Tag: Stem Cells
SCI Stem Cell Clinical Trial Awarded $25 Million Dollars
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has recently awarded $25 million dollars to “the first clinical trial based on cells derived from human...
Germany shuts down stem cell clinic
BERLIN, May 10 (UPI) -- German authorities say they've closed down a controversial clinic offering unproven stem cell treatments for a variety of physical...
Nation’s Second Participant Enrolls in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Trial
CHICAGO & MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Researchers at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC)...
Spinal Cord Injury Stem Cell Trial Gets $25 Million Award From CIRM
A human embryonic stem cell Phase I Trial for patients with spinal cord injury is to get a $25 million award from the California...
Stem cells 101
My heart goes out to patients and families waiting for effective treatments and cures.
I, too, have been waiting, and actively working toward a cure...
StemCells, Inc. Initiates World’s First Neural Stem Cell Trial in Spinal Cord Injury
StemCells, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEM) announced today the initiation of a Phase I/II clinical trial of its proprietary HuCNS-SC(R) human neural stem cells in chronic spinal...
Scientists focus on human cells for spinal cord injury repair
Washington, March 3 : Scientists have found that a specific type of human cell, generated from stem cells and transplanted into spinal cord injured...
Researchers pioneer clinical trial of embryonic stem cells
For the first time, researchers are using embryonic stem cells in a clinical trial to treat patients with spinal cord injuries. The trial strives...
Researchers discover that stem cell marker regulates synapse formation
Among stem cell biologists there are few better-known proteins than nestin, whose very presence in an immature cell identifies it as a “stem cell,”...
Stanford joins first embryonic-stem-cell therapy clinical trial
(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford is now part of the first clinical trial of cells derived from human embryonic stem cells. The trial will enroll up...
