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Technique Enables Efficient Gene Splicing in Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Technique Enables Efficient Gene Splicing in Human Embryonic Stem CellsThursday, 13 August 2009A novel technique allows researchers to efficiently and precisely modify or introduce genes into the genomes of human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and induc...
Two Lines Account for Most Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Two Lines Account for Most Human Embryonic Stem Cell ResearchFriday, 07 August 2009For the past eight years, scientists who wanted to use federal funds for research on human embryonic stem cells had to restrict their studies to 21 cell lines approved...
What Makes Stem Cells Tick?
Researchers identify phosphorylated signalling proteins in human embryonic stem cellsThursday, 06 August 2009Investigators at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) and The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have made the first comparati...
microRNA Regulates Pluripotency in Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Scientists shed light on inner workings of human embryonic stem cellsThursday, 30 April 2009Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have made a significant discovery in understanding the way human embryonic stem cells function.They explain nature's way of con...
Proposed NIH Stem Cell Guidelines Dismay Leading Stanford Researcher
Irving Weissman think therapeutic cloning should be allowedMonday, 20 April 2009The director of stem cell research at the Stanford University School of Medicine says he is troubled by draft guidelines issued today by the National Institutes of Health...
Creating Ideal Neural Cells for Clinical Use
New protocol quickly and efficiently differentiates human ESCs into committed neural precursor cellsTuesday, 14 April 2009Investigators at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have developed a protocol to rapidly differentiate human e...
Human Embryonic Stem Cells Make Complex Oral Tissue
Tissue engineering principles used to produce complex oral-lining tissues from hESCsSaturday, 04 April 2009Human embryonic stem cells (hESC) provide a potentially unlimited source of oral mucosal tissues that may revolutionize the treatment of oral d...
Protein Key to Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation
Burnham scientists identify protein that controls differentiation in human and mouse embryonic stem cellsWednesday, 18 March 2009Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have learned that a protein called Shp2 plays a critica...
Obama Reverses Bush’s Stem Cell Policy
Ceremony in the White House overturns the 8-year-old Bush ban on federal support for stem cell researchMonday, 09 March 2009President Barack Obama, at a ceremony in the East Room at White House today, overturned the 8-year-old Bush ban on federal sup...
How Stem Cells Develop Into Blood Cells
The pathway works by organizing the cells so that they can respond to signals for blood developmentSaturday, 07 March 2009Scientists of the McMaster Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute have discovered how messages sent within stem cells through a...
Obama to Reverse Embryonic Stem Cell Ban
Signing of an executive order planned for MondaySaturday, 07 March 2009President Obama's decision to lift restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, scheduled to be announced Monday, White House officials said Friday. It i...
Electrically Active Motor Neurons Made from iPS Cells
Discovery demonstrates the feasibility of using iPS-derived motor neurons to model and treat diseasesWednesday, 25 February 2009Stem cells scientists at UCLA showed for the first time that human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells can be differentia...
Scientists See Progress in FDA Stem Cell Trial Approval
ISSCR Cautions Clinical Research Still at an Early StageTuesday, 27 January 2009The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) shares in the excitement generated by the US Food and Drug Administration‘s landmark decision to approve the fi...
Geron Get FDA Clearance for First Test of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapy
Geron to Study GRNOPC1 in Patients with Acute Spinal Cord InjuryFriday, 23 January 2009Geron Corporation announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted clearance of the company's Investigational New Drug (IND) application ...
Stem Cells Drug Testing Predicted to Boom under Obama
Stem Cells Drug Testing Predicted to Boom under ObamaThursday, 18 December 2008Embryonic stem cells could provide a new way of testing drugs for dangerous side effects, according to a leading British researcher.Speaking at the British Pharmacological...
ISSCR: New Guidelines for Stem Cell Therapies
Regulation needed as new study reveals clinics exaggerate claims and omit risksThursday, 04 December 2008Today, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), the world's leading professional organization of stem cell researchers, released...
ALS Model from Human ESCs II
A novel human stem cell-based model of ALS opens doors for rapid drug screeningWednesday, 03 December 2008Long thought of as mere bystanders, astrocytes are crucial for the survival and well-being of motor neurons, which control voluntary muscle move...
ALS Model from Human ESCs I
Motor neurons derived from human embryonic stem cells provide insight into ALSWednesday, 03 December 2008Two new research studies use motor neurons derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to demonstrate that multiple toxic pathways contribute...
