(WPTV) –Out at the Save the Chimps facility there’s usually a lot of noise, but one of the residents is very quiet, sedated in fact. Inside the VetMobile is Angie. She’s 25 and has a torn ACL. “With chimps we don’t want to do a lot of surgical work, put …
Cell surface protein GD2 blows potent tumor-generating cells' cover. The first single marker of breast cancer stem cells also is targetable by a drug in preclinical tests.
International Stem Cell Corporation today announced financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2012.
Embryonic stem cells just added another feather to its hat. According to a study published online on May 3, 2012 in the journal Molecular Cell if they suffer damage that makes them a threat to the developing embryo, they swiftly fall on their …
A long-standing dispute over embryonic stem cell research is likely to resurface during the general election race for candidates of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents.
SEBASTIAN — Toby, a 6-year-old golden retriever, loves to run and play catch. And Oreo, a 12-year-old border collie mix, also is a bundle of energy. Movement for both dogs got easier about a month ago when they received a revolutionary stem …
A New York Stem Cell Foundation ( NYSCF ) scientist has shown in new research that human embryonic stem cells can be used to grow bone tissue grafts for use in research and potential medical applications. Dr. Darja Marolt, an investigator at the NYSCF, is the lead author of the study, which was published this week in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences …
One of the biggest barriers to the development of new medical therapies is the cost of taking a new drug from a concept in a lab to a proven treatment. Estimates of these costs range from $100-million to $1.2-billion for each new drug that makes …
Stem cell banking companies are looking at aggressive marketing initiatives to move into the mass market segment. Direct marketing to customers and reduction in price tag for storing umbilical cord blood are on the cards.
The importance of funding work in ground-breaking stem cell research into deafness was highlighted by Dr Marcello Rivolta at a keynote charity event in London for Deafness Research UK. Dr Rivolta, Reader in Sensory Stem Cell Biology at the internationally …