Stem cell therapy trial for MS shows promising results
Injecting stem cells into the brains of patients with multiple sclerosis is safe and may stop the disease causing further damage, according to an early-stage clinical trial...
by Yan Lau
Injecting stem cells into the brains of patients with multiple sclerosis is safe and may stop the disease causing further damage, according to an early-stage clinical trial...
Adults with thalassemia, a severe genetic blood disorder, will be offered potentially curative stem cell transplants on the NHS for the first time...
The recent announcement of further UK rail strikes means we have had to make the agonising decision to move next week's PET Annual Conference entirely online...
A chimeric monkey has been created using embryonic stem cells with two different sets of genes, a new study has demonstrated...
Osteoarthritis progression in mice is due to the loss of stem cells that produce cartilage in the joints, researchers have proposed...
Dr Calum MacKellar discusses the biological, moral and legal status of stem-cell-based embryonic entities...
A stem-cell therapy usually used to treat blood cancer has been shown to be effective at slowing progression of multiple sclerosis symptoms...
The US Food and Drug Administration's Advisory Committee for Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies has voted that there is insufficient evidence that experimental stem-cell therapy for ALS is effective enough to warrant approval by the agency...
by Rachel Siden
Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, leader of the team that created Dolly the sheep, has died at age 79...
The most complete human embryo model to date has been created, mimicking all of the key structures that emerge in the early embryo by day 14 of development...
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