by Ubaka Ogbogu | Feb 26, 2013
Patients contemplating medical travel for the purpose of receiving scientifically unproven stem cell treatments may wish to consider one more potential side effect: the possibility of losing their eligibility for health status-related compensation and benefits. In May...
by Nick Dragojlovic | Feb 20, 2013
– The regenerative medicine community greeted last month’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the legality of the Obama Administration’s stem cell policy with relief. The court found that federal funding of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research is...
by Paul Krzyzanowski | Feb 14, 2013
– Nature kicked off 2013 with an unsettling article about how privileged information from research studies is being used to garner gigantic returns for investors, large and small. It’s not surprising, considering that one of the most egregious cases of so called...
by Paul Krzyzanowski | Jan 8, 2013
This year, your household will pay $360 for the use of Intellectual Property (IP) held by people and corporations outside of Canada. For a little less than a dollar a day, you’re supporting industries like biotechnology, high-tech electronics, and engineering in other...
by Nick Dragojlovic | Dec 20, 2012
“Stem Cells Make Aging Mice Young Again” – ABC News “’Factor X’ — Have we finally found the fountain of youth?” – Fox News “Stem cells, the secret to eternal youth?” – Euronews.com Headlines like these are all too common and underscore how the news...
by David Brindley | Dec 18, 2012
Some words have the ability to induce instant and unexplained anxiety. In developing industries, such as cell therapy, one such example is regulation – of any sort. Crudely, our negative perception of regulation can be attributed to two factors: an aversion to both...
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