Stanford University

Clinical Trial of Hope at Stanford -- guest blogger Roman Reed

by Amy Adams on January 25, 2011 at 10:44AM | 0 comments

Under the direction of Dr. Gary Steinberg, an advance long considered impossible is moving forward today: Stanford announced yesterday that it will participate in Geron's human clinical safety trials for a novel treatment for spinal cord injury. These are safety trials to be sure and not efficacy trials, more tests will need to be run, but this is already farther along than ever before.

To understand what this means to me, jump back in timeâ¦

Genetic regions guide embryonic stem cell development

by Amy Adams on December 17, 2010 at 10:31AM | 0 comments

Joanna Wysocka

Federal stem cell legislation unlikely in lame duck session

by Amy Adams on November 3, 2010 at 1:56PM | 0 comments

Science had a story this morning about what yesterday's elections mean for stem cell funding. In it they suggest it's unlikely that the lame duck congressional session will bring legislation to expressly legalize federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, writing:

More stem cell research space = jobs and therapies

by Amy Adams on October 27, 2010 at 12:12PM | 0 comments

The Lorry I.

Victoria-California stem cell collaboration tames the immune system

by Amy Adams on October 25, 2010 at 8:00AM | 0 comments

The Victoria, Australia, innovation Minister Gavin Jennings is talking up a Victoria-California research team working to develop a therapy for autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis.

Knocking out leukemia stem cells

by Amy Adams on October 20, 2010 at 11:24AM | 0 comments

A good report about bone marrow transplantation in progress comes from the National Hockey League, of all places. Mandi Schwartz, a Yale women's hockey player, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and is being treated at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.

In the name of full disclosure, that's the center that cured my mother's lymphoma, so let's just say I'm a fan.

Basic research and the search for cures

by Amy Adams on October 18, 2010 at 11:44AM | 0 comments

Two interesting reports today discuss the relationship between basic research and the kind of translational research that is the most visible sign of progress toward cures.

In his blog, the director of the bay area biotech collaborative QB3 Regis Kelly writes about public speakers at the Translational Medicine Alliance speaking out against basic research. He says:

Stem cell videos make the grade

by Amy Adams on October 16, 2010 at 12:46PM | 0 comments

One amazing aspect of living in the era of social media is the incredible way information spreads. A butterfly batting its little orange wings in a monarch grove in Santa Cruz could influence a tweet of a blogger heard 'round the world.

Growing space for California stem cell research

by Amy Adams on October 15, 2010 at 3:26PM | 0 comments

On left and right, Berkeley Stem Cell Center co-directors
David Schaffer and Randy Shekman, and center,

Nobel-winning IVF work laid groundwork for stem cell research

by Amy Adams on October 6, 2010 at 9:05AM | 0 comments

On Monday the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Robert Edwards for his efforts to make in vitro fertilization a reality. The Nobel Prize-winning discovery not only allowed millions of couples to start families, it opened up the field of stem cell research.

According to the Nobel Prize press release: