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The Motley Fool
November 9, 2004
Charly Travers |
Are Stem Cells a Rule Breaker? Does the science offer real hope or just hype? Biotech investors take on enough risk in the normal course of drug development that they do not need to worry about whether or not the underlying technology even works.   |
The Motley Fool
July 26, 2004
Brian Gorman |
Stem Cell Researcher a Risk Geron could benefit from a new U.S. president, but in the end, studies of embryonic stem cells may or may not yield breakthroughs, so buying their stock now would be a gamble. |
The Motley Fool
August 27, 2007
Brian Orelli |
Repairing a Broken Heart Stem cells may be the new cure. If research continues on track, Geron expects to ask FDA to start clinical trials late next year or in early 2009. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2010
Brian Orelli |
Back in Love With Geron Investors' love / hate relationship with Geron is back in the worship phase, with the stem cells company up 17% on Friday and nearly an additional 10% or so today. |
The Motley Fool
November 15, 2011
Brian Orelli |
When Giving Up Is a Good Move in Biotech Geron calls it quits with stem cells. |
The Motley Fool
January 31, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Time to Buy Into Stem Cells? New developments bring this analyst a step closer to opening his wallet. |
The Motley Fool
October 12, 2010
Travis Hoium |
Geron Shares Popped: What You Need to Know Geron shares jumped 10% after the company announced that its first patient has enrolled in the company's stem cell clinical trial. |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2010
Jim Mueller |
3 Stocks to Play Biotech Three promising ideas for investing in this exciting area. |
The Motley Fool
January 20, 2012
Dan Caplinger |
Can Geron Recover in 2012? Let's look at this year's prospects for this company. |
The Motley Fool
September 29, 2010
Brian Orelli |
Careful What You Wish For, Stem Cell Investors Investors seem to have forgotten about fundamentals. |
The Motley Fool
October 19, 2009
Rich Smith |
This Just In: Upgrades and Downgrades Merriman Curhan Ford thinks Geron could as much as double off today's price, primarily in response to successful data on GRN163L, a treatment that targets cancer agent telomerase. |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2007
Brian Orelli |
A Stem-Cell Primer Public funding from states could help companies doing stem cell research. Read about Geron, StemCells, Osiris Therapeutics, ViaCell and Invitrogen, companies that may profit from the increased public spending. |
BusinessWeek
September 23, 2010
Rob Waters |
Stem Cells That Save Big Pharma a Bundle Drugmakers hope to save big by using stem cells to test drugs for dangerous side effects long before costly human trials are needed. |
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2010
Brian Orelli |
The Mice Can Walk! Remember you're essentially buying a lottery ticket investing in this or any other unproven early stage biomedical technology. |
Bio-IT World
Dec 2005/Jan 2006
Maureen McDonough |
The Century of the Cell Like most new life science industries, the stem cell business landscape looks like a maze. There are many paths, turns, and dead-ends, but it is quite possible that there will be more than one route to the finish line. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
October 1, 2012
Ben Comer |
Stem Cells: A Promise Deferred? Ideology, politics, and a stilted political debate may be causing pharma to overlook the potential of emerging stem cell therapies in fostering a new generation of cures. |
The Motley Fool
December 1, 2008
Brian Orelli |
Obama Can't Save Stem Cell Companies While government-sponsored research on embryonic stem cells might eventually help scientists better understand all stem cells, it's not likely to help the companies right now. |
The Motley Fool
December 23, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Geron's Hurry-Up-and-Wait Strategy Clinical trials started, now the waiting begins. |
The Motley Fool
December 22, 2009
Brian Orelli |
Pfizer Swings for the Fences A long shot, but at least it's cheap. Pfizer seems to have taken a particular liking to stem cells, having established a unit to study them last year |
The Motley Fool
April 14, 2008
Brian Orelli |
Stem Cells Show Off The FDA moves closer to setting up stem cell clinical trials, setting guidelines that put treatment safety first and foremost. |
The Motley Fool
November 28, 2007
Brian Orelli |
Stem Your Expectations of Stem-Cell Discoveries Making "stem" cells out of skin cells isn't all it's cracked up to be. The recent discovery has a long way to go before it can catch up to the research currently being done with stem cells. |
The Motley Fool
May 2, 2011
Brian Orelli |
StemCells Up for All the Right Reasons Federal funding doesn't matter for most stem cell companies. |
The Motley Fool
February 2, 2005
Rich Duprey |
Aastrom to Leap Into Trials The biotech firm advances to the next stage of clinical studies in stem cell research. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
November 3, 2009
Rich Smith |
This Just In: Upgrades and Downgrades Needham suspends clinical trial of buying Geron. |
BusinessWeek
July 26, 2004
Arlene Weintraub |
The Stem-Cell Flap: Simmer Down Advocates are overstating stem cells' near-term ability to treat grave illnesses. In doing so, they not only distort the science; the hopes they raise among many people who are sick today are also sure to be dashed. |
The Motley Fool
