This video tells the inspiring story of Tom Howing in his own words. Howing took part in Forty Seven, Inc.'sCIRM-funded clinical trial that's testing an innovative treatment for cancer. In the two minute…
You'd think getting a cancer diagnosis and the subsequent chemo and/or radiation therapy is traumatic enough. But many people receiving cancer therapy also suffer from so-called chemobrain, a condition marked…
On December 10, 2009, the CIRM Governing Board heard from Dr. Michael Clarke about cancer stems cells. Dr. Clarke is associate director of the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell and…
Researchers funded by CIRM developed a novel way of generating induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. The technique involves a genetic molecule called a microRNA to activate genes required to reprogram…
Blue H2O Productions In recent years researchers have found cancer stem cells at the heart of blood cancers as well as some cancers of the brain, breast, colon, head and…
