Category Archives: Stem Cell Therapy

StemCells, Inc., said today it has applied for as much as $40 million in funding from the California stem cell agency for two projects dealing with Alzheimer’s disease and cervical spinal cord injury. The announcement came in a news release … Continue reading →

The California stem cell agency is spending $2.4 million a year on lawyers, a figure that one agency director has described as “awfully bloated.” More than one dollar out of every ten that CIRM spends on its operations goes for … Continue reading →

The California stem cell agency is in the midst of making significant changes in its lending regulations, but says it is not part of an effort to transfer a $25 million loan to Geron to another company. That does not mean, … Continue reading →

A “special advisor” to the $3 billion California stem cell agency has been nominated to the board of directors of Sangamo BioSciences, Inc., a firm that is sharing in a $14.5 million grant from the state research enterprise. She is … Continue reading →

A key panel of directors of the $3 billion California stem cell agency yesterday voted unanimously to retain full public disclosure of the financial interests of its directors and top executives. The director’s Governance Subcommittee bypassed a proposal that would … Continue reading →

The California stem cell agency today unveiled initial details of how it plans to run its $30 million bank of reprogrammed adult stem cells. The proposed regulations are the first step this year in the $3 billion agency’s project to … Continue reading →

Executives of Advanced Cell Technology, which has been repeatedly rejected for funding by the $3 billion California stem cell agency, will participate this week in the agency’s Internet “webinar” on research involving the human eye. ACT, which is engaged in … Continue reading →

Patent covers all mammalian liver stem cells, including human cellsAtlanta, Georgia (PRWEB) April 26, 2012 MissionIR would like to highlight VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCBB: VSTA), focused on applying stem cell technology for drug rescue and cell therapy. Drug rescue combines … Continue reading →

The effectiveness of using NSCs, which originate from the central nervoussystem, to treat brain tumors has been investigated in previous studies. This is the first study that demonstrates that iPS cell-derived NSCs couldalso target tumors outside the central nervous system, … Continue reading →

A few small molecules that control gene expression can repair the scar tissue in a mouse’s damaged heart. The technique could translate into human therapy for heart attack patients and others.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?ei=UTF-8&p=IPS+stem+cells+therapy&eo=UTF-8

KOLKATA: Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, who is expecting a baby, has said she will store her child's stem cells.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?ei=UTF-8&p=stem+cells&eo=UTF-8

The war with pharmaceutical companies, who have been accused of having a not-so-secret understanding with the FDA and the HHS, is, if it is so, a scandal so vast, so deeply ingrained in corruption . . .Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?ei=UTF-8&p=stem+cells&eo=UTF-8

LOS ANGELES — Can one feel too attached? Does one need to let go in order to mature? Neural stem cells have this problem too.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?ei=UTF-8&p=stem+cells&eo=UTF-8