Liao's crusade led to the first stem cell treatment for epidermolysis bullosa, also known as EB.
The company announced that its first stem cell product to enter clinical trials, PDA-001, recently showed very early and very dramatic results in a few Crohn's disease patients.
At Cornell University, researchers are experimenting with using 3D printers to print food that could be eaten by astronauts in space, and scientists in Edinburgh successfully 3D-printed embryonic stem cells for the first time, demonstrating how 3D-printing technology could one day eliminate the need for organ donation.
This morning, Geron of Menlo Park, for years a leading company in embryonic stem cell research, announced that the first patient had been dosed in a study of its embryonic stem cell treatment for spinal cord injury.
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Two years later, though, one researcher derived the first human embryonic stem cells by turning to private funding.
Geron's treatment for spinal cord injury was the first human embryonic stem cell therapy to receive FDA approval for a clinical trial.
It is even possible that the first wave of stem cell backlash resulted in raised consciousness and new money in California and Massachusetts.
He used to be in charge at Geron and helped fund the research which led to first human embryonic stem cell line being created in 1998 and now heads another company, BioTime.
"It is too early to offshore a new industry before it is born, " says Andrew Grove, an Intel Corp. founder and one of the first to fund stem-cell study despite the feds' ban.
Just as some pharmas may be relieved they resisted investing in the first round of stem cell technologies, for instance, they might be similarly inclined to adopt a watchful waiting posture, and give the field some time to settle out.
Spitzer said that AIG was at the "center of the web" of transactions that have forced a massive bailout of the U.S. financial system, and that the insurer's woes stem from financial practices he first investigated as New York's attorney general.
James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin, who co-wrote the paper in Science and created the first human embryonic stem cells a decade ago, said on a conference call that these new cells are going to be "very powerful" in testing new medicines.
"It is too early to offshore a new industry before it is born, " says Andrew Grove, an Intel Corp. (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) founder and one of the first to fund stem-cell study despite the feds' ban.
The lead company developing the cells as treatments, Geron, just recently started the very first trial of embryonic stem cells in humans, to treat spinal cord injury.
Geron's current CEO, Thomas Okarma , believes the first uses of embryonic stem cells as a therapy will have to make use of powerful drugs that suppress the immune system.
The first solid evidence implicating stem cells in cancer came in the early 1990s when John Dick, a stem cell researcher at the University of Toronto, developed a method for transplanting cancerous human bone marrow cells into mice.
Now the first clinical trial of embryonic stem cells, by Geron of Menlo Park California, has started after years of delay.
The study was also the first to find AID in stem cells, suggesting it plays a role in the early stages of development.
The first practical application of embryonic stem cells was to provide a way for the gene-targeting trick invented by Dr Capecchi and Dr Smithies to be used to produce adult mice lacking particular genes or knockout mice, as they are now called.
The world's first official trial using human embryonic stem cells in patients has been halted.
Even if he can make either kind of stem cell produce insulin, it would at first only help a minority of diabetics, Melton says.
Earlier this week a team in the U.S. led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov of the Oregon National Primate Research Center, announced they had created the first cloned monkey embryo and extracted stem cells from it.
The first step in raising the profile of STEM professionals is getting the mainstream media on board.
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Its submission to the US Food and Drug Administration to conduct the first trial in patients of human embryonic stem cells was the largest and most complex ever submitted.
The charges, as first reported by the New York Times, stem from testimony Clemens gave before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in 2008.
When it comes to people, said Dr. Hsieh, it might be similarly effective to give the therapy in the first week after a heart attack, when stem-cell activity is highest.
During the six years he ran the NIH under George W. Bush, Zerhouni, a pioneering radiologist raised and educated in Algeria, set the first rules for funding research on human embryonic stem cells and banned NIH scientists from taking big industry consulting fees.
The jobless initiative appears to be phase two of the government's strategy to stem Britain's startlingly dire economic decline, the first being Gordon Brown's announcement in October to invest government money in cash-strapped British banks, including Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB.
They first asked for a 20% salary hike to stem a brain drain.
It is the first FDA-approved clinical trial to inject fetal stem cells directly into the spinal cord of an adult.
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