Stem Cells - Biotech, Pharma and Life Science Channel
Stem cells can be found in all multicellular organisms and are characterized by the ability to renew themselves through mitotic cell division and differentiate into a diverse range of specialized cell types. Stem cells are found in embryos (embryonic stem cells) and in different tissues (stem cells and progenitor cells).
Research in the stem cell field is now very active, because of the potential of these cells to produce cells of many different lineages, and the possibility that they could help regenerate diseased tissue or even organs that biologically originated from that patient, and therefore do not present an immune thereat. Therapeutic cloning is a possible treatment option for a wide number of conditions across many different disciplines in medicine.
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Cytomedix to Present at the World Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Congress 2013
GAITHERSBURG, MD -- (Marketwired) -- 05/17/13 -- Cytomedix, Inc. (OTCQX: CMXI), a regenerative therapies company commercializing and developing innovative platelet and adult stem cell technologies, a...
Cellectis: TAL-effector nuclease: Issuance by the USPTO of Two New Patents
Cellectis provides its customers TALENTM product under license of these patents to easily achieve any genome engineering projects. Regulatory News: Cell...
Stem Cell Action Coalition Applauds Cloned Stem Cell Breakthrough
The Stem Cell Action Coalition, a network of 75 nonprofit disease advocacy groups, scientific societies and academic centers, applauds the researchers at the Oregon Health...
Biogen Idec Foundation Awards $250,000 to East End House to Develop Genetics Education Program
– GenoExplorers Seeks to Introduce Middle School Students to Genetics Concepts Through Interactive Learning – Today the Biogen Idec Foundation announced a $250,000...
Chronix Biomedical Announces Multiple Poster Presentations at ASCO 2013
Data Highlight Next-Generation Sequencing of Cell-Free DNA to Detect Minimal Residual Disease in a Variety of Cancers Chronix Biomedical, Inc., a developer of blood-based mole...
Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (“ACT”; OTCBB: ACTC), a leader in the field of regenerative medicine, today confirmed that the vision of a patient enrolled in a clinical...
Human embryo stem cells cloning breakthrough
"Human embryonic stem cells created from adult tissue for first time," The Guardian reports, while the Daily Mail's front page leads with the somewhat fanciful warning that new research rais...
ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Announces Issuance of Key Patent Covering ICT-107 Cancer Vaccine Target
ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd. (“ImmunoCellular”) (NYSE MKT: IMUC) announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a patent covering methods of use of...
ROCKVILLE, Md., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Neuralstem, Inc. (NYSE MKT: CUR) announced that CEO and President, Richard Garr, will present at the Annual World Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine...
Stem Cell Therapeutics to Begin Trading on the U.S. OTCQX Marketplace
TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwired) -- 05/16/13 -- Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. (TSX VENTURE: SSS), a biopharmaceutical company developing cancer stem cell-related technologies, today announced that t...
Events
Select Biosciences' 4th annual Single Cell Analysis Summit 2013 will build on the overwhelming success of the previous Single Cell events.
SELECTBIO CellTech2014 will feature an integrated program of tracks designed to fully describe the latest trends in analysis of cells, cell-based assays, and high-content phenotypic assays.
Cell Culture World Congress USA
North America’s commercial cell culture event
Advancing cord blood banking & therapeutics
Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Congress
North America’s commercial stem cells event
World Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Congress 2013
Europe's largest stem cells and regenerative medicine industry conference
Stem Cells & Cell Therapy Summit
Select Biosciences' Stem Cells & Cell Therapy Summit is focused on providing an up-to-date expansive view of the current marketplace
Oxford Global Conferences are proud to introduce the 2013 Pharma R&D Series – Europe’s premiere networking platform for Drug Discovery & Development executives.
Oxford Global is proud to present the Biopharma Asia Series taking place on 24th & 25th September 2013 in Singapore.
2nd Annual Cell Culture & Bioprocessing Congress 2013
175 delegates representing leading biotech companies, global pharma organisations and internationally renowned academic institutions
Companies
Auxogyn is a privately held medical technology company focused on advancing women's reproductive health by applying its novel scientific and clinical knowledge of early human developmental biology to...
OncoMed Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage company that discovers and develops novel therapeutics targeting cancer stem cells, the cells believed to be capable of driving tumor growth, recurrence and...
GL Rapha have been developing various ranges of pharmaceutical technologies specially focusing on Bio-pharmaceuticals such as recombinant proteins, synthetic peptides, and DDS bio similar based on t...
Plasticell is a pioneering biotechnology company that specialises in the differentiation of stem cells to obtain cell types for a range of biomedical applications. Founded in 2002, Plasticell has as...
Verastem, Inc. is a private biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel drugs that selectively target cancer stem cells. Cancer stem cells are an underly...
Cell Medica is a clinical stage cellular therapeutics company engaged in the development and delivery of cellular immunotherapy treatment strategies for infectious disease and can...
Etubics Corporation, based in Seattle, Wash., is a clinical stage bio-pharmaceutical company, which has developed a proprietary platform technology consisting of a next generation...
Advanced Cell Technology, Inc.
Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. is a biotechnology company applying cellular technology in the field of regenerative medicine. For more information, visit http://www.advancedcell.c...
AmStem Inc. is a corporation registered in the State of Nevada with offices in San Francisco, California and Seoul, Korea. The company is a world leader in the area of stem cell r...
