Topic: Stem Cell Research

Stem cells used to produce blood platelets

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Scientists have for the first time created blood platelet cells by reprogramming stem cells derived from adult cells, offering the potential for a renewable supply of the fragile blood component.Researchers at the Center for iPS Cell Research and ...

Insight: Stem cell therapy poised to come in from the cold

(Reuters) - A rogue surgeon injects stem cells from a fetus into a sick man's brain. The cells morph and form body parts. When the man dies, the pathologist finds cartilage, skin and bone clumped in his brain.The scene is not from ...

First US embryonic stem cell trial is halted

The first-ever trial using human embryonic stem cells to treat paralysis has been halted due to high costs, and the company will focus instead on new cancer treatments, Geron said Tuesday.The California-based biotech firm, which had bypassed federal funding to get its ...

Analysis: Stem cell research: win some, lose some

LONDON (Reuters) - A decision by one of the biggest names in stem cell research to throw in the towel will not stop other pioneering work that could yet produce cures for blindness and help mend broken hearts.Scientists were shocked by U.S. ...

EU court bars stem cell patents when embryos destroyed

LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - European law forbids patenting any process which involves removing a stem cell from and then destroying a human embryo, Europe's top court ruled on Tuesday, a judgment with deep ramifications on medical research.The ruling by the European Court of ...

New stem cell method makes functioning liver cells

LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have developed a new stem cell technique for growing working liver cells which could eventually avoid the need for costly and risky liver transplants.A team of researchers led by the Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge ...

Personalised stem cells back in the spotlight

Scientists on Wednesday said they had made strides in lab research in personalised stem cells, reviving interest in a goal clouded by fraud and ethical storms.Stem cells are primitive cells that differentiate into the various tissues of the body and are touted ...

Scientists use cloning to make human stem cells

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. scientists for the first time have used a cloning technique to get tailor-made embryonic stem cells to grow in unfertilized human egg cells, a landmark finding and a potential new flashpoint for opponents of stem cell research.The researchers ...

U.S. firm wins UK embryonic stem cell trial go-ahead

LONDON (Reuters) - British drug regulators have granted approval to Advanced Cell Technology to conduct the first trial in Europe of human embryonic stem cells, testing the cells in people with a progressive form of blindness, the firm said on Thursday.Massachusetts-based ACT ...
A US biotech company said Thursday it will soon begin the first-ever European trials using human embryonic stem cells in an experimental treatment for people with a form of juvenile blindness.The Massachusetts-based Advanced Cell Technology said the trials will involve 12 patients ...
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