Stem Cell Research and News: Wisconsin
<-- Back To RegionsUsing Stem Cells as Drug Delivery To Bypass Blood Brain Barrier
The blood brain barrier is a well known problem to neurologists trying to introduce certain compounds to the brains of patients suffering from things like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. However, a new method using stem cells may be a solution. One...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 31, 2006 01:43 PM
Controlling Embryonic Stem Cells With Liquid Crystals
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers at the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) are showing that by mechanically straining embryonic cells as they grow with liquid crystals, it is possible to almost eliminate the uncontrolled differentiation of stem cells. Keep...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 7, 2006 01:58 AM
Stem Cell Therapy International, Inc. Announces Symbol Change to "SCII"
TAMPA, FL, Oct 14, 2005 - Stem Cell Therapy International, Inc. (Other OTC:ATYD.PK), a pioneer in the field of research and development of stem cell transplantation (SCT) therapy and regenerative medicine, announced today that it has changed its stock symbol...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on October 17, 2005 05:09 PM
Brain Tumors May Originate With Neural Stem Cells
Researchers at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Texas have determined that stem cells in a certain region of the brain may be the source of a particular type of incurable brain tumor and may be implicated in other...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on August 16, 2005 01:38 PM
Chemicon to Expand Labs In Temecula, California
Chemicon International company officials said this week that it will expand its work force in Southwest County, California and start producing research equipment for human embryonic stem cells. The development there is separate from its operations in Temecula, but both...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on July 28, 2005 10:44 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
PhereSys Therapeutics Announces Consulting Agreement with Advanced Cell & Gene Therapy, LLC
PhereSys(TM) Therapeutics Corporation ("PhereSys") announced today that it has entered into a comprehensive consulting services agreement with Advanced Cell & Gene Therapy LLC ("ACGT"), Scott R. Burger, MD, Principal. Advanced Cell & Gene Therapy, LLC, located in Chapel Hill, North...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on July 27, 2005 05:53 PM
Elderly Mice Provide Insight Into The Process of Growing Old
A strain of mice that have been engineered to age rapidly has helped scientists find that an accumulation of genetic mutations prompts a cascade of programmed cell death that seems to underpin the aging process. Not sure how this makes...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on July 15, 2005 01:57 PM
Scientific America On Geron and Stem Cell Research Patents
Scientific America has a great article covering the rise of Geron in the stem cell research field. Essentially, Geron mades its name as a result of its patent might. Geron for a long time held exclusive rights to many embryonic...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on June 28, 2005 05:59 PM
PhereSys Therapeutics Corp. Sheet
PhereSys Therapeutics Corp. Articles More PhereSys Therapeutics Corp. Articles Corporate Summary (site quote): PhereSys Therapeutics is a privately held company founded to become the premier therapeutic apheresis and cellular therapies provider in the United States. Therapeutic Apheresis or 'blood...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on June 27, 2005 05:43 PM
Cord Blood Donation in Wisconsin Soon To Be Possible
There is potentially a new option in cord blood banking for newborns in Wisconsin. Thusfar parents in Wisconsin have only had the option of privately banking their newborn's umbilical cord blood. The benefit in banking or freezing newborn cord blood...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on June 10, 2005 01:48 PM
Wisconsin Right To Life Group Pushes For Stem Cell Limits
Wisconsin's Right to Life Group has requested that the Wisconsin Joint Finance Committee pass an amendment to the new state budget that go further in limiting stem cell research. These limitations would include: - No use of state funds "to...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on June 6, 2005 11:18 AM
Initial Discoverer of Stem Cells To Test Drugs With Stem Cell Research
Business Week has an article regarding Jamie Thomson, who is the researcher that is credited as being the first to isolate human embryonic stem cells. Effectively Thomson wants to head out into the commercial sector with the hope to profit...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on May 31, 2005 03:02 PM
Sen. Leibham: State Senate Passes Leibham Bill That Promotes Umbilical Cord Blood Donation
Madison, WI - The State Senate unanimously approved Senator Joe Leibham’s (R-Sheboygan) and Representative Steve Wieckert’s (R-Appleton) umbilical cord blood banking bill that would require physicians and other health care professionals to discuss umbilical cord blood banking with expectant mothers....
