Category Archive for "News for Researchers"

Survival of Neural Stem Cell Grafts In Lesioned Rat Spinal Cords Enhanced By Treadmill Locomotion (JNeurosci)

Posted in: News for Doctors, News for Researchers | September 17, 2014

(Seoul, Korea) The combination of cell transplantation and activity-based rehabilitation as therapy for spinal cord repair....

Accurexa Announces License For UCSF Brain Stem Cell Device (Bay Street)

Posted in: News for Industry, News for Researchers | September 17, 2014

(San Francisco, CA) The University of California, San Francisco announced that it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Accurexa, Inc for global licensing of a medical stereotactic...

Initial Six Teams to Compete for New Organ Liver Prize (PR Web)

Posted in: News for Doctors, News for Researchers | September 16, 2014

(Washington, DC) Global competition with a $1 million prize for the first team to create a bioengineered solution to survive without native liver function....

Scientists Create Therapy-Grade Stem Cells Using New Cocktail to Reprogram Adult Cells (Phys)

Posted in: News for Industry, News for Researchers | September 16, 2014

(Jerusalem, Israel) Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a new formulation that is highly effective in transforming adult stem cells into quality pluripotent stem cells....

Researchers Discover What Lies Behind the Death of Stem Cells (Imperial)

Posted in: News for Researchers | September 16, 2014

(London, England) Researchers identify small molecules called microRNA that play a key role in controlling the death and survival of pluripotent stem cells....

Denmark All Set For Human Stem-Cell Trials (CPH Post)

Posted in: News for Doctors, News for Patients, News for Researchers | September 15, 2014

(Copenhagen, Denmark) An advanced group of scientists will begin clinical trials using stem cells for a number of debilitating diseases....

Cleveland BioLabs Announces Approval to Start Phase 1 Study for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Mobilizer in Russian Federation (Market Wired)

Posted in: News for Industry, News for Researchers | September 15, 2014

(Buffalo, NY) Cleveland BioLabs Inc. receive approval from the Russian Ministry of health to begin phase 1 clinical trials for the induction and mobilization of hematopoietic stem cells....

World’s First AMD Stem Cell Therapy Patient (Optometry)

Posted in: News for Doctors, News for Patients, News for Researchers | September 15, 2014

(Kobe, Japan) IPS cells used to grow retinal tissue in a patient with age-related macular degeneration....

New Method to ‘Reset’ Human Stem Cells (Fierce Biotech Research)

Posted in: News for Researchers | September 14, 2014

(Cambridge, England) A scientist demonstrated technique for generating human pluripotent stem cells from adult stem cells....

Study Shows How Stem Cells Treat Lung Disease (Medical XPress)

Posted in: News for Doctors, News for Researchers | September 9, 2014

(Munich, Germany) The treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with stem cells to minimize inflammation....