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A new cloning method that relies on skin cells is far more efficient and easier to use Read more...

Technology Stanford University scientists have achieved new, detailed understanding of how a polymer folds into a unique three-dimensional structure by using an "optical trap" to precisely unfold a Read more...

In a first, Geron made headlines at the BIO CEO conference in New York with its announcement that it could begin its first human trials using embryonic stem cells to treat spinal cord injuries as Read more...

Stem Cell Research Researchers at Geron and Advanced Cell Technology are jockeying to begin the first human clinical trials of embryonic stem cell therapies. Geron plans to file for regulatory Read more...

Stem Cell Research Advanced Cell Technology has advanced a new method to create embryonic stem cells without destroying the embryo, but federal officials say that Read more...

Stem Cell Research

Researchers at Advanced Cell Technology has developed three new stem cell lines by taking an individual cell from an embryo and then froze the embryo with no harm done to it. ACT had generated a wave of criticism for its earlier announcement on the process. That work involved destroying the embryo to prove the theory that you could develop stem cell lines by withdrawing cells from an embryo. This new work saves the embryo to …

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Researchers were able to grow new cells from embryonic stem cells and used them to slow vision loss in rats with a genetic ailment comparable to macular degeneration. The scientists--Raymond D. Lund, who had been at the University of Utah's John A. Moran Eye Center in Salt Lake City, and Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology--say that their work demonstrates the utility of using new cells to substitute for the failing photoreceptor cells in the retina of the eye. Failing photoreceptor …

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Stem cell research should be encouraged
Advanced Cell Technology has taken a lot of heat for its work that purports to show researchers can create new embryonic stem cell lines without destroying the embryo. That remains more of a …

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The claim that new embryonic stem cell lines can be created by extracting a single cell from eight- to 10-cell embryos without harming the embryo continues to draw skepticism. Last week researchers at Advanced Cell Technology conceded that all the embryos used in their research project were destroyed but insisted that the embryos could have survived if researchers had allowed them to grow. Now, outside observers are also questioning the company's conclusions that they could successfully …

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There's no question that the big research news of the week came from Advanced Cell Technology. A team of scientists at the company say they were able to extract embryonic stem cells from early-stage, eight-cell embryos and create new stem cell lines that could be used in new research work. Their work is being published in Nature. As luck would have it, I was doing some research of my own on embryonic stem cells and reached Advanced Cell Technology CEO William …

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