2002 News Archives
December 26
- Kidneys May Be Made from Pig Stem Cells (AAP)
December 21
- Word War Breaks Out in Research on Stem Cells (New York Times)
December 20
- Bone Marrow Stem Cells Used to Create Brain Cells (Reuters)
December 18
- Athersys Wants to Start Center for Stem Cell Research (Plain Dealer)
December 16
- ISU Researchers Say Stem Cells Grew in Opossums (Sioux City Journal)
December 13
- Stanford to Develop Human Stem Cells, Despite White House Objections (ABC News)
- New Stanford Institute Is to Study Controversial Stem Cell Manipulation (New York Times)
- Stanford University Scientists Irked Over ‘Misunderstanding’ by Media (ABC News) (AP)
- U Stem Cell Rights Purchased (Minnesota Daily)
- Use of Embryonic Stem Cells Premature (Mainichi Shimun)
December 12
- ‘Politically Correct’ Stem Cell Is Licensed to Biotech Concern (New York Times)
- University of Minnesota Grants Rights to Develop Adult Stem-Cell Technology (Pioneer Press)
December 10
December 09
December 06
- Cloned Stem Cells Could ‘Reboot’ Immune System (Reuters)
December 02
- Senate Debating Stem Cell Laws (The Advertiser) (ABC News)
November 18
- Stem Cells Treat Diabetes in Mice (MSNBC)
Novemeber15
- Stem Cell Companies Struggle to Survive (AP)
- Shift in Government Control Raises Questions About Stem-Cell Research (Badger Herald)
November12
- Stem Cell Transplant Saved Twin (Jamestown Sun)
November 08
- Hatching Plans for Stem-Cell Law (Wired News)
October 29
- Molecule Multiplies Stem Cells in Human Cord Blood (Reuters)
- Stem Cell Hope for Cancer Patients (BBC)
October 23
- Placenta Stem Cell Donations May Benefit Children in Return (The Advocate) (Shreveport Times)
October 17
- Pact to Have Louisiana Hospitals Save Placenta Stem Cells (The Advocate)
September 27
- Prolifers in Australia Hope Senate Will Not Pass Stem Cell Legislation (CNS News)
September 26
- Researchers Grow Teeth from Stem Cells in Mass. Lab (AP)
September 24
- White House Criticizes State Stem Cell Law (Los Angeles Times)
- Australia: NSW MP Cadman Blasts Trounson (Herald Sun)
- Embryo Donations Fuel Stem Cell Debate (Chicago Tribune)
September 20
- Adult Stem Cells Key to Diabetes Cure (Wired News)
- Immune Cells Used to Stop Severe Cancer (Washington Post) (Wired News) (BBC) (United Press International) (Reuters) (WebMD) (HealthScout) (Science Daily) (MSNBC) (AP)
September 18
- From Two Deadly Diseases, a Possible Treatment (Boston Globe)
September 10
- Hopes Raised of Using Adult Stem Cells for Treating Muscular Dystrophy (New York Times)
September 03
- Trapping a Human in a Cell (Washington Times)
- Stem Cells Are Kick in the Teeth for Dentures (IOL)
August 29
- Australia: Rat ‘Error’ Could Cost Research Group (Courier-Mail) (Australian Broadcasting Corp) (Canberra Times)
- UK: Churches Condemn Stem Cell Bank (The Scotsman)
- Australia: Adult Stem Cells Offer Hope to Heart Disease Sufferers (Australian Broadcasting Corp)
August 28
- Pig Cell Transplant in Humans Reduces Need for Insulin (The Star) (NPR) (BBC) (Reuters) (Science Daily) (New Scientist) (WebMD)
- New Nerves from Old (Nature)
- Australia: Anderson Questions Stem Cell Scientist’s Funding (Australian Broadcasting Corp)
August 27
- Bone Marrow Cells Help Mend Stroke Damage in Rats (Reuters) (BBC) (HealthScout)
- Australia: MPs ‘Misled’ on Embryonic Stem Cells (Australian Broadcasting Corp) (Ninemsn) (CNS News)
