STEM CELLS

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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Is the great stem cell debate over?

Michael Cook | 31 October 2015 | Comments

tags: stem cell ethics, stem cells

A new paper claims that induced stem cells are functionally equivalent to embryonic stem cells

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Researchers grow organ in petri dish

Xavier Symons | 16 October 2015 | Comments

tags: clinical research, clinical trials, organ transplants, stem cells

Australian Researchers have managed to grow a mini-kidney in a laboratory

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US bioethics group calls for cloning ban

Michael Cook | 04 September 2015 | Comments

tags: cloning, embryonic stem cells, stem cells

Whatever happened to the mad cloners?

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Stem cell clinics are the ‘Wild West’ of medicine, say critics

Michael Cook | 23 May 2015 | Comments

tags: commercialization, stem cell business, stem cells

Regulators in the United States and Australia are examining the burgeoning field of stem cell therapies.

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Super surgeon who uses stem cells accused of unethical conduct

Michael Cook | 30 November 2014 | Comments

tags: informed consent, scientific misconduct, stem cells

Shades of Hwang Woo-suk.

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US stem cell expert questions UK plans for 3-parent embryos

Michael Cook | 09 November 2014 | Comments

tags: stem cells, three-parent embryos

A noble goal, but there are too many unanswered questions.

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