Tag Archives: Stem Cells

Stem Cell Treatments in Europe – Are They Real?

It’s hard to get a good grasp on the quality of stem cell treatments in the world. There are so [...]

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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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China: “We Don’t Use Executed Prisoners for Organs…Not Anymore”

The Chinese government has many strengths, but I don’t think that international PR is one of them. In a report [...]

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Hungary Raids Illegal Stem Cell Treatment Center – Arrests Four

Cue up the theme to COPS, put on your muumuu, and get ready for another round of science behind bars. [...]

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Growing Mice From Stem Cells? The Real Story About The Stem Cell Breakthrough From Qi Zhou

Traditional media outlets have been tripping over each other this week with sensational titles such as “Chinese Scientists Reprogram Cells [...]

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Why Your Dog Is Getting Better Stem Cell Treatment Than You

If you like controversy there’s nothing that will bring you more joy than yelling “stem cell research” in a mixed [...]

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Stem Cells Used to Grow Hearts: Cool New Pics and Vid

When you’re heart is broken, you’ll do anything to fix it. Even replace it with a pig heart. Scientists at [...]

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Stem Cells Used to Grow Hearts: Cool Pics and Vid

When you’re heart is broken, you’ll do anything to fix it. Even replace it with a pig heart. Scientists at [...]

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Stem Cell Therapy Cures Corneal Blindness

Researchers at Australia’s University of New South Wales have used an elegant stem-cell based treatment to treat corneal opacity in 3 [...]

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Giving Your Kidneys a Makeover: Stem Cells Cure Nephritis

Once upon a time, if you had a failing organ, you could pretty much consider it a death sentence. Then [...]

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From Dolly to Injaz: The Cloning Revolution Takes Off

Dolly was so 90′s. Most of us are waiting for scientists to clone something awesome, like velociraptors or wholly mammoths… [...]

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Man Receives First US Double Hand Transplant

Ten years ago, Jeff Kepner lost both his hands and feet to a bacterial infection. Today, he is recovering from [...]

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A Clinical Cure for Blindness Using Stem Cells

Old age is bliss.  There’s a nest egg in the bank account and nothing needs to be done but spoil [...]

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Skin Cells Reprogrammed Into Beating Heart Tissue

Imagine a future when your aging organs – a failing liver, or a brain degenerated by Alzheimer’s disease – could [...]

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Stem Cell Therapy Must Continue In Spite of Cancer Setback

The first known report of a brain tumor resulting directly from neural stem cell therapy was published yesterday.  The report [...]

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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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With no Health Regulations to Stop Them Chinese Companies Take the Lead in Stem Cell Therapy

In the United States there are countless regulatory hurdles that must be overcome for new drugs and new medical treatments [...]

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