Friedlander's stem-cell therapy could one day compete with drugs like Lucentis from Genentech.
It is an investor in the San Diego biotech company Novocell, which is developing stem-cell therapy to cure diabetes.
Osiris Therapeutics is testing in new diabetics an adult stem-cell therapy that it hopes will have fewer side effects than anti-CD3 drugs.
Friedlander's stem-cell therapy could one day compete with drugs like Lucentis from Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ).
Osiris Therapeutics (nasdaq: OSIR - news - people ) is testing in new diabetics an adult stem-cell therapy that it hopes will have fewer side effects than anti-CD3 drugs.
Marley, a Labrador, got stem-cell therapy for his arthritis, surgery on his windpipe to deal with a condition that was choking off his breathing, and, at the end, medication to ease the pain of advanced cancer.
Consolidation chemotherapy is a less intensive post-remission maintenance therapy than a stem cell transplant.
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Research in autism has indicated abnormalities in spinal fluid and chemical signaling in the brain- anecdotal reports of children undergoing stem cell therapy have indicated some potentially encouraging results.
Only last year, she said, Egli and Paull and their colleagues demonstrated that the nuclear transfer of eggs cells could generate patient-specific stem cell lines for potential cell replacement therapy to treat diseases like diabetes.
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When it comes to people, said Dr. Hsieh, it might be similarly effective to give the therapy in the first week after a heart attack, when stem-cell activity is highest.
That statement is at odds with promises posted on a relatively new Web site run by an 80-year-old Florida doctor named Burton Feinerman, who says he's been conducting stem cell therapy for three years.
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