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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 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. |
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 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. |
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 January 31, 2011 Brian Orelli |
Time to Buy Into Stem Cells? New developments bring this analyst a step closer to opening his wallet. |
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. |
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 Arlene Weintraub |
A Boost for Broken Hearts? The Institute of Regenerative Medicine in Barbados is convinced that stem cells from fetuses can repair cardiac damage. |
The Motley Fool May 3, 2005 Charly Travers |
Is Geron a Rule Breaker? At the forefront of stem cell research, can the company live up to its lofty potential? Geron's science is hot. Its stock is not. |
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. |
Scientific American January 17, 2007 Charles Q. Choi |
A Stroke for Stem Cells The brain becomes a target in stem cell clinical trials. |
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. |
Scientific American July 2008 Sally Lehrman |
Dolly's Creator Moves Away from Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cells Like many stem cell pioneers, Ian Wilmut, the creator of Dolly the sheep, has jumped to an alternative approach. Is this the beginning of the end for embryonic cloning? |
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. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams |
Young Again Niche cells can reverse the aging of stem cells. |
BusinessWeek June 27, 2005 Arlene Weintraub |
Stem Cells To Go ViaCell's goal is to mass-produce stem cells from umbilical cord blood. |
BusinessWeek February 12, 2007 Bruce Einhorn |
Stem-Cell Refugees Americans are flocking to China for therapy. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 Richard Saltus |
T-Cell Booster Kits A bioengineer remodels cell surfaces to prod the immune system. |
Popular Mechanics January 28, 2010 Cassie Rodenberg |
Next-Gen Transplant Techniques Can Stop Organ Rejection About 77 organ transplants are performed each day in the U.S., and more than 101,000 people are on a wait list for body parts such as hearts, skin and veins, according to the Mayo Clinic. |
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. |
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 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. |
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 |
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. |
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 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 |
Popular Mechanics November 27, 2007 Alex Hutchinson |
Stem Cells 2.0: Beyond the Hype, Engineers Look to Build Fast Engineers play the important role of making lab bench discoveries reproducible and efficient for use in industry. |
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. |
Chemistry World February 4, 2011 Harriet Brewerton |
Transplant tracking Magnetic nanoparticles could be used to track neural stem cells after a transplant in order to monitor how the cells heal spinal injuries, say UK scientists. |
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 August 9, 2010 Jim Mueller |
3 Stocks to Play Biotech Three promising ideas for investing in this exciting area. |
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 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. |
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. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams |
Lab-Grown Liver New cell culture system solves problem of growing liver cells. |
The Motley Fool September 29, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Careful What You Wish For, Stem Cell Investors Investors seem to have forgotten about fundamentals. |
BusinessWeek December 6, 2004 Catherine Arnst |
Cord Blood To The Rescue A study in the Nov. 25 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine confirms that stem cells in blood extracted from the umbilical cords of newborns can help leukemia patients |
Reactive Reports Issue 64 David Bradley |
Stem to Sperm New research shows that stem cells from human bone marrow can be converted into early-stage sperm. The discovery could lead to novel fertility treatments in the long-term. |
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 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. |
Salon.com December 29, 2000 Arthur Allen |
Will Thompson, Bush clash over human embryo research? The HHS nominee supports it, but right-to-lifers want it stopped.... |
BusinessWeek January 10, 2005 Bruce Einhorn |
Asia Is Stem Cell Central Singapore isn't the only country in the region trying to profit from the U.S. restrictions. Australia, China, India, Japan, and South Korea all see stem cell research as a way to get ahead in biotech. |
Scientific American March 2007 Alison Snyder |
Sight for Sore Eyes Having generated a cell source and overcome the safety concerns associated with transplanting stem cells, researchers still face possibly their biggest challenge: showing that the transplanted photoreceptors wire up to other neurons that eventually connect to the optic nerves. |
Chemistry World July 22, 2010 Mike Brown |
Microspheres help restore eyesight Polymer microspheres could deliver stem cells to the eyes of patients whose sight has been destroyed by age-related macular degeneration to repair the damage and enable them to see clearly again, say researchers in the UK. |
Bio-IT World April 2006 |
Virtual Stem Cell Laboratory Goes Live Children's Hospital in Boston's Virtual Stem Cell Laboratory web site allows online visitors to manipulate and investigate a "living" culture of embryonic stem cells. |
Reason October 2001 Ronald Bailey |
Blastocyst Brouhaha Which human cells count as people? |
Salon.com August 21, 2000 Lori B. Andrews |
Embryos under the knife The latest reproductive technology is just the next step on our sprint toward human cloning. |
Reason July 2005 Ronald Bailey |
Censored Science Speaking out on stem cells: The Washington Post noted that even President Bush's handpicked NIH director, Elias Zerhouni, may not be on board with administration's stem cell policy. |
Bio-IT World August 2005 Maureen McDonough |
U.K. Framework Offers Stem Cells a Future The United Kingdom has managed to cut through the noise surrounding stem cell research, creating a regulatory framework that fosters an environment of international collaboration and excellent R&D programs. And they try to do it all in an ethical way. |
Chemistry World February 23, 2015 Phillip Broadwith |
Europe approves stem cell therapy A stem cell treatment for severe cornea damage has been granted conditional approval by the European commission. |