August 26
- Australia: Quick Decision Unlikely On Australian Embryonic Research (CNS News)
- Umbilical Cord Stem-Cell Banks Start in South Africa (Health24)
August 23
- Adult Stem Cell Gel Could Generate New Cartilage (United Press International)
- Nebraska: Former G.I. Man Heads Coalition Against Fetal Stem Cell Research (The Independent)
August 22
- Australia: Stem Cell Research Like Murder: Liberal MP (Ninemsn)
August 20
- Australia: Parliament Set for Tension-Filled Debate on Stem Cell Bill (Australian Broadcasting Corp)
- Australia: Supporters, Critics Lobby Furiously Ahead Of Embryo Research Debate (CNS News)
August 16
- Univ. of Louisville Success Shows Embryos Unneeded (Kentucky Post)
- Florida: Grant Awarded to Fund Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Studies (Business Journal)
August 15
- Australia: Brisbane Forum Condemns Embryonic Stem Cell Research (Australian Broadcasting Corp) (Canberra Times)
- New Findings Change Understanding of Adult Stem Cells (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
August 14
- Professor Warns on False Stem Cell Hopes (Australian Broadcasting Corp)
August 13
- Australia: Archbishop Pell Weighs into Stem Cell Research Debate (Australian Broadcasting Corp)
August 12
- Australia: Motive ‘to Clone Humans’ (Canberra Times) (The Advertiser) (CNS News)
- Australia: Anderson Rallies Against Stem Cell Research (Australian Broadcasting Corp)
- Critics Lament the State of Embryonic Stem Cell Research (CNN) (NPR) (Wisconsin State Journal)
August 09
August 08
- Teeth Grown from Adult Stem Cells (BBC)
August 06
- Australia: Stick to Adult Stem Cells: Anderson (Canberra Times)
August 05
- Australia: Non-Matching Blood Stem Cells Used to Treat Young Girl (Courier-Mail)
- Embryonic Stem Cells Slow Progress (Newsweek) (USA Today) (Washington Post)
August 01
- EU Delays Financing of Embryonic Stem Cell Research (Reuters)
July 31
- Patients Hail Cell Transplant for Diabetes (Seattle Times)
July 30
- Mesenchymal Stem Cells Tackle Disease Before Birth (BBC) (Independent)
- Kansas: Bone Marrow Stem Cell Transplant Program Fully Accredited (Kansas City Nursing News)
July 29
- Stem-Cell Cloning Not Needed, Says Scientist (The Age – Registration required) (Australia Broadcasting Corp)
- Adult Stem Cells Grow Eye Blood Vessels (AP) (HealthScout) (Reuters) (Union-Tribune) (Nature) (Scripps) (Science Daily) (Cosmiverse)
July 26
- Hydra Bioscience, Inc. Hopes to Profit By Regenerating Human Tissue (Boston Globe)
July 25
- FDA Eases Way for Adult Stem Cells to Help Fight Cancer (Detroit Free Press)
July 24
- Scientists Say Restarting Silent Genes Could Restore Lost Body Parts, Tissue (The Blade)
July 23
- Donating Cells to… Yourself (Washington Post)
July 22
- Adult Stem Cells Save Aussie Babies (News Interactive)
- Tennessee: Baptist, Methodist Now Forming Adult Stem Cell Transplant Programs (Memphis Business Journal)
July 17
- Diabetes Adult Stem Cell Transplants Move Closer (BBC) (Science Daily) (Massachusetts General Hosp)
July 16
- Korea: Government Set to Clear Embryos for Use in Medical Research (Korea Herald)
July 15
- Australia: Stem-Cell Research Law ‘Should Go Through’ (Canberra Times) (News Interactive)
July 12
- Germany’s Strict New Stem Cell Law Takes Effect (Reuters)
July 11
- Australia: Doctors Aim to Cure Paralysis with Nose Cells (BBC) (New Scientist)
