Embryonic stem cell trial back on

Nearly a year after the US Food and Drug Administration placed a hold on the first clinical trial of human embryonic stem cells, the company Geron has been cleared to continue its study of spinal cord injury, it announced today (July 30). Human embryonic stem cells Image: Wikimedia commons, Nissim Benvenisty “We are pleased with the FDA’s [...]

Stem cell regs to become law?

US President Barack Obama’s 2009 executive order to allow the federal funding of research using new human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines may become law. Human embryonic stem cells Image: Wikimedia commons, Nissim Benvenisty Yesterday (March 9), on the one-year anniversary of Obama’s announcement, members of Congress Diana DeGette of Colorado and Mike Castle of [...]

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