New Biology offers a free ebook on the basics of Stem Cell Research, with illustrations: Now with full-color photographs and line illustrations, Stem Cell Research, Revised Edition discusses the different types of stem cells, how they are studied in the laboratory, and the diseases that may be treated with these cells. This edition has been [...]
Geron Pharmaceuticals received the approval almost a year after they’d made the request. This will be the first test using humans and embryonic stem cells. They are hoping, by using the undifferentiated stem cells to repair the spinal chord and restore motor function. Geron will recruit about 10 people who have no motor function in [...]
On 12 March 2010, it was exactly a year since President Obama has reversed the limits imposed on stem cell research by the Bush Administration for eight years. Since then, 43 lines of stem cells have been approved for research. Although the research had been curtailed, the US National Academy of Science had developed guidelines [...]