Tag: Treatments
Hope, Science and Tomorrow: Stem Cell Research in 2009
In January, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the world's first human trials of a therapy derived from human embryonic stem cells. The...
Stem Cell Breakthrough By Mount Sinai Hospital Researcher
In a study to be released on March 1, 2009, Mount Sinai Hospital's Dr. Andras Nagy discovered a new method of creating stem cells...
Man receives therapy in China
HOYLETON — As a speech therapist who works in the King City and surrounding area, Kelly Melton knows how difficult it is to overcome...
Molecules Self-assemble To Provide New Therapeutic Treatments
ScienceDaily (Feb. 22, 2009) — Researchers in the laboratory of Samuel I. Stupp at Northwestern University have an interesting approach for tackling some major...
Stem cell ‘cure’ boy gets tumour
A boy treated with foetal stem cells for a rare genetic disease has developed benign tumours, raising questions about the therapy's safety.
The boy, now...
Hope for Restoring Injured Nerves
Biologists ID Gene, Pathway for Nerve Regeneration in Worms
University of Utah scientists identified a worm gene that is essential for damaged nerve cells to...
White House stem cell shift expected
A major shift in White House policy on stem cell research is expected when Barack Obama takes office.
The president-elect has been a strong supporter...
More on stem cell research
What are stem cells?
Stem cells have the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in the body. Serving as a sort of...
InVivo nears human trials of spine-injury treatment
Spinal cord injury treatment maker InVivo Therapeutics Corp. has successfully wrapped up preliminary primate studies and is now looking to secure funds to go...
Collaboration Between Burnham And HeadNorth
HeadNorth Foundation has pledged $975,000 to Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) to support cutting-edge stem cell research. The funding, part of HeadNorth's Chronic...