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on May 10, 2005 10:43 PM
New York Concerned About Falling Behind in Stem Cell Research
Robert Palazzo, the head of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's (RPI) biotech effort is concerned that New York State is falling behind in stem-cell research. Not a shock considering the latest news regarding the final announcement of the California Institute of Regenerative...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on May 9, 2005 11:00 AM
Stem Cell Clones Developed By BioE
BioE stated this past Wednesday that it will soon start selling cloned stem cells to researchers to be used in developing drugs and regenerative medicine. BioE Chief Executive Mike Haider said his company's "Multi-Linear Progenitor Cells" avoid the ethical and...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on May 5, 2005 06:43 PM
Two New Stem Cell Programs at UW-Madison
With its already dominant position in stem cell research, UW-Madison will further add two new stem cell programs to its portfolio. At a meeting of stem cell researchers in Madison today (April 26), UW-Madison professor of anatomy and neurology Clive...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 26, 2005 12:34 PM
Human Neural Stem Cells Persist and Influence Nerve Cells in Rat Model of ALS
Roberta Friedman, PhD, Research Department Information Coordinator April 21, 2005 [QUICK SUMMARY: ALSA funded researchers placed genetically engineered human stem cells into rat spinal cord and showed that they can secrete, as instructed, a maintaining factor that aids the ability...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 25, 2005 04:44 PM
University of Wisconsin Stem Cell Research Targeting ALS
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison are now saying that they may be within two or three years of human trials on a new stem cell treatment for the nerve disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS or Lou Gehrig's...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 20, 2005 12:36 PM
States Compete In Attracting Stem Cell Researchers
Throughout the US, states are evaluating or actually setting up their own embryonic stem cell programs. The potential rewards in medical breakthroughs and economic development are too lucrative to ignore. As a result, the legislatures in these states are putting...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 18, 2005 02:15 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
Wisconsin Researchers Dismayed Over Stem Cell Vote
Wisconsin business and research leaders reacted with dismay this past Wednesday when the Assembly Tuesday night voted on a bill that would bar companies doing research on new stem cell lines from applying for research and development tax credits. The...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 15, 2005 11:26 AM
A New Drug Screening Company, Cellular Dynamics International, Opening in Madison, WI
MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 2005--Cellular Dynamics International (CDI), a privately held company, announced today that it recently began construction of laboratory facilities for a new biotechnology-based drug screening company at University Research Park in Madison, Wisconsin. CDI was founded by...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 1, 2005 09:32 AM
Key Stem Cell Pioneer Start Business in Madison, WI
Dr. Jamie Thomson, the original University of Wisconsin at Madison scientist who was the first to isolate and reproduced human embryonic stem cells, has officially leased space at the University Research Park and will be starting a stem cell company....
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 31, 2005 07:45 PM
Verispan StateLine Issue Reports Monitor Legislative Activity Related to Specific Topics, Such as Stem Cell Research
YARDLEY, Pa. - Stem cell research has emerged as one of the most controversial and complex issues facing state lawmakers. As the level of attention and controversy has increased, states are introducing and passing legislation in record numbers. For example:...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 31, 2005 05:49 PM
Geron Announces Studies That Human Embryonic Stem Cells Can Be Grown with Defined Growth Factors Enabling Scaled Production of Therapeutic Cells
MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 2005--Geron Corporation (Nasdaq:GERN) announced today the publication of studies which demonstrate that human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) can be propagated in culture using defined growth factors without the need for feeder cells or media conditioned...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 9, 2005 12:27 PM
Hadassah Pushing Stem-cell Legislation
In a move that is likely to bring it into conflict with Catholic and Evangelical Christian groups, the largest Jewish organization in America is launching a push for pro-stem-cell-research legislation in state houses around the country. Hadassah, the 300,000-member women's...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 24, 2005 12:59 PM
Wisconsin: Foundation Looking To Tap into California Spending
California may be the state ready to spend $3 billion on stem cell research, but Wisconsin is looking to get a piece of that pie. A Wisconsin foundation is positioning to play a major role in, and perhaps even profit...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 21, 2005 05:08 PM
Decontaminating the Contaminated Stem Cell Lines
As a consequence of the pressing and controversial technical barrier in stem cell biology, scientists at the WiCell Research Institute and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a recipe that allows researchers to grow human embryonic stem cells in the...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 18, 2005 12:29 AM
Washington: More on the Latest U.S. Bills Seek to Promote Stem Cell Research
Attempting to circumvent President Bush's limits on the use of stem cells from human embryos, members of Congress on Wednesday introduced bills to allow federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. Supporters from BOTH major parties joined the coordinated introduction...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 17, 2005 12:05 AM
California: What Is The Worst Thing One Can Do To Politicians? Give Them Money
Well, not that it would come as any real suprise, but now with Prop 71 basically a thing of the past, here comes the drama. Now that the politicians have gotten the state to approve effectively $3 Billion in funding...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 13, 2005 02:54 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
Wisonsin: Former Health Secretary Supports Stem Cell Research
Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson told Wisconsin editors that he supports stem cell research. Thompson's speech Thursday to the Wisconsin Newspaper Association was his first public appearance in the state as a private citizen in 38 years,...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 7, 2005 11:11 AM
University of Nebraska to do Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Two teams of scientists will begin human embryonic stem cell research at the University of Nebraska Medical Center as soon as March, a start date marking the culmination of the scientists' lifes' work and the med center's first foray into...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 7, 2005 10:36 AM
Team Receives $1.25 Million Grant for Stem Cell Research
A multidisciplinary team led by James Thomson has received a $1.25 million grant for stem cell research from the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles. The grant is directed to a three-year project focusing on the nature of embryonic stem...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 4, 2005 02:42 PM
Lawmaker Pushes Umbilical Cord Donation
The Umbilical Cord Blood Banking Act, introduced Wednesday by Sen. Nancy Rodriguez, would require doctors to inform pregnant women about umbilical cord donation and require hospitals to allow pregnant patients to arrange for such donations....
