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Stanford stem cell product, delayed for more than a decade, to be tested again
2015-06-14 02:10:05| Biotech - Topix.net
In the 1990s, Stanford's Irv Weissman created a unique way to grow and deliver blood stem cells to desperate patients with aggressive cancers, boosting survival rates. But then the discovery itself died -- a victim of the heartbreaking economics of commercial stem-cell development, where the long and rocky road of research, especially in the field of "personalized medicine," often discourages investment.
Celladon Corporation Announces In-License of Stem Cell Factor Development Program
2014-07-21 15:09:06| Trucking - Topix.net
Stem Cell Factor is a critical cytokine which contributes to cell migration, proliferation, and survival of cardiac stem cells.
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Boston Biomedical Announces Clinical Data Presentation Of Its Cancer Stem Cell Inhibitor Programs
2014-06-16 19:56:43| Logistics - Topix.net
Clinical data were presented for BBI608 and BBI503, novel agents targeting cancer stem cells that have been developed by the company.
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Athersys' MultiStem(R) Stem Cell Therapy Receives Orphan Drug Designation In Europe For Prevention Of Graft-Versus-Host Disease
2013-12-30 06:10:10| drugdiscoveryonline Home Page
Athersys, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATHX) announced today that the Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has issued a positive opinion (EMA/OD/146/13) for the Company's allogeneic, multipotent adult progenitor cell, or MultiStem® therapy, for the prevention of graft-versus-host disease (GvHD)
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StemCells, Inc. Acquires Seminal Neural Stem Cell Patent Portfolio
2013-10-30 05:24:33| drugdiscoveryonline News Articles
StemCells, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEM) today announced the acquisition of a portfolio of issued US and Canadian patents to which it had previously held an exclusive worldwide license
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