Cellular Dynamics, the stem cell company founded by Dr. James Thomson, is filing for an IPO. Hat tip to David Jensen. The company, which will go under the stock symbol ICEL, is focused on iPS cell-produced products. They describe their portfolio as follows: Cellular Dynamics is developing and deploying a number of cell types derived from […]
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It’s difficult to make it as a biotech company, I would say stem cell biotechs in general may have an even rougher time, and one such company, Intellicell (Intellicell Biosciences, Inc), is showing a number of signs of distress in my opinion. An online financial tool predicts the probability of companies going bankrupt within the next
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Celebrities such as Kim Kardashian are reportedly getting so-called vampire facials. Why put yourself through that? Perhaps because stem cells and other material inside the processed blood is supposed to make them younger? Yes, that is Kim above (photo from Kim Kardashian on Instagram) with her face smeared with blood, but not just ordinary Kardashian
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Cancer Stem Cells: a new target Disease Focus Series: Cancer Disease Focus Series: HIV/AIDS Disease Focus Series: Spinal Cord InjuryDisease Focus Series: Osteoarthritis research moving forward Disease Focus Series: Parkinson’s Disease and promising new pre-clinical results from iPS cells Disease Focus Series: a big week of exciting progress on Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer’s Disease Disease Focus
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Swahili Seli shina ni nini? Mwili wa binadamu una mamia ya seli (chembechembe hai) za aina tofauti zenye umuhimu kiafya. Seli hizi zina jukumu la kuendesha mifumo mbalimbali ya miili yetu, kwa mfano, kuendesha mapigo ya moyo, kuwezesha fikra akilini, usafishaji wa damu kwenye figo, kutengeneza ngozi mpya, na kadhalika. Kazi ya kipekee ya seli
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Clinicaltrials.gov is where you want to go for finding a certain clinical trial and studies. Note that this U.S. database Clinicaltrials.gov includes international trials. It is a very powerful tool! Check it out here to do your own searches. Also follow me on Twitter for all the latest info and expert analysis: http://twitter.com/pknoepfler and this patient’s
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Dr. Leigh Turner, who always seems ahead of the curve on breaking news regarding Celltex, reported today that Celltex has filed a Form D with the SEC. This filing points toward some strategies moving forward for the company and in my opinion shows some very smart moves. Amongst these actions include hiring new personnel very
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How promising is the idea of stem cells for Alzheimer’s Disease? Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is one of the most devastating illnesses that the human race has ever faced. It literally destroys the brain, which shrinks as a result over time (see image at left from Wikipedia). The toll of AD is not only measured in
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I’m going to try to do a new feature on Fridays, a TGIF review of the week in stem cell headlines in the news. What’s the good, the bad, and the ugly? What’s been hyped? It was a busy week in stem cells. The good Prostate Cancer Stem Cells. I’d give the recent wonderful Cell
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The conflict in Ireland over stem cells is still brewing and bubbling this week as I’ve been blogging it. It is remarkable to me that as just one person I have in a few days been able to have a substantial impact in that dialogue via this blog. There has been a rather large push
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