Regenerative Medicine News

​Stem cell therapies for our pets Aratana Therapeutics, a pet therapeutics company focused on licensing, developing and commercializing innovative biopharmaceutical products for cats, dogs and other companion animals, entered into an license ag ...[Read More]

​Torstar News:  67-year heart attack survivor first Toronto patient in a new cell therapy trial This article focuses on the first Toronto patient to enter a “groundbreaking cell therapy trial” led by researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital and th ...[Read More]

​New Scientist: Gene editing tool can write HIV out of the picture Peter Aldhous of New Scientist reports on the hope of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco of altering the genome of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC ...[Read More]

​Science Insider: Japanese STAP debacle could bring down center Science AAAS Science Insider describes the findings of a report issued by a reform committee at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology. The report suggests that to avoid a rec ...[Read More]

​BioNews Texas: Texas Biomed Regenerative Medicine (TBRI) program recruits two new researchers  Two new researchers, Tiziano Barberi and Marcel Daadi, have joined the San Antonio-based Texas Biomedical Research Institute (TBRI) to work at the ...[Read More]

​Johns Hopkins Medicine: Human stem cells used to create light-sensitive retina in a dish As reported in Science Daily, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine used human iPSC’s to create a three-dimensional complement of human retinal tissue in ...[Read More]

​Featured video from Lund University (Sweden):  Stem Cell Center researchers working to cure Diamond-Blackfan Anemia   This is a wonderful video focusing on the research that is taking place in Europe seeking a cure of a terrible affliction, ...[Read More]

​Government of India pledges to build world- class research centers for stem cell field To a session of both Houses of Parliament, President Mukherjee stated, “My government recognizes the central role of Science and Technology in raising the ...[Read More]

​Bioscience Technology: Cloner finds new “acid bath” paper errors; scientist oks retraction Kudos to Cynthia Fox who continues to offer original, insightful articles pertaining to the STAP saga. The latest report leads off with cloning pioneer ...[Read More]

​SCOPE: Oh, grow up! “Specialized” stem cells tolerated by immune system, say Stanford researchers “Stanford cardiologist Joseph Wu, MD, PhD, and his colleagues have shown that coaxing the stem cells to become more-specialized (a process known ...[Read More]