Researchers at Northwestern University’s Institute for Bio Nanotechnology in Medicine has developed a small, self-assembled sac. The environment in the sac has the potential to mimic the niche. The niche is an environment that keeps a stem cell.
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Hwang’s Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in South Korea and Bio Arts International (animal and human genomic industry) are going to start a dog breeding business in partnership. Bio Arts announced that they are going to start an auction from June 18th, where dog owners can bid a minimum of $100,000 for the right to have their dogs cloned.
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Germany’s lower house of parliament, has passed the new law for the benefit of the stem cell researchers. It allows the stem cell researchers to use the stem cell made before May 1, 2007. German stem cell researchers so far were allowed to work with the stem cell made before the year 2002. So, stem cell researchers can now work on a broader horizon.
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Limb Muscular dystrophy is most common and severe type of muscular dystrophy. It affects one in 3500 boys. These are inherited group of progressive myopathic disorders which are formed due to defective number of genes required for normal muscle function.
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Today stem cell treatment has become an amazing mode of medical treatment. It has provided cure for many degenerative diseases like cancer, diabetes etc. Now, it has become successful in providing a cure for Osteoarthritis or better known as Degenerative arthritis.
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Recent researchers discovered a trick that is used by tumour cells to migrate round the body, causing normal adult cell to act like stem cells.
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The California based Garon Corporation announced to delay its human trial of the embryonic stem cell last week after the company had received an oral directive from the Food and Drug Association. As reason to the delay, the authority told that they have to obtain a strong and effective evidence of the effectiveness of the stem cell treatment to move towards the human trial. It can be added that so far no embryonic stem cell had been tested on human being.
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The researchers at the University of Southern California have found that the the embryonic stem cell will remain undifferentiated if they are shielded from differentiation signals. By applying the small molecules that block the chemicals from activating the differentiation process, the natural default of the cell is to self-renew, or multiply, as generic stem cells. Also the study finds how embryonic stem cell can be regulated. Thus the study shows a complete new understanding about the growth of stem cell in the lab.
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The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has decided to spend $271 million grants to set up a number of stem cell labs to facilitate stem cell research across the state. A grant of $43.5 million has been approved for Stanford University alone. Thus it is likely to have a major boost in stem cell research.
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On 8th May 2008, Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund (MSCRF) has approved 62 projects for funding under the Maryland Stem Cell Research Act of 2006. “All of the proposals considered by the Commission had already been judged to have high scientific merit, through the scientific peer review processed” said Linda Powers, chairperson of the Commission.
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