Archive for February, 2009
Governor announced Emerging Technology Fund investment in stem cell research
Governor Perry announced Emerging Technology Fund investment in stem cell research at Texas A&M Health Science Center Friday, 13 February 2009 Gov. Rick Perry announced a $5 million investment through the Texas Emerging Technology Fund Feb. 12 to recruit leading scientists focused on regenerative medicine technologies to the Texas A&M Health Science Center [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Obama to OK embryonic stem cell research
WorldNetDaily reports – In a closed-door meeting with House Democrats at their retreat at the posh Kingsmill Golf Resort in Williamsburg, Va., President Obama gave his “guarantee” he will sign an executive order overturning President Bush’s executive order restricting federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Obama’s reversal of Bush’s policy comes in the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Drugs v Stem Cells – the race to cure
The deputy chairman on the Repair Stem Cell Institute Science Advisory Board and one of the pioneers of stem cell therapy has this to say:
For doctors who say that current stem cell therapies are “unproven,” Dr. Fernandez Vina has the following response: “How many patients must to be treated to say this is a cure? [...]
Multiple Sclerosis Reversed in Patients Taking Own Stem Cells
Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) — Patients in the early stages of multiple
sclerosis had their disability reversed in a study that used their stem
cells to *reset* their malfunctioning immune system.
All 21 patients in the study at Northwestern University in Chicago had
the *relapsing-remitting* form of the disease that makes their
symptoms alternately flare up and recede. Three years after [...]
