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ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd. (OTCBB: IMUC) (IMUC), a biotechnology company, today announced that the company has identified new peptide candidates that may significantly expand the potential target patient population for the company’s cancer stem cell vaccine product candidate, ICT-121. Many cancer therapies are limited by their ability to be used only in patients with certain human leukocyte antigen (HLA) types.

Walking, smiling and fidgeting, 3-year-old Dallas Hextell has become a poster child for the promise of stem cell therapy, a cutting edge treatment approach that may one day heal diseases such as diabetes, brain injury and Parkinson’s disease.

SANTA CRUZ — Scientists at UC Santa Cruz celebrated the opening of a new campus stem cell center with a symposium Wednesday to showcase their newest research.

Additionally, the motor neurons derived from the iPS cells appeared to be similar in function and efficiency to those derived from human embryonic stem cells, although further testing needs to be done to confirm that. If the similarities are …

California’s stem-cell agency will stick to its plan of incurring debt by selling bonds to private investors despite an agreement hashed out by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislative leaders aimed at plugging a $42 billion shortfall over 17 months in the state’s budget, an official for the agency said last week.

WITH the aim of providing a forum to discuss the latest developments in stem cell research, Qatar Foundation is organising a workshop on March 16 featuring some of the world’s top scientists.

CallMiner, the leader in enterprise speech analytics solutions, today announced that Cord Blood Registry® (CBR®), the global leader in the collection and preservation of newborn stem cells from umbilical cord blood, has completed implementation of …

Los Angeles, CA (LifeNews.com) — One of the alternatives to the use of embryonic stem cells has made another advance and, this time, induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, have yielded nerve cells. Researchers made a type of nerve cells from …

A shift in the political winds could bring the controversial, but potentially lifesaving, practice of embryonic stem cell research to The Scripps Research Institute’s new Palm Beach County campus. California-based Scripps was recruited by former Gov …

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