Stem Cells Research News
ESC: Bone Marrow Cells May Help Heal Hearts
STOCKHOLM -- Injecting autologous bone marrow stem cells directly into the hearts of patients with chronic heart failure appears to improve ventricular performance, quality of life, and survival, an open-label, nonrandomized study showed.
Justice Department to Appeal Stem Cell Ruling
WASHINGTON -- The Department of Justice announced it will appeal the temporary injunction that halted National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding of embryonic stem cell research.
NIH Chief 'Stunned' by Embryonic Stem Cell Ruling
WASHINGTON -- Francis Collins, MD, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said Tuesday that he was "stunned" by the preliminary injunction granted by a federal judge who ruled NIH funding of stem cell research violates federal law.
Court Blocks Funds for Stem Cell Research
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge ruled today that the Obama administration's plan to provide federal funds for research using embryonic stem cells violated a federal law that bars the use of government money to destroy human embryos.
Stalled Stem Cell Trial for Spine Injury Cleared Again
The on-again, off-again clinical trial of a human embryonic stem cell (hESC) therapy for spinal cord injury is on again, its sponsor said.
New Website Evaluates Stem Cell Claims
Patients seeking stem cell treatments for various conditions now have an online resource to help them evaluate the claims of clinics and companies around the world.
Stem Cells Return Sight to Burn-Damaged Eyes
Autologous stem cells can restore sight when ocular burns have destroyed the limbal cell layer that keeps the cornea clear, Italian researchers found.
Novel Stem Cells Could Offer MI Therapy
Stem cells derived from the human amniotic sac can become beating heart muscle cells, at least in rats, researchers said, offering the possibility of off-the-shelf stem cell therapy for heart attacks.
Vatican Enters Field of Adult Stem Cell Research
NEW YORK -- NeoStem, a biopharmaceutical company developing adult stem cell therapies, has entered into a collaboration with a division of the Vatican to raise awareness of and fund research into adult stem cells, which don't carry the ethical iss...
NIH Adds 13 Embryonic Stem Cell Lines to Approved List
The National Institutes of Health has approved nine new human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines for federally funded research, along with four others that had an earlier approval revoked after President Obama took office.
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Rabbits grow their own joint replacements
Rabbits implanted with artificial bones re-grew their own joints, complete with cartilage, researchers reported on Thursday.
Frozen blood a source of stem cells, study finds
Frozen blood from stored samples can be used to make cells resembling stem cells, researchers said on Thursday -- opening a potential new and easier source for the valued cells.
Vatican to finance adult stem cell research
The Vatican is pushing for research of adult stem cells as an alternative to the use of embryonic stem cells, which the Catholic Church opposes because it maintains that the destruction of the embryo amounts to the killing of human life.
Newsweek: Study finds problems with adult stem cells
Compared with specialized cells produced from the 25 lines of stem cells derived from embryos, those from the eight populations of induced pluripotent stem cells had significantly higher rates of death, higher rates of aging, and severely lower ra...
New stem cell lines OK'd for tax-paid research
A new era in embryonic stem cell research arrived as the U.S. government approved 13 batches of the master cells for a study using taxpayer dollars, with dozens more in the pipeline.
Scientists make cells that form eggs, sperm
U.S. researchers have found a way to coax human embryonic stem cells to turn into the types of cells that make eggs and sperm, shedding light on a stage of early human development that has not been fully understood.
Breast-feeding could save 1.3 million lives
Teaching new mothers how to breast-feed could save 1.3 million children's lives every year, but many women get no help and give up trying, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
Whole mice created from skin cells
Two teams of Chinese scientists have made a major advance in mice in the development of a new kind of stem cell that doesn't involve destroying embryos.
New cancer-killing method found in stem cells
Genetically engineered stem cells from bone marrow showed promise as a potential new way to deliver a cancer-killing protein to tumors, British researchers said on Tuesday.
New way to make stem cells discovered
Researchers have developed a new way to make embryonic-like stem cells by soaking them in genetically engineered proteins, a new step toward using ordinary cells to treat disease.
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