October 14, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Baby Breaker Birth Announcements We track the week in private equity in search of investments of the future. Virxsys... Raven Biotechnologies... |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
Biotech, Finally The past 30 years of biological discoveries, insights into the human genome, and exotic chemical manipulation have unleashed a wave of biological drugs, many of them reengineered human proteins. |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2009
Brian Orelli |
A Less-Risky Stem Cell Play Life Technologies is a clear leader in stem cell reagents. |
Scientific American
January 17, 2007
Charles Q. Choi |
A Stroke for Stem Cells The brain becomes a target in stem cell clinical trials. |
The Motley Fool
November 14, 2008
Brian Orelli |
Pfizer Takes the Plunge Into Stem-Cell Research The world's largest drugmaker by market cap announced today that it's forming a unit to focus on stem cells. |
The Motley Fool
November 2, 2004
Charly Travers |
Biotech's 5-Baggers: Part 3 Year after year, the hottest biotech companies with investors are those with drugs in development for the treatment of cancer. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Future Cures Almost every disease known to man is under constant research and we can hardly go a day without hearing about some advancement or another. Here are a few diseases for which future cures could be looming on the horizon. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2005
Travers & Mock |
Stock Madness 2005: Geron vs. UTStarcom Biotech faces off against telecom in this contest based loosely on the annual NCAA College Basketball Tournament, a.k.a. March Madness. -- which company gets your vote? |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2004
Rich Smith |
Breaking Rules and Saving Lives Cord blood offers an ethical means of using stem cells to heal illness. While two top companies in the field are private, over the counter traded Cryo-Cell lost as much money as it collected in revenues last year. |
The Motley Fool
July 22, 2005
Karl Thiel |
Cancer Drug: A Shot at Success Cancer vaccine pioneer Dendreon delivered news yesterday that its investors have been anxiously awaiting: final three-year survival data from a phase 3 study of Provenge, the company's flagship prostate cancer vaccine. |
The Motley Fool
June 21, 2005
Brian Gorman |
Stem Cell Chatter Despite the promise suggested by early studies, embryonic stem cell research remains highly speculative. More concrete results, not the amount of cash being poured into research, are the best basis for investing decisions. |
Scientific American
December 2008
Tim Hornyak |
Turning Back the Cellular Clock: A Farewell to Embryonic Stem Cells? Shinya Yamanaka discovered how to revert adult cells to an embryonic state. These induced pluripotent stem cells might soon supplant their embryonic cousins in therapeutic promise |
The Motley Fool
December 8, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
Has Geron Become the Perfect Stock? Geron has a modest pipeline of cancer drugs, including imetelstat, which is currently in phase 2 clinical trials. |
BusinessWeek
January 23, 2006
Arlene Weintraub |
A "Body Blow" To Stem Cell Research Funding for stem cell research in the U.S. wasn't so hot even before the Korean scandal broke. |
BusinessWeek
May 24, 2004
Arlene Weintraub |
Repairing The Engines Of Life Can research into stem cells and other advanced techniques heal ailing hearts and brains? U.S. labs are hamstrung by the federal government. |
The Motley Fool
October 3, 2007
Brian Orelli |
Big Pharma Loves Your Liver Three big pharma companies, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, and Roche, are funding a stem-cell consortium. Investors, take note. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Bettering Ourselves Through Biotech: Greater Productivity, Sharper Memories, Hair Feathers Beefing up muscle without steroids or hormones; rejuvenating damaged skin and heart tissue; ratcheting up memory function. Therapies that promise to enhance human abilities are nearing the marketplace. Funding, however, is hard to come by these days. |
BusinessWeek
June 27, 2005
Arlene Weintraub |
Stem Cells To Go ViaCell's goal is to mass-produce stem cells from umbilical cord blood. |
BusinessWeek
August 26, 2010
Tom Randall |
Cocktails Are Next For Cancer-Drug Makers Taking a cue from the cocktails of drugs that have made AIDS survivable, drugmakers are pursuing combination therapies against cancer. |
BusinessWeek
May 24, 2004
Arlene Weintraub |
Want To Bank Your Own Stem Cells? One Los Angeles startup believes everyone should, to be ready when regenerative therapies start hitting the market |
Chemistry World
December 8, 2015
Liisa Niitsoo |
A sound idea for treating lung disease Scientists in Australia have made a portable device that gently vibrates stem cells with sound waves to turn them into an aerosol. The system could be an effective route for treating various pulmonary diseases. |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2011
Brian Orelli |
4 Immunotherapies to Watch Just don't go all-in. |
BusinessWeek
May 27, 2010
Pettypiece & Gibson |
Training the Immune System to Fight Cancer Bristol-Myers' new melanoma drug may be a "game changer." |
Inc.
February 2005
Patrick J. Sauer |
The State of Stem Cell Research Californians are hoping that stem cell research will do for them what the invention of the car did for Michigan. |
The Motley Fool
April 3, 2006
Seth Jayson |
No Stemming the Flow of Shares Another year, another large dollop of shares to water down the juice at StemCells. This company excels at burning money, as its cash flow statements show. Invest accordingly. |
