by Sara M. Nolte | Mar 4, 2014
> A little while ago, I wrote a post about the BRCA1 gene and its role in breast cancer, and suggested that Angelina Jolie’s mastectomy reveal was a missed opportunity to provide information about hereditary breast cancer. I have since wondered what did we get out...
by Stacey Johnson | Feb 21, 2014
. Dr. Robert Langer’s enthusiasm for the limitless promise of bioengineering is infectious. With his efforts and under his tutelage, one hopes that huge advances will be made in restoring movement to the paralyzed and curing the sick through, for example, more...
by Lisa Willemse | Feb 14, 2014
> Stem cells don’t usually feature prominently at Olympic events, unless in connection with performance enhancement, which has been alleged at both the 2008 and 2012 summer games. But, as Paul Knoepfler pointed out in his blog, if stem cell doping at the...
by Mark Curtis | Feb 4, 2014
. Welcome to your Update from the Clinic for the month of January! We start the year off with the German health authority approving Pluristem’s next generation GMP cell manufacturing facility. Neuralstem successfully, and safely, transplants NSI-556 cells directly...
by Mark Curtis | Jan 7, 2014
. Welcome to your Update from the Clinic for the month of December. Athersys and NeoStem both confirm completion of enrollment for phase 2 studies while bluebird bio announces the first patient transplanted in its phase 1/2 study of HGB-205 in patients with...
by Holly Wobma | Jan 6, 2014
> You need only look at an old air conditioner filter to gain an enormous appreciation for our kidneys. Every day, our kidneys filter just under 200L of fluid, filled with all kinds of gnarly toxins that we’d rather not know about. Most of the time, they operate...
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