stem cells

Feds ease restrictions on use of stem cells

Feds ease restrictions on use of stem cells

By Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post From SFGate.com Hundreds of embryonic stem cell lines, whose use in the United States had been curtailed by the Bush administration, can… Read more »

Scientists Find Differences in Embryonic Stem Cells and Reprogrammed Skin Cells

Scientists Find Differences in Embryonic Stem Cells and Reprogrammed Skin Cells

From Newswise.com UCLA researchers have found that embryonic stem cells and skin cells reprogrammed into embryonic-like cells have inherent molecular differences, demonstrating for the first time that… Read more »

New York Becomes First State To Allow Payment For Donating Eggs For Stem Cell Research

New York Becomes First State To Allow Payment For Donating Eggs For Stem Cell Research

From MedicalNewsToday.com New York’s Empire State Stem Cell Board earlier this month decided to allow embryonic stem cell researchers who receive state funding to compensate women for… Read more »

Hysterectomies Could Be Source of Stem Cells

Hysterectomies Could Be Source of Stem Cells

Researchers eye tissues that are normally discarded after surgery From health.usnews.com Fallopian tubes removed from fertile women of child-bearing age during hysterectomies or other procedures might prove… Read more »

Next Big Market: Adult Stem Cell Drugs and Therapies

Next Big Market: Adult Stem Cell Drugs and Therapies

Written by M.E.Garza, Biomedreports.com According to a new report in Fortune Magazine, marketable therapies emerging from work in the (less controversial) adult stem space could be the… Read more »

Placentas could be an important source of stem cells to fight disease

Placentas could be an important source of stem cells to fight disease

By Sandy Kleffman, Contra Costa Times The human placenta could be an important source of stem cells for curing leukemia, sickle cell disease and other blood-related disorders,… Read more »

Stem cells put to test as treatment for diabetes

Stem cells put to test as treatment for diabetes

By Elizabeth Simpson, elizabeth.simpson@pilotonline.com, The Virginian-Pilot Sarah Piscitelli had barely gotten used to the idea she had an incurable disease – diabetes – before she was sitting… Read more »