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Major Improvements Made In Engineering Heart Repair Patches From Stem Cells
October 9, 2009 | Categories: Research |University of Washington (UW) researchers, including Dr. Charles “Chuck” Murry, professor of pathology and bioengineering, have succeeded in engineering human tissue patches free of some problems that have stymied stem-cell repair for […] Read More
Laflamme Receives $20,000 Stem Cell Research Grant
July 1, 2009 | Categories: Announcements |Perkins Coie announced that it has presented its $20,000 “Award for Discovery” to Michael A. Laflamme, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology in the University of Washington School of Medicine, […] Read More
Fate Therapeutics, a company started in Seattle with intellectual property from ISCRM, has announced its first clinical trials
May 15, 2009 | Categories: Announcements |Fate Therapeutics, a La Jolla, CA-based biotech startup tapping advances in stem cell biology to develop new drugs, says it has gained exclusive rights to technology involving blood-forming stem cells […] Read More
Seattle researchers applaud lifting of stem-cell restrictions
March 10, 2009 | Categories: Research |Researchers in Seattle who work with embryonic stem cells reacted with scientific relief and personal jubilation to President Obama’s decision Monday to reverse Bush-era restrictions that have hobbled their field […] Read More
Test may predict cancer response to anemia drugs
June 1, 2008 | Categories: Research |A genetic test may help predict whether giving cancer patients anemia drugs could make their cancer worse, U.S. researchers said on Sunday. Over the past year and a half, eight […] Read More
Stem-cell breakthrough may help UW researchers
November 21, 2007 | Categories: Research |A new method for creating embryonic stem cells would put a host of research projects on a fast track at the University of Washington, where scientists have been limited by […] Read More
US: Keeping stem cell research alive
October 21, 2007 | Categories: Research |In an era of reduced federal funding in America for medical research, scientists at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle were thrilled to receive a $10 million grant from […] Read More
Private funds keep stem cell research viable in Seattle
September 28, 2007 | Categories: Announcements |Imagine injecting a heart attack victim with cells that can immediately rebuild the damaged heart, regenerating a damaged spinal cord to restore movement to a paralytic or curing a disorder […] Read More
NIGMS awards University of Washington $10 million for human embryonic stem cell research
September 4, 2007 | Categories: Announcements |The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), one of the National Institutes of Health, has funded a new research program at the University of Washington focused on the study […] Read More
Human derived stem cells can repair rat hearts damaged by heart attack
August 27, 2007 | Categories: Research |When human heart muscle cells derived from embryonic stem cells are implanted into a rat after a heart attack, they can help rebuild the animal’s heart muscle and improve function […] Read More