Senate leaders from both parties Thursday agreed to schedule a vote on a package of bills that would loosen President Bush’s 5-year-old restrictions on human embryonic stem-cell research.

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Shenzhen Beike Biotechnology Co., Ltd. announced the successful treatment of two similar spinal cord injury patients using two different procedures that involved umbilical cord stem cells.

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The Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative which has been voted unanimously by the St. Louis Rabbinical Association, would “ensure Missouri patients have access to any therapies and cures, and allow Missouri researchers to conduct any research, permitted under federal law; ban human cloning or attempted cloning; require expert medical and public oversight and annual reports on the nature and purpose of stem cell research; impose criminal and civil penalties for any violations; and prohibit state or local governments from preventing or discouraging lawful stem cell research, therapies and cures.”
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In a dramatic display of stem cells’ potential for healing, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists reports that they’ve engineered new, completed, fully-working motor neuron circuits — neurons stretching from spinal cord to target muscles — in paralyzed adult animals.

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Despite their celebrated “immortality,” the capacity of embryonic stem (ES) cells for endless division has its limits. After a very extended childhood spent dividing in a culture dish, even stem cells tend to grow up and assume adult roles as workaday nerve, muscle, or blood cells, never to return to their youthful state.

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BioEden (registered with the FDA), is the first fully operational processing laboratory and storage bank for primary teeth stem cells to open in the U.S. Their state-of-the-art facilities are located in Austin, Texas, and will serve children and their families nationwide. BioEden is also the only cell storage facility willing to guarantee their services.

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Karim Nayernia, who is relocating from Germany to take up the post of Professor of Stem Cell Biology at Newcastle University, is carrying out pioneering work that has the potential to lead to future therapies for a range of medical conditions such as heart disease, Parkinson’s Disease and male infertility.

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Brandyn Orr, 12, of Mesa was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 2 years old and relapsed when he was 6. He was treated with an umbilical cord blood transplant using the blood collected during the birth of his brother Devyn, 7.

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Ortec International said Tuesday (20th June) the European patent office has granted the firm a patent on its Fibrin Microbead technology for isolating certain types of adult stem cells. The technology has previously been granted five U.S. patents.

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Scientists (Dr. Douglas Kerr, a neurologist at Johns Hopkins University who led the work being published on Monday in the journal Annals of Neurology) have used stem cells and a soup of nerve-friendly chemicals not only to bridge a damaged spinal cord but also re-grow the circuitry needed to move a muscle, helping partially paralysed rats walk.

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