Tag: Stem Cells

U.S. Can Continue Stem-Cell Funding, Court Says

Scientists who use embryonic stem cells for research can continue to receive U.S. taxpayer funding while the government challenges a lower-court order that barred...

How injured nerves grow themselves back

Unlike nerves of the spinal cord, the peripheral nerves that connect our limbs and organs to the central nervous system have an astonishing ability...

Northwestern first site open for spinal cord stem cell trial

Northwestern Medicine is the first site open for enrollment in a national clinical research trial of a human embryonic stem cell-based therapy for...

Appeals court grants stay in stem cell case

The federal government will be allowed to keep funding stem cell research — for now. An Aug. 23 ruling by a U.S. District Court judge...

New Research Demonstrates Safety of Cord-blood-derived Stem Cell Treatments

Beike Biotechnology and Medistem, Inc. Report on 114 Patients Treated With Novel Cord Blood Stem Cell Protocol; New Approach Opens Door to Expanded Uses...

Animation of Stem Cells and a Spinal Cord Injury

This is a 3D animation of stem cells which heal a spinal cord injury.

First tests for stem cell therapy are near

Even as supporters of human embryonic stem cell research are reeling from last week's sudden cutoff of federal funding, another portentous landmark is quietly...

Effect on stem cell ruling on companies unclear

(Reuters) - Government officials say they will appeal a U.S. District Court injunction that stops new federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research. The...

Neuralstem files FDA application for first chronic spinal cord injury stem cell trial

Neuralstem, Inc. (NYSE Amex:CUR) announced that it has filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) application with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

Stem cell reversal: Ill Americans deserve better

District court judge blocks federal funding for embryonic stem cell research Just when you thought embryonic stem cell research would begin to show whether regenerating...