health....
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 4, 2005 11:55 PM
Deafness Treatment Possibly on the Horizon With Stem Cells
Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine are reportedly closer to a time when a deaf patient’s own bone marrow cells could be used to let him or her hear. The Indiana University group led by Eri Hashino, Ph.D., have...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 4, 2005 10:55 AM
India's AIIMS to Give Proof of Stem Cell Research
The premier medical institute in New Delhi,India is all set to prove to the world the quality of its stem cell therapy which has conducted over the last 18 months on heart patients, with the help of Positron Emission Tomography...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 23, 2005 12:18 PM
Robot Used To Inject Stem Cells Into Heart
For the first time, the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) has used a robot to inject stem cells directly into a human heart, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Anbumani Ramadoss said here on Friday. "Stem cell...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 20, 2005 01:31 PM
The Costs Of Cord Blood Banking in India
It costs Rs 59,900 to store stem cells for 21 years. Cord blood stem cells, can now be banked like savings for a rainy day. A 16,000 sq ft lab at Keelakotaiyur near Chennai has just been set up to...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 9, 2005 01:12 PM
Embyonic Cord Blood Bank Opened in India By CryoCell
A franchisee of the cord blood stem cell bank facility at Chennai has been set up. This new facility also allows storage of stem cells from umbilical cord blood from a new born baby to be available for future use...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 7, 2005 02:11 PM
Indiana Joins Stem Cell Research Pursuit
EndGenitor Technologies, backed by angel investors and housed Downtown at the Indiana University Emerging Technologies Center incubator, plans to use stem cells from umbilical cords to repair blood vessels. EndGenitor was founded by Drs. Mervin Yoder and David Ingram, Indiana...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on January 27, 2005 01:11 PM
Asia Is Becoming Stem Cell Central
Alan Colman - English biochemist and a leader of the British team that created the first cloned mammal in 1997, says that Singapore is creating "a center of excellence in stem cell research" and that there is plenty of funding...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on January 3, 2005 12:04 PM
Good News! That Fat may help your Heart!
More news on the front of stem cells being derived from the fatty tissue in ones own body, may actually be used in heart treatment. Indiana University School of Medicine researcher Dr. Keith March has hopes that this is one...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on November 30, 2004 10:15 AM