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The Motley Fool
November 9, 2004
Charly Travers |
Are Stem Cells a Rule Breaker? Does the science offer real hope or just hype? Biotech investors take on enough risk in the normal course of drug development that they do not need to worry about whether or not the underlying technology even works.   |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Future Cures Almost every disease known to man is under constant research and we can hardly go a day without hearing about some advancement or another. Here are a few diseases for which future cures could be looming on the horizon. |
Chemistry World
April 8, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Nanofibers Reconnect Nerves Mice paralyzed by spinal injuries have been able to walk again thanks to a treatment developed by scientists in the US. |
Chemistry World
March 28, 2014
Michael Parkin |
Rare-cell analysis platform pursues neurodegeneration answers A technique for spotting the small numbers of immune cells that cross the blood -- brain barrier into the cerebral spinal fluid may offer early clues on neurodegenerative disease progression. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2011
Brian Vastag |
Hope Floats With a new arsenal of robust models of ALS, drug development may move to the fast track. |
BusinessWeek
July 26, 2004
Arlene Weintraub |
The Stem-Cell Flap: Simmer Down Advocates are overstating stem cells' near-term ability to treat grave illnesses. In doing so, they not only distort the science; the hopes they raise among many people who are sick today are also sure to be dashed. |
BusinessWeek
September 23, 2010
Rob Waters |
Stem Cells That Save Big Pharma a Bundle Drugmakers hope to save big by using stem cells to test drugs for dangerous side effects long before costly human trials are needed. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
August 1, 2008
Patrick Clinton |
Salute to the Murines What can we say about modern medicine? The answer, of course, is that it's brilliant at curing the ailments of mice. |
Scientific American
March 2007
Alison Snyder |
Sight for Sore Eyes Having generated a cell source and overcome the safety concerns associated with transplanting stem cells, researchers still face possibly their biggest challenge: showing that the transplanted photoreceptors wire up to other neurons that eventually connect to the optic nerves. |
Chemistry World
July 3, 2014
Maria Burke |
Renewed focus on dementia checked by drug challenges The risks and barriers for companies working in dementia are huge, but so too, potentially, are the rewards, says Simon Ridley, head of research at Alzheimer's Research UK. |
Scientific American
November 2005
Charles Q. Choi |
Baby to Brain Mothers could literally always have their kids on their minds. Researchers find that in mice, cells from fetuses can migrate into a mother's brain and apparently develop into nervous system cells. |
The Motley Fool
August 27, 2007
Brian Orelli |
Repairing a Broken Heart Stem cells may be the new cure. If research continues on track, Geron expects to ask FDA to start clinical trials late next year or in early 2009. Investors, take note. |
BusinessWeek
December 30, 2009
Kerry Capell |
Multiple Sclerosis: A Breakthrough Is on the Way A number of improved treatments will be available soon, and Novartis' Fingolimod could lead the way |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010
Amy Maxmen |
Driving the Immune System to Attack Cancer A researcher's longtime efforts to drive T cells to attack tumors hits pay dirt. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Jim Schnabel |
Oxygen on the Brain An ancient cellular program to protect cells when oxygen is low seems crucial for the production of new brain cells. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011
Deborah Franklin |
Helping Preemies Treating myelin injuries and tracking brain cell development to rescue the littlest patients. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Seeing is Believing Today, researchers are finding clever ways to deliver long-lasting, healthy genes without triggering a serious immune response. |
BusinessWeek
May 24, 2004
Arlene Weintraub |
Repairing The Engines Of Life Can research into stem cells and other advanced techniques heal ailing hearts and brains? U.S. labs are hamstrung by the federal government. |
Chemistry World
June 2011 |
Breaking through the barrier Getting drug molecules into the brain means crossing the defensive blood-brain barrier. Anthony King investigates how chemists are infiltrating the brain's fortress |
Scientific American
January 17, 2007
Charles Q. Choi |
A Stroke for Stem Cells The brain becomes a target in stem cell clinical trials. |
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2010
Brian Orelli |
The Mice Can Walk! Remember you're essentially buying a lottery ticket investing in this or any other unproven early stage biomedical technology. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2006
Logan Ward |
Your Upgrade Is Ready Evolution has done its best, but there's a limit to our bodies capabilities. Wanna be Superman? Better call the engineers. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010
Mitch Leslie |
Immune System Defects Can Cause Obsessive Behavior A shortage of certain immune cells might prompt obsessive-compulsive disorder. |
BusinessWeek
March 14, 2005
John Carey |
Tysabri's Painful Lessons Biogen's sudden withdrawal of the multiple sclerosis drug illustrates the dangers of trying to alter the immune system's workings |
Technology Research News
March 10, 2004 |
Chip controls neural connection Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany and the University of Calgary in Canada have used a silicon chip to coax a pair of nerve cells to communicat |