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 3, 2005 08:52 PM
Michael J Fox To Meet Stem Cell Scientist
Along with the news that the Michael J Fox Foundation has awarded funding to several research projects already. Now, Michael J Fox will join Wisconsin Governor Doyle on a tour of the Waisman Center in Madison today. They will also...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 2, 2005 11:27 AM
UBDF 3:1 Forward Split Effective Monday
Stem Cell stocks rebounded Friday as a recent Los Angeles Times article quoted UC San Francisco professor, Susan Fisher, explaining the importance of Prop. 71, which provides $3 billion in funding for stem cell research, circumventing President Bush's Federal restrictions....
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 1, 2005 09:16 PM
Stem Cells Coaxed Into Becoming Motor Neurons
Stem cells taken from human embryos were coaxed into becoming motor neurons in an experiment that might one day help scientists repair damaged nervous systems, researchers reported Sunday. The team at the University of Wisconsin used stem cells that are...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 1, 2005 11:34 AM
Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research Announced $1 Million In Grants
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) announced today that it has awarded grants totaling nearly $1 million to four researchers through its Cell Line II program, "Cell Replacement Therapy: Developing Dopaminergic Cell Lines With Long-Lasting Functional Impact...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 1, 2005 11:29 AM
More on U.S. State Level Stem Cell Funding
Current State level developments in the funding of stem cell research is still moving forward at a rapid pace: New York state Sen. David Paterson, a Democrat, introduced legislation last weekend that, if approved by voters, would dedicate $1 billion...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on January 20, 2005 11:56 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
Found a Neural Crest Stem Cell Migration Animation
Recently a new type of stem cell, called a neural crest stem cell, that persists into adulthood and exists in hair follicles was recently discovered by Maya Sieber-Blum, Ph.D., of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milos Grim, MD Ph.D., of...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on January 6, 2005 01:09 PM
Missouri Lobby Opposing Bill Banning Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Missouri biotech companies are opposing a proposal to ban embryonic stem cell research and all forms of human cloning in the Show Me State. Representatives of four Missouri research institutions have sent a letter to legislators asking them to reject...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on December 23, 2004 02:13 PM
Illinois Comptroller Hynes Proposes a Model Way to Tackle Stem Cell Research
Comptroller Dan Hynes' legislative initiative for state-supported stem cell research is remarkable, because it includes hallmarks of good public policy - a distinct rarity for traditionally policy-challenged Illinois.... Read On...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on December 21, 2004 11:02 AM
Connecticut Governor Calls for Funding Research into Stem Cells
Not wanting to be left behind by big states like California, Illinois and Wisconsin, the governor of Connecticut says she wants the insurance capital of the country to be a national leader in another category: embryonic stem cell research. Rell...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on December 14, 2004 07:00 PM
"Neural Crest" stem cells alternative to embryonic stem cells
Certain types of embryonic stem cells, called neural crest stem cells, persist into adulthood in hair follicles were recently discovered by Maya Sieber-Blum, Ph.D., of the Medical College of Wisconsin and Milos Grim, MD Ph.D., of Charles University Prague ......
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on December 10, 2004 03:40 AM
US National Public Radio discusses Stem Cell Research
Relatively comprehensive discussion of Stem Cell Research, relateing to California's Proposition 71 and Wisconsin and Minnisota focus' on research planning... Read On...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on December 9, 2004 08:18 AM
Embryonic stem cell funding battle brewing in Wisconsin
Wisconsin is the site of the original efforts to harvest embryonic stem cells for medical research. Now pro-life activists are battling the state's Democratic governor, Jim Doyle, over his plan to spend $375 million to advance the controversial scientific technique.........
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on November 30, 2004 11:49 AM
Stem Cell Leukemia Treatment
Thousands of adults with leukemia who can't find bone marrow donors could benefit from transplants of stem cells from umbilical cord blood. More and more research keeps looking deeper into medical solutions for cord blood stem cells.........
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on November 27, 2004 04:09 AM
Wisconsin gets in on the Stem Cell Funding trend
Wisconsin Govenor Jim Doyle also announced last week a plan to look at spending approximately $750 million on biotechnology and stem cell research over the next few years that would support the research institute on the University of Wisconsin-Madison. However,...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on November 24, 2004 08:46 AM