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Researchers induce Alzheimer’s neurons from pluripotent stem cells

January 26, 2012
biotech

University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers have, for the first time, created stem cell-derived, in vitro models …Read the Rest

UCF: “the first time this has ever been done with non-embryonic stem cells”

January 17, 2012
biotech

For the first time ever, UCF researchers have differentiated stem cells from umbilical cords into other types of cells, which …Read the Rest

Stem cell therapy reverses Type 1 diabetes

January 11, 2012
biotech

Type 1 diabetes is caused by the body’s own immune system attacking its pancreatic islet beta cells and requires daily …Read the Rest

Dose of progenitor cells make mice live longer and healthier

January 4, 2012
biotech

Mice bred to age too quickly seemed to have sipped from the fountain of youth after scientists at the University …Read the Rest

Combining human iPSCs with ZFN-driven gene correction to generate differentiated cell-based therapies

December 30, 2011
biotech

Sangamo BioSciences announced publication of a preclinical study demonstrating highly specific, functional correction of the alpha 1-antitrypsin (A1AT) gene defect in …Read the Rest

UCF patents iPS process

December 23, 2011
biotech

A process that prompts a single gene to generate millions of supercharged stem cells, which can then turn into any …Read the Rest

Second edition of “CELLebrity” Doctors Calendar

December 15, 2011
biotech

The Sabrina Cohen Foundation for Stem Cell Research has announced the formal launch of its 2012 CELLebrity Campaign and the …Read the Rest

Human embryonic stem cell lines diffucult to obtain

December 15, 2011
biotech

A survey of more than 200 human embryonic stem cell researchers in the US found that nearly 40% of researchers …Read the Rest

Bioheart completes IND application to the FDA

December 6, 2011
biotech

Bioheart has completed an Investigational New Drug (IND) application to the FDA for the ANGEL trial. The clinical protocol is …Read the Rest

Medically useful amounts of endoderm cells created from human pluripotent stem cells

December 2, 2011
biotech

Canadian scientists have overcome a key research hurdle to developing regenerative treatments for diabetes and liver disease with a technique …Read the Rest