STEM CELLS

Spanish and US scientists go to China to create human-monkey chimeras

Michael Cook | 03 August 2019 | Comments

tags: chimeras, ethics for export, stem cells

What about the ethics?

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Japanese scientist to use human-animal hybrids to create organs  

Michael Cook | 03 August 2019 | Comments

tags: chimeras, stem cells

He is using a new technique of targeted organ generation

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Elite hospitals plunge into unproven stem cell treatments

Liz Szabo | 06 April 2019 | Comments

tags: stem cells

Many treatments are basically expensive placebos

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After 14 years, California’s stem cell agency finally gets a royalty cheque

Michael Cook | 04 March 2018 | Comments

tags: california institute for regenerative medicine, cirm, stem cells

But is it a good return on investment? Critics say No.

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Untested stem cell therapies finally drawing attention of Australian regulators

Patrick Foong | 24 November 2017 | Comments

tags: stem cell ethics, stem cell therapies, stem cells

There has already been one death in a clinic

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The emerging technology of ‘synthetic embryology’

Michael Cook | 14 October 2017 | Comments

tags: human embryos, organoids, stem cells

Scientists are facing whole new set of ethical issues

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Embryonic stem cell trials to launch in China

Xavier Symons | 03 June 2017 | Comments

tags: china, embryonic stem cells, stem cells

China will trial the use of embryonic stem-cells to treat Parkinson’s and macular degeneration.

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Caution needed with multipotent stem cells

Jill Johnson | 02 June 2017 | Comments

tags: stem cell therapies, stem cells

Despite their therapeutic promise, there are risks

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When stem cell treatments go wrong, they really go wrong

Michael Cook | 18 March 2017 | Comments

tags: clinical trials, research ethics, stem cells

A stem cell 'trial' in Florida blinds three elderly women

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Stem cell Icarus

Michael Cook | 11 February 2017 | Comments

tags: alan trounson, paolo macchiarini, stem cells

Paolo Macchiarini is one of many who have fallen from the heights

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Leading Adult Stem Cell Researcher named Australian of the Year

Xavier Symons | 04 February 2017 | Comments

tags: australia, embryo research, embryonic stem cells, stem cells

Adult stem cell researcher Alan Mackay-Sim has been named Australian of the Year.

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Scientists closer to growing human organs in pigs

Xavier Symons | 28 January 2017 | Comments

tags: chimeras, stem cells, transplant ethics, xenotransplantation

US researchers reporting that they have created human-pig chimera embryos.

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Stem cells 1: ‘Be patient,” says Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka

Michael Cook | 21 January 2017 | Comments

tags: shinya yamanaka, stem cells

Only a small portion of patients can be helped with stem cell therapy

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Stem cells 2: Was California sold a stem cell pup?

Michael Cook | 21 January 2017 | Comments

tags: california, cirm, stem cells

Most of the funds have been spent on building, not research

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Swedish medicine in turmoil over stem cell researcher

Michael Cook | 11 September 2016 | Comments

tags: nobel prize for medicine, research fraud, research misconduct, stem cells, sweden

Paolo Macchiarini was one of the hottest names in science, but now dark clouds hang over his work

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Have embryonic stem cells hit the wall?

Michael Cook | 12 August 2016 | Comments

tags: human embryonic stem cells, stem cells

MIT Technology Review expresses some scepticism

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Untested stem cell treatments in Australia

Xavier Symons | 12 August 2016 | Comments

tags: australia, clinical ethics, informed consent, stem cells

Australia has seen a sharp rise in the use of unproven stem cell treatments.

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Bold attempt to reverse brain death gets US approval

Michael Cook | 07 May 2016 | Comments

tags: brain death, stem cells

Proof-of-concept clinical trials on 20 patients in India

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Stem cell shenanigans by a Casanova in the Karolinska

Michael Cook | 07 February 2016 | Comments

tags: fraud, stem cell research, stem cells

Celebrity surgeon Paolo Macchiarini under fire in Sweden and the US

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End ‘stem cell tourism,’ experts urge

Michael Cook | 14 November 2015 | Comments

tags: stem cell tourism, stem cells

Many “cures” are problematic and unsustainable

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