The Motley Fool
July 15, 2010
Ryan McBride |
Glaxo's Tempero Pharma Advances on Hot Niche of Immunology Staking claim in emerging fields. |
HHMI Bulletin
Spring 2013
Julie Corliss |
Pressure to See Clearly At the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, Simon John has spent nearly two decades honing tools to illuminate glaucoma's shadowy corners. |
Scientific American
December 2006
Philip E. Ross |
Putting Up with Self Critics warned of bad experiments and false hope. But Denise Faustman seems to be right about a strategy to regrow insulin-making cells killed off in diabetes |
Chemistry World
October 14, 2009
Phil Taylor |
Tracing amyloid in Alzheimer's A diagnostic compound that allows researchers to look into the brains of Alzheimer's patients will be used for the first time to gauge the effects of an experimental therapy for the disease. |
BusinessWeek
January 8, 2007
Catherine Arnst |
Decoding Alzheimer's After a century, promising treatments at last - and whispers of a cure. |
BusinessWeek
June 27, 2005
Arlene Weintraub |
Stem Cells To Go ViaCell's goal is to mass-produce stem cells from umbilical cord blood. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
Nicole Kresge |
Locating a Genetic Glitch A team of 41 scientists led by HHMI investigator Louis Ptacek has pinpointed the gene responsible for a rare disease that causes sudden, uncontrollable movements. The culprit is a little known protein that may be responsible for communication between neurons. |
Chemistry World
January 30, 2012
James Urquhart |
Iron accumulation linked to neurogenerative disease Parkinson's and Alzheimer's could be caused by an accumulation of iron in regions of the brain, Australian researchers say. |
The Motley Fool
January 31, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Time to Buy Into Stem Cells? New developments bring this analyst a step closer to opening his wallet. |
BusinessWeek
March 14, 2005
Arnst & Barrett |
Another Ailing Miracle Drug Biogen's troubles with Tysabri are a setback for immune-system treatments |
Chemistry World
July 30, 2008
Sarah Houlton |
A metal trap to stop Alzheimer's Trapping metals could prove a key to curing Alzheimer's disease, according to the promising results of early clinical trials on a compound called PBT2. |
Chemistry World
June 21, 2011
Carol Stanier |
Nanotubes Inject Stroke Therapy Into Rats' Brains Carbon nanotubes act as a delivery vehicle for small pieces of RNA that help to prevent cell death in the brain after stroke. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
October 1, 2012
Ben Comer |
Stem Cells: A Promise Deferred? Ideology, politics, and a stilted political debate may be causing pharma to overlook the potential of emerging stem cell therapies in fostering a new generation of cures. |
Chemistry World
February 4, 2011
Harriet Brewerton |
Transplant tracking Magnetic nanoparticles could be used to track neural stem cells after a transplant in order to monitor how the cells heal spinal injuries, say UK scientists. |
Popular Mechanics
January 28, 2010
Cassie Rodenberg |
Next-Gen Transplant Techniques Can Stop Organ Rejection About 77 organ transplants are performed each day in the U.S., and more than 101,000 people are on a wait list for body parts such as hearts, skin and veins, according to the Mayo Clinic. |
The Motley Fool
November 28, 2007
Brian Orelli |
Stem Your Expectations of Stem-Cell Discoveries Making "stem" cells out of skin cells isn't all it's cracked up to be. The recent discovery has a long way to go before it can catch up to the research currently being done with stem cells. |
Chemistry World
June 19, 2012
Anthony King |
Nanoparticles linked to rheumatoid arthritis Three types of nanoparticles were found to ramp up protein citrullination in cell cultures, a change that can make the body think native proteins are foreign. This process has previously been linked to autoimmune disease. |
Popular Mechanics
November 17, 2009
Elizabeth Svoboda |
Five Body Parts You May Be Able to Regrow Soon(ish) New hope for injured hearts, lungs, arms and legs as well as other body regeneration strategies. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
Elise Lamar |
Cells on the Move The biochemical signals that set cells on a journey are as diverse as the tissues they move through, but the engine is driven by constant remodeling of a protein network built from a box of cellular Legos. |
Scientific American
December 2008
Tim Hornyak |
Turning Back the Cellular Clock: A Farewell to Embryonic Stem Cells? Shinya Yamanaka discovered how to revert adult cells to an embryonic state. These induced pluripotent stem cells might soon supplant their embryonic cousins in therapeutic promise |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Erectile Dysfunction Cure For the first time, stem cells have been used to cure ED in rats with Peyronie's disease, which is a connective tissue disorder in the penis affecting between 3-9% of men. |
Nutra Solutions
January 1, 2005 |
Magnesium for Memory An MIT researcher says a study with rats indicates that magnesium makes the mature brain open for growth and change. |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2011
Brian Orelli |
4 Immunotherapies to Watch Just don't go all-in. |
Chemistry World
June 11, 2015
Sarah Houlton |
Companies clamour for CAR-T The biopharmaceutical industry is getting excited about chimeric antigen receptor T-cells, or CAR-T cells, designed to harness the cell-killing power of the immune system. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
July 30, 2007 |
Tomorrow's Drugs A look at the seven top therapies and technologies vying to deliver the next generation of drugs. |
