by Cal Strode | Jul 12, 2023
In 2017, Signals’ blog carnival focused on Right to Try (RTT) legislation – laws that allow patients with life-threatening conditions to ask drugmakers for medicines that have cleared some testing hurdles, but still haven’t been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug...
by Stacey Johnson | Aug 23, 2017
We are less than one week away from Signals’ second blog carnival! Last month I promised to reveal the topic and the participants. I also hinted that this year’s topic might strike some readers as controversial. Given that a few invited bloggers declined to...
by Ubaka Ogbogu | May 18, 2012
The Federal Government has proposed amendments to the Assisted Human Reproduction Act, the legislation that governs embryo research, including many aspects of stem cell research. The amendments, which are contained in an omnibus budget implementation bill tabled...
by Stem Cell Network | May 4, 2011
One of the largest and most controversial stem cell clinics in the western world has closed. The XCell-Center at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, based in Germany, ceased operations on April 21, due to what the Center claims is “a new development in German...
by Ubaka Ogbogu | May 2, 2011
A few months ago I wrote about a temporary injunction (ban) issued by United States federal district court judge Royce C. Lamberth on federal funding for research on human embryonic stem cell lines derived from supernumerary IVF embryos. Subsequently, at the request...
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