The International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research (ISICR), based in Bethesda, Md., is a non-profit organization devoted to interferon, cytokine and chemokine r...
Clinical Trials
Combination Chemotherapy and Peripheral Stem Cell Transplantation in Treating Patients With Sarcoma
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug and combining chemotherapy with periphe...
This randomized phase II trial is studying how well giving tacrolimus and mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) together with or without sirolimus works in preventing acute graft-versus-host disease...
Imiquimod Cream in Treating Patients With Basal Cell Skin Cancer
RATIONALE: Biological therapies, such as imiquimod cream, work in different ways to stimulate the immune system and stop tumor cells from growing. PURPOSE: This randomized phase I trial i...
Cell Lines From High-Risk Breast Tissue
Background: - Many risk factors for breast cancer have been identified, including family history, endocrine background, changes in breast tissue, cancer in one breast, radiation...
Stem Cell Collection With Ofatumumab
The goal of this clinical research study is to learn if it is possible to collect stem cells after ofatumumab and chemotherapy treatment. This study will also evaluate side-effects, number...
A Study of Prasugrel in Pediatric Participants With Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)
The main purpose of the study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the study drug known as prasugrel for the reduction of Vaso-Occlusive Crisis events in pediatric participants with s...
This study will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of treating patients with severe aplastic anemia (SAA) or myelopdysplastic syndrome (MDS) with both peripheral blood stem cells from a...
Study of OSI-774 (Tarceva) in Previously Untreated Elderly Lung Cancer Patients
The primary purpose of this study is to determine whether the drug OSI-774 is less toxic and potentially as good as or better than standard chemotherapy drugs, when given to subjects with...
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of autologous bone marrow-derived stem cells("HYNR-CS inj"), through intrathecal delivery for the treatment in patients wit...
Vemurafenib, Cetuximab, and Irinotecan in Advanced Solid Cancers
The goal of this clinical research study is to find the highest tolerable dose of vemurafenib that can be given in combination with cetuximab and irinotecan to patients with advanced cance...
PubMed Articles
Accumulating evidence has shown that microRNAs are involved in multiple processes in cancer development and progression. Recently, miR-22 has been identified as a tumor-suppressing microRNA in many hu...
Application of five prognostic survival scores to primary myelofibrosis in 62 Brazilian patients.
Primary myelofibrosis (PM) is a Philadelphia-negative clonal hematopoietic stem cell disorder characterized by intense reactive changes of bone marrow stroma with collagen fibrosis, osteosclerosis and...
Hypermethylation and prognostic implication of Syk gene in human colorectal cancer.
The study was aimed to investigate the relationship between hypermethylation of Syk gene and clinicopathological characteristics and long-term outcomes in colorectal cancer. The effect of Syk on cell...
PTPN4 negatively regulates CrkI in human cell lines.
PTPN4 is a widely expressed non-receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase. Although its overexpression inhibits cell growth, the proteins with which it interacts to regulate cell growth are unknown. In th...
Enhancement of wound closure in diabetic mice by ex vivo expanded cord blood CD34(+) cells.
Diabetes can impair wound closure, which can give rise to major clinical problems. Most treatments for wound repair in diabetes remain ineffective. This study aimed to investigate the influence on wou...
Nonylphenol (NP), a representative endocrine disruptor, interferes with reproductive function in aquatic organisms and animals. Although many previous studies have focused on apoptotic cell death by N...
Activated Ion ETD Performed in a Modified Collision Cell on a Hybrid QLT-Oribtrap Mass Spectrometer.
We describe the implementation and characterization of activated ion electron transfer dissociation (AI-ETD) on a hybrid QLT-Orbitrap mass spectrometer. AI-ETD was performed using a collision cell tha...
Albumin-coated structural lyophilized bone allografts: a clinical report of 10 cases.
Bone replacement and the use of bone supplementary biological substances have become widespread in clinical practice. Although autografts have excellent properties, their limited availability, difficu...
Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) were seeded in a three-dimensional scaffold of silk fibroin (SF) and chitosan (CS) to repair cartilage defects in the rabbit knee. Totally 54 rabbits...
Recent clinical observations and experimental studies of our group indicate that macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) may contribute to tumor progression in head and neck squamous cell carcino...
Videos
Major Embryonic Stem Cell Advance Raises Ethical Quandaries
Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University have achieved a longtime goal. They cloned genes to create embryonic stem cells able to transform into ti...
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Chromosomes, Plant
Complex nucleoprotein structures which contain the genomic DNA and are part of the CELL NUCLEUS of PLANTS.
Spectral Karyotyping
The simultaneous identification of all chromosomes from a cell by fluorescence in situ hybridization (IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE) with chromosome-specific florescent probes that are discerned by their different emission spectra.
Chromosomes, Mammalian
Complex nucleoprotein structures which contain the genomic DNA and are part of the CELL NUCLEUS of MAMMALS.
Stem Cell Transplantation
The transfer of STEM CELLS from one individual to another within the same species (TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS) or between species (XENOTRANSPLANTATION), or transfer within the same individual (TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS). The source and location of the stem cells determines their potency or pluripotency to differentiate into various cell types.
Periplasmic Proteins
Proteins found in the PERIPLASM of organisms with cell walls.
