The world's first official trial using human embryonic stem cells in patients has been halted.
They've found a way to make human embryonic stem cells without using human eggs or human embryos.
The technique relies on an adjustable "microvalve" to build up layers of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).
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Geron is a company with extensive history in several leading-edge medical technologies, including human embryonic stem cells.
It is technically possible to obtain human embryonic stem cells from aborted foetuses and frozen IVF embryos.
Two years later, though, one researcher derived the first human embryonic stem cells by turning to private funding.
The research team, led by Robert Lanza, took human embryonic stem cells and coaxed them into becoming RPE cells.
Keirstead is working with human embryonic stem cells to treat spinal cord injury.
Research involving human embryonic stem cells and human non-embryonic stem cells has the potential to lead to better understanding and treatment of many disabling diseases and conditions.
Its submission to the US Food and Drug Administration to conduct the first trial in patients of human embryonic stem cells was the largest and most complex ever submitted.
Geron and GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric, are developing and commercializing cellular assay products derived from human embryonic stem cells for use in drug discovery, development and toxicity screening.
And Geron of Menlo Park, Calif. is performing animal studies on a variety of different cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, aiming to treat spinal cord injury, heart disease and diabetes.
General Electric ( GE - news - people ), are developing and commercializing cellular assay products derived from human embryonic stem cells for use in drug discovery, development and toxicity screening.
Dr Frisen reckons that they may offer several advantages over human embryonic stem cells which, although easier to manipulate, are a controversial source of new tissue because they are still mainly obtained from aborted fetuses.
Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- A disgraced South Korean scientist -- who gained fame in 2004 when he claimed to have cloned human embryonic stem cells -- on Monday was convicted of embezzling money and illegally buying human eggs, state media reported.
And Geron (nasdaq: GERN - news - people ) of Menlo Park, Calif. is performing animal studies on a variety of different cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, aiming to treat spinal cord injury, heart disease and diabetes.
James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin, who co-wrote the paper in Science and created the first human embryonic stem cells a decade ago, said on a conference call that these new cells are going to be "very powerful" in testing new medicines.
During the six years he ran the NIH under George W. Bush, Zerhouni, a pioneering radiologist raised and educated in Algeria, set the first rules for funding research on human embryonic stem cells and banned NIH scientists from taking big industry consulting fees.
Geron scientists now manufacture seven different types of human cells from embryonic stem cells.
But Mitalipov says his process with the human cells isn't designed to generate a human clone, but rather just to create the embryonic stem cells.
Researchers in South Korea have made the process of creating embryonic stem cells through the cloning of human cells far more efficient than scientists previously believed was possible.
Many scientists believe embryonic stem cells have remarkable potential for treating human diseases.
Embryonic stem cells have great potential for treating human disease because of their ability to generate almost all the cell types found in the adult body.
Embryonic stem cells are the master cells of the human body.
Embryonic stem cells, found only in embryos, are the only human cells that can divide to form any other type of tissue.
As for embryonic stem cells, Okarma said his company hopes to start the first human trials of them in the middle of next year.
When the first iPS cells were developed two years ago in Japan and the United States, skin cells were reprogrammed to be able to have properties similar to a human embryonic stem cell.
For some, embryonic stem cell research requires the taking of a human life, but for others, it represents the acceptable use of cells from very early stage embryos that would never have developed into a person.
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