July 10
- Umbilical Blood Touted as Alternative to Embryonic Stem Cells (Montreal Gazette)
July 9
- New Step for Stem Cells Company Collects Umbilical Cord Blood (The Advocate)
- Baby Cord Cells Offer Leukemia Breakthrough (The Guardian)
- Umbilical Cord Blood Touted As Alternative (Montreal Gazette)
July 8
- Adult Stem-Cell Feat Lauded By Politicians Awaits Scientific Blessing (Star Tribune) (New York Times)
- UK: Pioneering Placenta and Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Operation Successful (Telegraph) (BBC)
- Doctors at Duke and Elsewhere Using Umbilical-Cord Cells to Save Children (Winston-Salem Journal)
July 3
- Muscle Stem Cells Show Promise Against Muscular Dystrophy (Niams) (Science Daily)
- New Hope for Spinal Cord and Traumatic Brain Injury (Content Wire)
July 2
- Bioengineered Corneal Graft Could Restore Sight (Content Wire)
June 28
- Two ‘Bubble Boy’ Patients Recover with Gene Therapy (Reuters) (AP) (HealthScout) (Washington Post) (Boston Globe)
June 26
- Toddler Given Umbilical Cord Stem-Cell Transplant Doing Well (Dallas Morning News)
- Saving Lives Without Taking Lives: Adult Stem Cells (CBN News)
- Drug ‘Helps Repair Stroke Damage’ (BBC) (WebMD) (HealthScout) (PNAS)
June 21
- New Zealand: Umbilical Cord Blood Bank Gets First Deposit (Dominion)
June 20
- Stem Cell Hopes Double: Embryonic and Adult Stem-Cell Findings May Re-fuel Cloning Debates (Nature) (New York Times) (San Francisco Chronicle) (BBC) (The Guardian) (Telegraph) (VOA) (HealthScout) (Pioneer Press) (Scientific American) (Independent) (New Scientist) (Science Daily)
June 21
- Adult Stem Cells Show Versatility, University of Minnesota Researchers Find (Star Tribune) (Reuters) (Washington Post) (Washington Times) (CNS News) (MSNBC)
- New Zealand: Umbilical Cord Blood Bank Gets First Deposit (Dominion)
June 20
- Pluripotency of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Derived From Adult Marrow (Nature)
- Causing Injured Nerve Cells In Rats To Regenerate (UniSci)
June 18
- Australia: Cancer, AIDS Hope from Epithelium Stem Cell Study (CNN) (Reuters)
- Researchers Use Adult Stem Cells to Repair Vocal Cords (Reuters)
June 17
- Adult Liver Stem Cells May Yield Insulin (Gainsville Sun)
June 07
- Cord Blood Cells Improve Rats’ Neurological Recovery from Brain Injury (Science Daily)
June 06
June 04
- Pancreatic Cells Formed from Liver Stem Cells (Reuters) (HealthScout) (UniSci)
June 03
- Adult Stem Cells from Bone Marrow Can Build Blood Vessels (Times-Union) (Gainesville Sun) (United Press International) (UniSci)
- Australia: Melbourne Scientists Trial Adult Stem Cell Treatment for Cancer (Australia Broadcasting Corp)
- Mature Stem Cell Transplants Linked To Treatment Of Cerebral Palsy (Science Daily)
- Fat Stem Cells Can Become Nerve Cells (United Press International)
May 29
- President’s Council Bioethics Member, Robert P. George, Opposes Stem-Cell Research (Charleston Gazette)
May 27
- Stem Cell Muscular Dystrophy Promise (BBC)
- Debate Over Stem Cell Origins Continues (The Scientist)
May 24
- Adult Cells Grow in Scaffolds to Form New Blood Vessels and Organs (Content Wire)
May 15
- Adult Bone Marrow Stem Cells Coaxed Into Becoming Functioning Liver Cells (Science Daily) (Augusta Chronicle) (Pioneer Press)
May 09
- Liposuction a Novel Source of Stem Cells (MSNBC)
May 08
