NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - A headline-making paper last week announcing that scientists had, for the first time, cloned human embryos and harvested stem cells from them contains minor errors, the authors acknowledged on Thursday. The mistakes raise

By Smith On Stocks:Purpose of ReportAn encouraging update on the Phase I trial of Neuralstem's (CUR) neural stem cells in ALS was just presented. I alerted investors about this potential catalyst in my recent blog.Investment ConclusionBefore I state

Will the creation of cloned human stem cells create a treatment revolution and a profitable investment?

Earlier today scientists at the Oregon Health & Science University announced that they have produced embryonic stem cells from an embryo they made by cloning a human. To make the stem cells, they had to let the embryo reach the balstocyst stage

Scientists have used cloning technology to transform human skin cells into embryonic stem cells, an experiment that may revive the controversy over human cloning.

Researchers announced Wednesday, May 15, in the journal Cell that they've been able to make stable colonies of embryonic stem cells by injecting the DNA from 'adult' human cells into a human egg cell emptied out of its genetic material. "Our finding

NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996: They transpl

NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996: They transpl

Verastem, Inc., (NASDAQ: VSTM) focused on discovering and developingdrugs to treat cancer by the targeted killing of cancer stem cells,announced the appointment of John “Jack” Green as Chief FinancialOfficer. Mr.

Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: PSTI) announced today that it has identified its first clinical indication in the hematology field for its Placental eXpanded (PLX) RAD cells for the enhancement of the engraftment of Hematopoietic Stem Cells (HSC

By Richard Pearson:China Cord Blood (CO) is engaged in the business of storing infant umbilical cords for parents in the People's Republic of China. The purpose of this is to create a storage facility for stem cells such that if children encounter si

By EnhydrisPECorp:I wrote this series on stem cells at the behest of a handful of readers and friends, who have often demanded I pay more attention to stem cells. As our new intern aptly said, "more stem cells!". And given that I find the science beh

Neuralstem, Inc. (NYSE: CUR) announced that it has received approval from the Food and DrugAdministration (FDA) to commence a Phase II trial using NSI-566 spinalcord-derived human neural stem cells in the treatment of amyotrophic lateralsclerosis (AL

By Tiran Rothman:Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics (BCLI.OB) is an Israeli biotech company developing a stem cell-based treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive chronic neurological disease that attacks nerve cells responsible for

ByCraig Keolanui:Stem cells represent one of the keys to life as we know it and despite ethical concerns and intense scrutiny from the FDA there are many companies working hard today to take stem cell technology to the next level. To most investors,

StemCells, Inc.(Nasdaq: STEM) today announced that the twelve-month data from the firstpatient cohort in the Company's Phase I/II clinical trial of its proprietaryHuCNS-SC® product candidate (purified human neural stem cells) for chronicspinal cord

Verastem, Inc., (NASDAQ: VSTM), a clinical-stage biopharmaceuticalcompany focused on discovering and developing drugs to treat cancer bythe targeted killing of cancer stem cells, announced the publication ofdata for VS-5584 in Molecular Cancer Therap

Researchers have printed out human embryonic stem cells in a three-dimensional format, part of a wider quest to eventually fashion human body parts on demand.

Scientists on Monday said that for the first time they had printed 3D objects using human embryonic stem cells, furthering the quest to fabricate transplantable organs. Once fine-tuned, the technology should allow scientists to make three-dimensional

Every two minutes someone in the UK has a heart attack. Every six minutes, someone dies from heart failure. During an attack, the heart remodels itself and dilates around the site of the injury to try to compensate, but these repairs are rarely effec

A "longevity gene" can help boost the production of blood cells by reversing the decline of stem cells in old age, a study suggests. Blood-generating stem cells become slower in old age, increasing stress on the body, but infusing them with a gene li

Stemline Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing oncology therapeutics that target both cancer stem cells and tumor bulk, today announced the pricing of its IPO of 3,317,644 shares of its common stock offered at a price to

ByRyan's View:Stem-cell therapy is an intervention strategy that introduces new adult stem cells into damaged tissue in order to treat disease or injury. Medical researchers believe that stem-cell treatments can change the face of human disease and a

WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - California-based CBR SystemsInc, which stores stem cells from umbilical cord blood, hassettled charges that poor data protection policies led to theexposure of hundreds of thousands of clients' Social Securitynumbers an

I will now turn these stem cells into gold“PLURIPOTENT” is a long word that means “able to do many things”. It is the technical term applied to stem cells that can generate many different sorts of bodily tissue, rather than just one sort, whi

The Supreme Court, in an action that may bring to an end a lingering dispute over research on embryonic stem cells, on Monday turned down an appeal by two scientists seeking to stop all such studies.   The denial came as the Court returned

The Supreme Court said Monday it won't consider a challenge to the Obama administration's funding for research involving human embryonic stem cells.

A Massachusetts biotech company expects to start the process for regulatory approval of what experts said would be the first human trial involving stem cells created by reprogramming adult cells back to an embryonic-like state.

Scientists have made brain cells from human pee.  When a person urinates, skin shells are routinely shed from the lining in the kidney, and it's these cells that the researchers reprogrammed into stem cells, which can turn into any type of cell

Ten drug companies and 23 universities are banding together to create one of the world's largest repositories of adult stem cells in order to tackle difficult-to-treat diseases.

LONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Ten international drug companiesare to team up with scientists from 11 European countries tocreate a bank of stem cells for a project aimed at speeding upthe development of new medicines.

By Ben Yoffe:A few years ago, the idea of using stem cells to "repair" the human body seemed far-fetched. But now, with several cellular products entering mid- and late-stage clinical testing, regenerative medicine is becoming a reality. By using ste

By Ben Yoffe:A few years ago, the idea of using stem cells to "repair" the human body seemed far-fetched. But now, with several cellular products entering mid- and late-stage clinical testing, regenerative medicine is becoming a reality. By using ste

By The Swiss Trader:Very Small Embryonic-Like (VSEL) stem cells could be one of NeoStem's (NBS) most promising clinical products in its pipeline, but it has yet to see an aggressive plan towards clinical development. Stem cells, which reside in adult

(Reuters) - Stem cells culled from the bone marrow of healthy donors work as well or even better as cells harvested from patients themselves as a treatment for damaged hearts and are more convenient to use, according to new research.

By Brian Nichols:Recently, one of the most prestigious awards in medicine was awarded to John B. Gurdon and Shinja Yamanaka, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012. The prestigious award was given for their discovery that mature cells can be

THIS year’s Nobel prize for medicine went to Sir John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka (both pictured above) for a crucial discovery in stem-cell science: how to make what are known as pluripotent stem cells from ordinary body cells. What the citation di

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scientists from Britain and Japan shared a Nobel Prize on Monday for the discovery that adult cells can be transformed back into embryo-like stem cells that may one day regrow tissue in damaged brains, hearts or other organs.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scientists from Britain and Japan shared a Nobel Prize on Monday for the discovery that adult cells can be transformed back into embryo-like stem cells that may one day regrow tissue in damaged brains, hearts or other organs.

Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and John Gurdon of Britain won the Nobel Prize on Monday for work in cell programming, a frontier that has raised dreams of replacement tissue for people crippled by disease. The two scientists found that adult cells can be t

* Scientists find adult cells can turn back into stem cells

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scientists from Britain and Japan shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for the discovery that adult cells can be reprogrammed back into stem cells which can turn into any kind of tissue and may one day repair damaged org

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A British and a Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for work on creating stem cells, opening the door to new methods to diagnose and treat diseases.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A British and a Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for work on creating stem cells, opening the door to new methods to diagnose and treat diseases.

By Life Sciences Report:Once the subject of intense political debate, stem cell therapies may soon be a therapeutic mainstay of healthcare. In this exclusive interview with The Life Sciences Report, LifeTech Capital's President and Senior Managing Di

By George Kesarios:It was the year 1998 that human embryonic stem cells were first identified. Just nine years after that, a group of scientists in Japan were able to take skin cells and reprogram them with very powerful viruses to create an induced