Cellular Biomedicine Group Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., achieved 50 percent enrollment of the total projected enrollment required for its Phase I trial to evaluate the safety and preliminary efficacy of tumor stem cell-specific dendritic cell therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma

GSK is developing a bone marrow-derived stem cell gene therapy through late phase development and has a small number of collaborations in that field

Pfizer also is working with the MD Anderson Cancer Center on a Phase I/II study of the drug prior to stem cell transplant in CD22-positive lymphoid malignancies

Embryonic stem cells have been the subject of so many political fights that it's easy to forget they have also faced formidable scientific obstacles...Embryonic stem cell pioneer Michael West, the co-founder of Geron Corp., of Menlo Park, Calif., and current CEO of BioTime Inc., dryly summarized the approach as "they made Starbucks clones – and it worked

Neuralstem Inc., of Rockville, Md., presented updated, favorable Phase I data from its spinal cord-derived human neural stem cell (NSI-566) trial in the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig 's disease) at the neuro-diabetes special medical symposium in Bucharest, Romania

to treat a range of degenerative diseases." – Mary Herbert, professor of reproductive biology at Newcastle University, on the success in cloning human embryonic stem cells from skin cells via somatic cell nuclear transfer "After going over there and seeing how the landscape was changing, it seemed like there was a growing knowledge base around biologics, a lot of which had been focused on biosimilars

Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp.'s stock will trade on OTCQX International under the symbol "SCTPF

And embryonic stem cells have always been the poster child for that fact...More broadly, "many people support embryonic stem cell research only when it uses cells from discarded embryos

In myelofibrosis, up-regulation of blood cell production causes fibrotic tissue to develop in the bone marrow, resulting from acquired mutations targeting hematopoietic stem cells

Advanced Cell Technology Inc., of Marlborough, Mass., said that the vision of a patient enrolled in a clinical investigation of the company's retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) has improved from 20/400 to 20/40 following treatment...Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp., of Toronto, said its wholly owned subsidiary Trillium Therapeutics has completed dosing in its Phase I study of TTI-1612 in patients with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC

Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp., of Toronto, said the company's stock will trade on OTCQX International under the symbol "SCTPF" starting May 20

Bluebird's treatment approach involves the use of stem cells harvested from a patient's bone marrow...LentiD is designed to transduce a patient's hematopoietic stem cells with the lentiviral vector encoding ABCD1 cDNA, the gene that provides transport function in brain cells for clearing up those fatty acids

Embryonic stem cells have been the subject of so many political fights that it's easy to forget they have also faced formidable scientific obstacles...Embryonic stem cell pioneer Michael West, the co-founder of Geron Corp., of Menlo Park, Calif., and current CEO of BioTime Inc., dryly summarized the approach as "they made Starbucks clones – and it worked