- Australian Scientists May Be Only 1 Year Away from Clinical Trials for Parkinson’s Using Adult Stem Cells (News Interactive)
April 30
- Adult Cells That Reinvent Themselves (Nature)
April 29
- The Jury’s Still Out on Stem-Cell Therapy (Seattle Times)
April 24
- Cells In Patients’ Noses Hold Potential To Restore Function In Spinal Cord Injury (Science Daily)
- Stanford Team Prevents Tissue Rejection Without Drugs (Science Daily)
April 18
- Focus on Hematopoietic Stem Cells (Nature)
- Retinal Cell Implants Improve Parkinson’s (New Scientist)
April 16
- Cloned Adult Neurons Effective Therapy for Strokes (UniSci)
April 15
- Burgeoning German Biotechnology Sector Courts Scientists (Even With Strictest Laws on Cloning and Embryo Research) (The Scientist)
- Adult Stem Cells Viable (Pioneer Press – Twin Cities)
April 11
- Autologous Neural Stem Cells Improve PD Symptoms (MedScape – registration required)
- Spinal Cord Recovery Hurdle Cleared (Nature)
April 09
- Transplant of Own Stem Cells Helps Parkinson’s Patient (Reuters) (Washington Post) (New Scientist) (BBC) (UniSci) (Science Daily) (UF News)
- Australia: Catholic Church Funds Adult Stem Cell Study (Ninemsn)
April 03
- Canadian Team ‘Supercharges’ Adult Stem Cells (CP)
March 27
- Stem Cells and Neuropoiesis in the Adult Human Brain (The Lancet – registration required)
March 26
- Rats With Partial Parkinson’s Damage In The Brain Show Complete Functional Recovery After Gene Therapy (University of Florida Press Release)
- Researcher Says Media Distorted Adult Stem Cell Studies (CNSNews)
March 22
- Human Hepatic Stem Cells Disclosed at Keystone Symposium: Incara holds license to discovery with promise of treating liver disease (Incara Pharmaceuticals Press Release)
March 15
- Experts Question Studies Suggesting Adult Stem Cells Won’t Work (CNS News)
March 07
- Study: Adult Stem Cells More Versatile (New York Times) (Washington Post) (NPR) (MSNBC)
March 05
- Transplanted Stem Cells Restore Function In Stroke (Science Daily)
- Pluripotent Abilities of Stem Cells From Adult Skin Tissue (Stem Cells)
February 26
- Innovations in Transplantation (MedScape)
- Cord Blood Transplants: Making Do With Less (MedScape)
- Gene-based Therapies for the Induction of Spinal Fusion (MedScape)
February 13
- Tufts University Researchers Engineer First “Custom-Made” Human Knee Ligaments From Adult Stem Cells (Science Daily)
February 11
- Adult Stem Cells Therapy May Grow Reconstructive Tissue (BBC)
February 01
- New Adult Stem Cell Discovered Which Could Show Great Promise (Culture of Life Foundation & Institute)
January 29
- German Churches Reject Import of Stem Cells (Frankfurter Allgemeine)
January 28
- Germany: Compromise Position on Imported Stem Cells Presented (Frankfurter Allgemeine)
- German Debate on Stem-Cell Imports Heats Up as Parliament Decision Nears (Bioresearch)
January 24
- Scientists Develop Ultimate Stem Cell; Alternative to ‘Therapeutic’ Cloning (BBC)
January 23
- Ultimate Stem Cell Discovered; ‘Therapeutic’ Cloning, Embryonic Stem Cell Research Unnecessary (New Scientist)
January 15
- Doctor Gets Grant for Adult Stem-Cell Research (Journal News)
January 14
- Germany: State Premier Urges CDU to Prevent Stem Cell Imports (Frankfurter Allgemeine)
January 03
- Human Heart Can Heal Itself (New York Medical College)
- A Tour Around Stem Cell Research (Pharmalicensing)