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Flash stem cell contest: free passes to see Yamanaka & more at WAFSF meeting in SFO

December 22, 2023 / By / 2 Comments
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One of the best stem cell meetings each year is the World Alliance Form San Francisco (WAFSF) stem cell conference, where Shinya Yamanaka will be speaking. It brings together in San Francisco many of the very best stem cell researchers from around the world doing the most cutting edge translational research. You should go! The speakers …

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Diverse Stem Cell Person of the Year 2014 Award Finalists

December 22, 2023 / By / 11 Comments
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With more than 4,142 votes cast, the readers of this blog have chosen the top 12 finalists for the Stem Cell Person of the Year Award for 2014 from the 27 nominees. You can see the final vote tallies at left. The votes came from more than 50 countries with some interesting geographic patterns (I …

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Shinya Yamanaka Interview on Clinical Use of IPSC

December 22, 2023 / By / 10 Comments
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I invited Nobel Laureate Shinya Yamanaka to do an interview on the future of clinical translation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC). He provides some intriguing new insights into the iPSC field and the broader stem cell arena. PK: The Takahashi Team’s active Clinical Study using iPSCs to make RPEs to treat Macular Degeneration has …

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Stem Cell Person of the Year Award 2014 Voting: Who Will Be Finalists?

December 22, 2023 / By
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With one week left to vote to pick the top 12 finalists for the Stem Cell Person of the Year 2014 Award, we have more than 2,800 votes in so far. From the top 12 vote-getters, I will choose the winner. This is the third year of this award. I self-fund this award out of …

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Stem Cell Person of the Year 2014 Award: Vote To Choose 12 Finalists

December 22, 2023 / By / 4 Comments
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Nominations have closed and we have more than two dozen nominations for Stem Cell Person of the Year 2014. It’s an exciting, diverse group including some news faces as well as nominees from years past as well. Happy Stem Cell Day! You can now vote for your choice for the top finalists in the poll …

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BioTime Cell Cure Files IND with FDA for ES cell AMD therapy

December 22, 2023 / By / 2 Comments
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Stem cell biotech BioTime announced the news today that its subsidiary Cell Cure Neurosciences (Cell Cure) has filed an IND with the FDA for an embryonic stem (ES) cell-based therapy for Dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The product to be tested is OpRegen, which the company indicates is “the first IND for an ES cell-based …

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Landmark: patient receives first ever iPS cell based transplant

February 1, 2021 / By / 10 Comments
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In a major first for the stem cell and regenerative medicine fields, a patient in Japan today received a pioneering transplant of a retinal pigmented epithelial (RPE) sheet made from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, also known by the acronym IPSC. This is the first ever iPS cell-based transplant into a human. The patient is …

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Cool, encouraging new preclinical study on monkey iPS cells

February 1, 2021 / By
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What happens if we start using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells clinically in humans? A cool new paper recently came out that gets us closer to being able to predict an answer. It’s an important question as iPS cell-derived cellular products are getting closer to clinical use. For example, the first iPS cell-based clinical trial …

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Dozen Finalists for Stem Cell Person of the Year 2013

December 22, 2023 / By / 14 Comments
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The voting is over and we have our top 12 finalists for the 2013 Stem Cell Person of the Year Award. You can see the final votes results below. It’s definitely an intriguing list that reflects the range of important areas in the field today. I can say without any hesitation that all 12 of …

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Nominees for Stem Cell Person of the Year 2013: scientists, advocates, physicians, and the Pope

December 22, 2023 / By / 3 Comments

Nominations for Stem Cell Person of the Year 2013 closed last night and I ended up with a remarkable list of 30 nominees. I have included a few sentences about each one below, often taking verbiage directly from the nominator. The online voting on these nominees will start soon. The top vote getters will move …

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