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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
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. |
Popular Mechanics
December 16, 2008
Michael Milstein |
Bringing Stem Cells to War: Meet the Blood Pharmers Fresher blood is better than stale: It carries more oxygen and, when transfused into patients, speeds recovery. |
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 |
Scientific American
November 2005
Charles Q. Choi |
Baby to Brain Mothers could literally always have their kids on their minds. Researchers find that in mice, cells from fetuses can migrate into a mother's brain and apparently develop into nervous system cells. |
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
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Jim Schnabel |
Oxygen on the Brain An ancient cellular program to protect cells when oxygen is low seems crucial for the production of new brain cells. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
June 27, 2005
Arlene Weintraub |
Stem Cells To Go ViaCell's goal is to mass-produce stem cells from umbilical cord blood. |
Scientific American
January 17, 2007
Charles Q. Choi |
A Stroke for Stem Cells The brain becomes a target in stem cell clinical trials. |
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
May 26, 2009
Brian Orelli |
A Less-Risky Stem Cell Play Life Technologies is a clear leader in stem cell reagents. |
Scientific American
January 2009
Charles Q. Choi |
Do White Blood Cells Make Cancer Deadly? The ability to spread underlies the killing power of cancer. The process occurs, John Pawelek thinks, when tumor cells fuse with white blood cells -- an idea that, if right, could yield new therapies |
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. |
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 |
Scientific American
September 19, 2005
Charles Q. Choi |
Chatting Up Cells Stem cells can transform into whatever cell the body tells them to. Unfortunately, scientists have yet to master that particular gift of gab. But investigators may soon crack the language with tiny "chat rooms" for stem cells. |
| AskMen.com |
Synthetic Sperm Created British scientists claimed Wednesday to have created human sperm from stem cells, but other experts questioned their data. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011
Richard Saltus |
T-Cell Booster Kits A bioengineer remodels cell surfaces to prod the immune system. |
Technology Research News
June 29, 2005
Eric Smalley |
Cell combo yields blood vessels Researchers experiment with methods of getting blood vessels to grow in replacement organs before the tissue is placed in the body. |
Fast Company
March 2009
Tim McKeough |
Banking Stem Cells For Future Use A personal banking system for stem cells. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2012
Nicole Kresge |
Now You See It, Now You Don't A disappearing receptor could hold the key to beta-cell growth and insulin production. |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Men And Skin Cancer Men are three times more likely to develop skin cancer than women. While that's not breaking news, scientists have struggled to figure out the reason why men are more susceptible, and there appears to be a breakthrough. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010
Richard Saltus |
Three-Dimensional Cell Cultures Thinking big but starting small, Sangeeta Bhatia is closing in on her ambitious goal: growing human livers in the lab from scratch. |
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. |
Chemistry World
August 15, 2007
John Bonner |
Chemists Claim Biological Alchemy South Korean chemists say they have turned muscle cells from the sole of a human foot into something akin to stem cells, using a simple molecule called neurodazine. |
Chemistry World
April 2, 2009
Michael Gross |
Light-guided hydrogels direct cell growth Researchers in the US have developed a gel-like material whose structural and chemical properties can change in response to laser light |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2007
Morgen E. Peck |
Imperceptible Vibrations Slow Weight Gain New research by engineers and scientists show how low-level mechanical signals inhibit fat-cell production in mice. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010
Mitch Leslie |
Immune System Defects Can Cause Obsessive Behavior A shortage of certain immune cells might prompt obsessive-compulsive disorder. |
Reason
October 2001
Ronald Bailey |
Blastocyst Brouhaha Which human cells count as people? |
Pharmaceutical Executive
August 1, 2008
Patrick Clinton |
Salute to the Murines What can we say about modern medicine? The answer, of course, is that it's brilliant at curing the ailments of mice. |
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. |
Fast Company
March 2008
Elizabeth Svoboda |
Eureka? Alan Trounson, the new president of California's stem-cell agency, talks about the science, the opposition, and his qualms about working with embryos. |
Wired
January 2003
Charles C. Mann |
The First Cloning Superpower Inside China's race to become the clone capital of the world. |
The Motley Fool
July 23, 2007
Brian Lawler |
Acquisitive Ways Paying Off for Genzyme A recently acquired drug yields positive study results. Genzyme investors, take note. |
Scientific American
September 2008
Melinda Wenner |
Rethinking the Wrinkling: Key Genes Cause Aging Key genes, rather than cell and DNA damage, as causes of aging. |
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
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. |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Balding And Stem Cells While many men just write baldness off as a hereditary hurdle, a new study has offered a thread of hope. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010
Lawrence Goldstein |
Hear from the author of "Stem Cells for Dummies" The author, an investigator at the University of California, San Diego, is reaching out beyond policymakers in an unorthodox way. He's co-written Stem Cells for Dummies. |
Chemistry World
December 22, 2015
Suzanne Howson |
Re-seeding hairlines with stem cells Scientists have developed a way to treat hair loss using stem cells. The cells are enclosed within a cytokine-containing layer that circumvents the difficulties in regenerating new hair follicles on bald skin. |
Scientific American
August 2007
Thania Benios |
Updates: Whatever Happened to...? Quantum cryptography can be hacked... Lycopene does not appear to prevent prostate cancer as once hoped... Otzi Iceman's cause of death identified... Transplants for diabetes... |
Salon.com
July 17, 2000
Alix Christie |
The cord-blood controversy First we were supposed to eat the placenta. Now we're supposed to freeze it. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Nourishing Neural Stem Cells with CSF Inside your skull, your brain is floating in a clear liquid. This liquor cerebrospinalis, or cerebrospinal fluid, until recently was considered simply cushioning for the brain. |
