Scientists: Egg shortage hurts stem cell research
AP via Yahoo! Finance Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:54 PM PDT
Facing a human egg shortage they say is preventing medical breakthroughs, scientists and biotech entrepreneurs are pushing the country's top funders of stem cell research to rethink rules that prohibit paying women for eggs. |
Karmanos receives $250,000 grant for cord stem-cell transplants
Crain's Detroit Business Wed, 30 Jul 2008 2:37 PM PDT
The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute has received a $250,000 multiyear grant from the J.P. McCarthy Fund of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan to benefit the hospital's umbilical cord stem-cell bank. |
Invitrogen Licenses Stem Cell Line from Buck Institute
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance Wed, 30 Jul 2008 1:03 PM PDT
CARLSBAD, Calif. & NOVATO, Calif.----Invitrogen Corporation , a provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, has licensed an engineered stem cell line from the Buck Institute for Age Research. |
Ethical storm brews over embryonic stem cell lines
New Scientist Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:23 AM PDT
Documents reveal that some women were not properly informed that their viable embryos would be destroyed to form new cell lines (full text available to subscribers) |
GlaxoSmithKline cements interest in stem cells
Nature Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:14 AM PDT
Drug company GlaxoSmithKline is setting up a US$25-million, five-year collaboration with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The money will support research as well as a staff exchange programme between the two partners. |
Michigan to decide next month on ballot signatures
Lansing State Journal Wed, 30 Jul 2008 3:11 PM PDT
Supporters of more embryonic stem cell research and sweeping changes to Michigan government will know within a month whether they collected enough valid voter signatures for the November ballot. |
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