Sentences with phrase «embryonic stem cell therapy»

A much - watched clinical trial on embryonic stem cell therapy for spinal cord injuries was dropped by Menlo Park biotech Geron in 2011.

Zernicka - Goetz's research could also lead to important advancements in the study of embryonic stem cell therapy applications.

«First embryonic stem cell therapy safety trial in Asian patients.»

(In many ways it is worse than when John Edwards said in 2004 that if people voted for John Kerry, people like Christopher Reeve would get out of their wheelchairs and walk from embryonic stem cell therapies.)

Advanced Cell Technology, based in Santa Monica California, is developing embryonic stem cell therapies for macular degeneration and other conditions using cells obtained non-destructively from an early embryo called a blastocyst.

The finding could fundamentally change how we look at human stem cell tech: If chimeric monkeys require totipotent cells before they can come into being, it stands to reason that human embryonic stem cell therapy might also require totipotent stem cells to render cures.

The world's first chimeric monkeys were created in a laboratory last year, and they offer surprising new insights into embryonic stem cell therapy: One reason for often - poor treatment outcomes may be that we're using embryos that are, strangely, just too old.

Prop. 71 was sold to voters mainly on the promise of embryonic stem cell therapy.

ACT, which has almost gone under several times in recent years, may now be on the verge of conducting the nation's first trial of an embryonic stem cell therapy, says Chief Scientific Officer Robert Lanza.

A clinical trial in the Republic of Korea for patients with degenerative eye diseases is the first to test the safety of an embryonic stem cell therapy for people of Asian descent.

Finding suggests that embryonic stem cell therapy could encounter the same problems organ transplants do

Pride compels me to note that a little - known California law, the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Act of 1999, formerly Assemby Bill 750, was the source of the initial funding for Dr. Hans Keirstead's great work, soon to become the world's first human trials for an embryonic stem cell therapy.