Stem Cell Research and News: Kansas
<-- Back To RegionsRobot Assisted Stem Cell Therapy a First in Thailand
Bangkok, Thailand (PRWEB) November 9, 2005 - In a historic operation, surgeons at Bangkok Heart Hospital performed Thailand’s first robot-assisted cardiac stem cell implantation on October 27, 2005. Utilizing Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci Surgical System and VesCell adult stem cell...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on December 5, 2005 05:32 PM
Citizens' Initiative Effort Launched to Protect Stem Cell Research and Cures in Missouri
Statewide Ballot Measure is the First in U.S. Designed to Protect Patients' Rights to Receive Stem Cell Therapies and Cures JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Oct. 11 - A coalition of patient advocacy groups, medical organizations and concerned citizens today launched an...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on November 3, 2005 01:29 PM
K-State Establishes New Institute To Study Stem Cells
MANHATTAN, Kan., Sept. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Scientists at Kansas State University have established the Midwest Institute for Comparative Stem Cell Biology to expand research around stem cells derived from the umbilical cord matrix after birth. "This new institute is...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on September 6, 2005 05:39 PM
Missouri Blocks Kansas City Research
The ethical debate over embryonic stem cells reaches beyond Washington to state capitals and research parks across the country. With competition hot from Maryland to California for cutting-edge research and the profits that could follow, many states are evaluating the...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on August 11, 2005 05:17 PM
Serologicals Corporation Reports Second Quarter Results; Revenues Increase 46% for the Quarter and 50% for First Six Months
ATLANTA -- Serologicals Corporation (NASDAQ:SERO) today announced financial results for the second quarter ended July 3, 2005. Revenues for the second quarter increased 46.1%, to $64.2 million, compared to $44.0 million in the same period last year while revenues for...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on July 28, 2005 12:42 PM
NYT Talks About Stem Cell Research Assisting In Fertility
The New York Times is running an article, discussing research showing that there may be a hidden source of stem cells in the bone marrow. This cache so to speak is capabable of replenishing the ovaries with new eggs. This...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on July 28, 2005 11:23 AM
MultiCell Technologies Commences Sales of Immortalized Porcine Hepatocytes
LINCOLN, R.I. – (BUSINESS WIRE) – June 10, 2005 – MultiCell Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: MCET) a leading supplier of immortalized human hepatic cell lines for pharmaceutical candidate optimization, announced today that it has commenced sales of HepLiu immortalized porcine (pig)...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on June 11, 2005 11:55 PM
MultiCell Licensee XenoTech Holds Drug Metabolism Symposium
LINCOLN, R.I., June 6, 2005 – MultiCell Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: MUCL) a leading supplier of immortalized hepatocytes as pharmaceutical candidate optimization tools, announced today that its licensee, XenoTech, LLC, will present MultiCell's unique, functional hepatocytes at a two-day symposium June...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on June 7, 2005 11:51 PM
MultiCell Technologies Announces New Employment Agreement With Dr. Ronald Faris, Ph.D.
LINCOLN, R.I.-- May 31, 2005--MultiCell Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: MCET), a leading supplier of immortalized non-tumorigenic human hepatocytes as pharmaceutical candidate optimization tools, announced that Ronald Faris, Ph.D., Senior Vice President and Chief Science Officer of the Company, has signed a...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on June 3, 2005 05:04 PM
Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005 (HR-2520) Passes the House of Representatives
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif., May 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ThermoGenesis Corp. (Nasdaq: KOOL) announced today that HR-2520, the "Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005" was passed by virtually unanimous decision by the House of Representatives. This Bill amends the Public...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on May 30, 2005 11:27 AM
Five Nines Ltd. Details New Business Direction
RICHFIELD, OH, May 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Five Nines Ltd. (the "Company") (PINK SHEETS: FVNN) Carman Parente, President of Five Nines, Ltd. reports that the Company has appointed C. Bernard Cardwell as the Company's new Chairman of the Board. Mr. Cardwell,...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on May 27, 2005 09:10 AM
Serologicals Corporation Reports First Quarter Results; Revenues Increase 55% as Company Confirms Full-Year Guidance
ATLANTA, GA - April 27, 2005 - Serologicals Corporation (NASDAQ:SERO) today announced financial results for the first quarter ended April 3, 2005. Revenues increased 55.1%, to $56.6 million, compared to $36.5 million in the same period last year. Diluted earnings...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 27, 2005 03:46 PM
The Never Ending Stem Cell Research Debate Goes On
The issues that seem to continually revolve around stem cell research .. we all know them so well. Effectively through they all boil down in the simplest terms: Can we cure disease with embryonic stem cells? And naturally after that:...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 22, 2005 09:23 AM
Growing Coalition Opposes Ban on Stem Cell Research
- Hundreds of Missouri Medical Experts, Patient Advocates, Clergy, and Civic and Business Leaders Join Effort to Protect Stem Cell Research JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Supporters of stem cell research announced today that hundreds of prominent medical...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 7, 2005 11:25 AM
Legislation to Create a National Inventory of 150,000 Cord Blood Stem Cell Units Introduced in the Senate (S-681) and House (H.R. 596)
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif., March 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ThermoGenesis Corp. (Nasdaq: KOOL) announced today that S-681 titled "Cord Blood Stem Cell Act of 2005" was introduced on March 17, 2005 in the Senate "to establish a National Cord Blood Stem Cell...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 22, 2005 04:51 PM
Testimony of Barbara Atkinson, MD on House Bill 2355
Testimony of Barbara Atkinson, MD Executive Vice Chancellor University of Kansas Medical Center On House Bill 2355 House Federal and State Affairs Committee, Room 313-S, Statehouse March 16, 2005 Thank you to Chairman Edmonds, Vice Chair Siegfried, and the entire...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 21, 2005 10:51 AM
Kansas: EDC Decry Stem Cell Opposition
Officials from the Economic Development Corp. of Kansas City on Friday blasted attempts to ban stem cell research in Missouri and lamented the Kansas City Royals' decision to remain at Kauffman Stadium. Kansas City Mayor Kay Barnes called the Missouri...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 21, 2005 01:23 PM
Missouri: Ban On Stem Cell Research Moves Forward
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Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 15, 2005 11:02 AM
Missouri Struggling with 'Therapeutic Cloning'
Back with more news about the stem cell debate in Missouri. Meador, a mother of four from Warrenton, said that the research technique creates a human embryo that is killed when the stem cells are removed. That makes the price...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 14, 2005 08:35 PM
Missouri: Coalition for Lifesaving Cures Launched to Support Stem Cell Research
Supporters of stem cell research in Missouri announced today the launch of the Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures, a broad-based group that includes over 60 leading state and national patient advocacy, business, medical, academic, research and civic organizations. The Coalition...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 10, 2005 11:56 PM
Cloning Ban Likely to Make Comeback
With President Bush briefly alluding to stem cell research and cloning during his State of the Union address, instigating much speculation on what to expect in 2005. Many of the State of the Union's observers don't believe that the president...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 10, 2005 01:27 AM
UAMS Sees Blood Stem-Cell Work Rise
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences performed 633 blood stem-cell transplants in 2004, a number that officials say rivals the top facility nationally for blood stem-cell transplants, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston....
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on January 31, 2005 08:28 PM