NEWARK, Calif., Jan. 30, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — StemCells, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEM) today announced the publication of preclinical data demonstrating that its proprietary HuCNS-SC® cells (purified human neural stem cells) protect host …
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Jan 30, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (”ACT”; OTCBB: ACTC), a leader in the field of regenerative medicine, announced today that the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, the largest of the Grampian University …
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who is campaigning for votes in Tuesday's Florida primary, said he would ban all embryonic stem cell research and called for a commission to study the ethics of in vitro fertilization.
LUTZ, Fla. — As former House speaker Newt Gingrich courts evangelical voters in advance of Tuesday’s Florida primary, he is drawing an increasingly hard line against the use of embryonic stem-cell research — a position that contrasts not …
CHICAGO — Dr. Richard Fessler leaned over his patient’s back and sliced through skin, muscle and bone until he exposed the man’s spinal cord, crushed just days earlier in a motorcycle crash. He then inserted a syringe into the cable of nerves and …
Researchers at MIT and their colleagues said they have devised a way to produce liver-like cells from stem cells, a key step in studying why people respond differently to Hepatitis C.
A team of researchers at UC Davis has pioneered a technique to use stem cells to smother the genetic problem that causes Huntington’s disease. The findings, due in the journal Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, could pave the way for a …
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two legally blind women appeared to gain some vision after receiving an experimental treatment using embryonic stem cells, scientists reported last week. While embryonic stem cells were first isolated more than a decade ago …
Celebrated adult stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka will deliver a lecture, ‘New era of medicine with iPS cells', here on Monday as part of a three-city lecture series. Prof. Yamanaka's scientif…
What’s the Latest Development? Two legally blind California women report significant improvements in their vision months after an operation during which doctors injected stem cells into their eyes. Within six weeks of the test, one of the …