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...
by Natasha Davie | Dec 10, 2013
. The UK has previously committed to incorporating some sort of value based pricing into its reimbursement scheme to improve patient access to innovative medicines. With recent backtracking on this decision, as the Jan 2014 deadline for this integration approaches, we...
by Alessandra Pasut | Nov 28, 2013
> There’s no better pleasure in life than to satisfy our own cravings. Whether it’s a food craving or something else, there’s no peace for the soul, at least mine, till that need is quenched. And for those of us who find themselves longing for (more) stem cells,...
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