Tag: Clinical Trial
Cord blood promises life
A state Senate bill calls for a program to educate expecting parents on the benefits of donating umbilical cord blood to stem cell research.
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Firm takes giant step
FOXBORO - Patients with acute spinal cord injuries could regain partial movement and sensation with the first step of what could be a giant...
Centocor Successor’s Goal: Stem-Cell Treatments
PHILADELPHIA _ Not in her wildest dreams did Anne Faulkner Schoemaker imagine she would one day run the small Malvern, Pa., company on the...
‘I think Allison will walk again’
Dr. John Kessler was working in his office when he received word his daughter, Allison, had been seriously hurt in a skiing accident.
Kessler is...
‘Smart’ prosthetics: restoring independence to people with disabilities
People with paralysis can stand and move without a wheelchair. They can operate computers to read email and play video games. Brown University neuroscientist...
Carpenter transforms stem cells, self
Melissa Carpenter of Novocell transforms stem cells and herself.
Life is transformed in the stem cell laboratories of Melissa Carpenter.
"These cells are the coolest cells...
Stem-Cell Refugees
Yanks are flocking to China for therapy
August, 2002. Chuck Melton, a burly 24-year-old factory worker, is living a good life in southern Illinois. He...
Synapse expands business in Oberlin
Biomedical firm lands $4M in extra funding
OBERLIN — Synapse Biomedical, developer of an implantable device that allows paralyzed individuals to breathe on their...
Surgery gives quadriplegic ability to breathe on his own
VANCOUVER — Bob Blair bears an uncanny facial resemblance to Christopher Reeve and on top of that, he, like Reeve, was paralysed in a...
Stem cell research in India
WITH conservative Christians in the US succeeding in influencing the Bush administration into putting hurdles in the path of stem cell research on “flimsy...
