The 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology has been awarded to John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka, “for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent”.
A pluripotent cell…
Having heard about the promise of stem cell technology, many people aren’t prepared to wait for their safe development.
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This week, ABC Radio National’s Background Briefing highlights the challenges involved in delivering on the promise of stem cell science and regenerative medicine. Although scientists continue to make…
Part of a Greenpeace protest at the European Patents Office in Munich. Greenpeace brought the case that has resulted in the European ruling.
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The European Court of Justice has today banned patenting of stem cell inventions derived from human embryos which are capable of developing into a human being.
The court held that this exclusion from…
We aren’t quite in the place to say stem cell therapy can treat osteoarthritis and related conditions, in dogs or humans.
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A recent article published in the Herald Sun newspaper reported anecdotal evidence of animals almost crippled from arthritis or joint damage recovering their function after stem cell therapy.
Although…
