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Financial Priorities Force Geron To End Human Trials For Promising Stem Cell Treatment

The promise of future stem cell treatments just took a significant hit. Biopharmaceutical trailblazer Geron Corporation just called it quits as [...]

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Geron’s Embryonic Stem Cell Trials Get First Patient

Good news for stem cell therapies. The first clinical trial using human embryonic stem cells (hESC) in the United States [...]

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Geron Restarts Embryonic Stem Cell Clinical Trials for Spinal Cord Injury

Almost a year after the FDA halted the study, Geron‘s clinical trial for a human embryonic stem cell (hESC) therapy [...]

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Watch This 5 Minute Video Explain Why Stem Cell Research Has to Take so Long.

Hans Keirstead used embryonic stem cells to help paralyzed rats walk again. His research is the basis for the first [...]

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Geron Explains Why First Embryonic Stem Cell Clinical Trial is Stalled

As if waiting for eight years wasn’t bad enough, we could see another few months pass before the first clinical [...]

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Geron CEO Speaks About the Promise of Stem Cell Therapy, Great Damage Done By Bush Presidency

We just uncovered this awesome 3 minute video of Geron CEO Thomas Okarma explaining the promise of stem cell therapy [...]

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FDA OKs 1st Embryonic Stem Cell Trial for Geron, Stock Skyrockets

The first clinical human trial using embryonic stem cells as a medical treatment in the United States has been approved [...]

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