Stem Cell Research and News: Sweden
<-- Back To RegionsBrain Stem Cells To Fight Cancer
Research at Lund University in Sweden provides hope that in the future it may be possible to develop stem cells from the brain into a new way to treat gliomas. Neural stem cells have been shown to have the ability...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on January 19, 2007 08:08 AM
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
Your Average Age is 10 .. No Matter What Your ID Says
Count on family to find that one article that really makes you sit up and go "wow!". Thanks Mom ;) The New York Times is covering work by Jonas Frisen at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Essentially what he...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on August 3, 2005 06:03 PM
Swedish Researchers Create New Brain Cells From Stem Cells
New functional brain cells have been created by Swedish stem cell researchers by using stem cells taken from the brains of living adults. This new research gives even more hope that one day, effective treatments for illnesses like Parkinson's and...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on July 28, 2005 11:44 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
USC Partnership Studies Stem Cells In Quest To Restore Nervous System Function
In the brave new world of neuroscience, surgeons will no longer simply remove diseased parts of the brain; they will replace them with new, healthy cells grown in the lab. Parkinson’s patients will steadily grasp a pen without shaking. Stroke...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on July 18, 2005 06:12 PM
Anormed Announces Fiscal 2005 Results and 2006 Key Events
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - AnorMED Inc. (TSX:AOM) reported today a net loss of $2,169,000 ($0.07 per common share) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005, compared to a net loss of $17,531,000 ($0.64 per common share) in Fiscal 2004....
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on June 1, 2005 06:08 PM
BrainStorm Appoints Prof. Ole Isacson to Scientific Advisory Board; Award Winning Neurologist and Advisor to Michael J. Fox Foundation to Provide Compelling Research Direction
TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 24, 2005 - BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics (OTCBB:BCLI), an emerging company in stem cell therapeutics for neurological diseases, today announced that Prof. Ole Isacson, internationally renowned neurologist and pioneering innovator in cell therapeutic strategies for neural regeneration,...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 24, 2005 06:36 PM
Sweden: Stem Cell Therapy for Spinal Injury
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, have shown how the transplantation of stem cells improves recovery from spinal injury. However, a painful condition can also develop, which can be prevented if the stem cells are supplemented with a certain gene that...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 14, 2005 08:00 PM
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