Guidelines for broader stem cell research unveiled
By Saundra Young, CNN.com The Obama administration released a draft of guidelines for federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research Friday. Under the new guidelines, federal… Read more »
UW researchers find safer way to reprogram cells
By Mark Johnson of the Journal Sentinel Having mastered the ability to roll back a cell’s clock to its embryonic origin, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison… Read more »
Bedford researcher IDs genes separating adult, embryonic stem cells
By Marc Songini, MassHighTech.com Scientists at the Bedford Research Foundation (BRF) believe they may have discovered the key genetic differences between embryonic stem cells and adult stem… Read more »
Early Stem Cell Mutation Linked To Autism
From Oneindia.in A breakthrough study on mice has shown that mutations in neural stem cell development may be linked to autism. Reported in the Proceedings of the… Read more »
Obama Issues Executive Order To Lift Some Federal Restrictions On Embryonic Stem Cell Research
President Obama on Monday at an event with Democratic and Republican lawmakers is expected to announce that he will reverse restrictions put in place by former President… Read more »
Creating Embryonic Stem Cell Lines
Brought to you by http://www.AllThingsScience.com/ The inner cell mass (ICM) cells of blastocyst-stage early human embryos can be removed and cultured. These cells can be grown in… Read more »
Geron gets FDA OK for embryonic stem-cell based therapy
From BizJournals.com The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted clearance of an investigational new drug application that lets Geron Corp. move forward with the world’s first… Read more »