Archive for February, 2008

29th Feb 2008

University Keeps Patent On Stem Cells (Fox 12 Oregon)

MADISON, Wis. — A federal agency has upheld a patent that covers embryonic stem cell research, rejecting a challenge from critics who say the patents are hindering research.

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29th Feb 2008

University Keeps Patent On Stem Cells (WGAL 8 Susquehanna Valley)

Researchers can charge their colleagues to use techniques to find embryonic stem cells.

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29th Feb 2008

Stem Cells May Aid Treaments (The Harvard Crimson)

Researchers from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and Mass. General Hospital (MGH) are one step closer to reprogramming adult stem cells and making them capable of creating tissues for all parts of the body without the use of viruses or cancer-causing genes.

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29th Feb 2008

California Stem Cell, Inc. Concludes Series A Financing

“CSC has begun deriving high purity, clinical grade human cell populations from human embryonic stem cells,” said Dr. Chris Airriess, Chief Operating Officer of CSC. “The funding will enable CSC to continue the expansion of its GMP

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29th Feb 2008

Embryonic Stem Cell Homing

Boston, MA - Administration of bone marrow derived stem cells to patients “post-infarct has demonstrated positive clinical results”:http://www.stemcellpatents.com/news-show-146 in double blind trials. Additionally, Osiris Therapeutics

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29th Feb 2008

Stem cell patents survive challenge

The United States Patent and Trademark Office announced Thursday they upheld the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation’s patent on human embryonic stem cell technology discovered by University of Wisconsin researcher James Thomson.

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29th Feb 2008

Making functional bone marrow from ES cells - Dr. Nicholas

Should it be a patient-specific or already existing cell line? Is it clinically proven that embryonic stem cell lines do not cause immuno-rejection? Once adult stem cells are derived from embryonic stem cells, would they express HLA

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29th Feb 2008

Human Parthenogenetic Stem Cells to be used in Germany Develop

ISCO’s human parthenogenetic stem cells are created from unfertilized human eggs, yet share with conventional human embryonic stem cells the ability to differentiate into all tissue types. They also are the first step in solving one of

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29th Feb 2008

A Disputed Patent on Embryonic Stem Cells Is Upheld

The US Patent and Trademark Office has upheld one of the three disputed University of Wisconsin patents on a technique for isolating and maintaining embryonic stem cells. But the two groups that have challenged the patents say they will

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29th Feb 2008

Stem Cells May Treat Diabetes

Stem Cells May Treat Diabetes Scientists Coax Embryonic Stem Cells to Treat Mice With a Condition Like Type 1 Diabetes Feb. 21, 2008 — Researchers report using embryonic stem cells to treat a . . .

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