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Fresh From the Bench: Latest Precedential Patent Case
CASE OF THE WEEK Medtronic, Inc. et al. v. Teleflex Innovations S.A.R.L., Appeal Nos. 2021-2356, -2358, -2361, -2363, and -2365 (Fed. Cir. May 24, 2023) In this week’s Case of...
ANDA Litigation: Navigating the Complexities of Patents and Generic Drug Approvals
In the world of pharmaceuticals, the Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) process plays a critical role in the approval and market entry of generic drugs. However, the intersection...
FDA Approves Qalsody™ for Treatment of ALS
Written by: Douglas W. Crandell, Ph.D. & Robert J. Hilton, Ph.D. On April 25th, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved QalsodyTM (tofersen) for the...
Brain Computer Interface Developer Announces $33M Series A, Granted FDA “Breakthrough” Designation
Written by:Tom Cowan Brain computer interface developer Paradromics on May 18, 2023, announced a $33 million Series A funding round as well as a...
If a Case Was Baseless, It Would Have Ended Sooner
Written by: Matthew Pham & Daniel P. Hughes OneSubsea IP UK Limited v. FMC Technologies, Inc. Before Clevenger, Moore, and Dyk. Appeal from the United States District...
Feed tagged as "stem cells":
Jokes aside, new research has finally uncovered a drug that can generate unlimited numbers of new heart cells from stem cells. Called ITD-1, the new compound is a... Read More »
Stem cells divide and renew throughout life. But, that doesn’t mean they don’t age; stem cells do gradually lose their ability to renew. Now, researchers... Read More »
A new study gives insight into how how stem cells differentiate. New findings show that embryonic stem cells must be fully able to compact the chromatin inside of... Read More »
Here’s the top medical news of this week!
Promising new HIV treatments give hope for eventual cure
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)... Read More »
Scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have transplanted brain cancer patients' own gene-modified blood stem cells in order to protect their bone... Read More »
A seven-year-old girl is experiencing a reversal of her aplastic bone marrow after undergoing a placental-based cell treatment. Aplastic bone marrow is a condition... Read More »
Scientists have finally pinpointed the molecular cause of a painful and often devastating condition that affects 60 percent of women by the age of 45. Researchers at... Read More »
Here’s your weekly roundup of hot medical news!
Mending a broken heart with stem cells and microRNAs
Just like a deep wound causes a scar to... Read More »
Scientists at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Ulm University of Medicine in Germany have rejuvenated aged hematopoietic stem cells, making it possible for... Read More »
Researchers from University of California, Davis demonstrated the safety and efficacy of transplanting anti-HIV stem cells into mouse models in a new study. The... Read More »
Just like a deep wound causes a scar to form on the skin’s surface, the damage sustained during a heart attack can lead to scarring of the heart’s tissue. ... Read More »
In 2009, Barack Obama issued Executive Order 13505, which allowed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop guidelines for the funding and development... Read More »
Here's your weekly roundup of hot medical news...
Kidney transplant breakthroughs
For the first time, a kidney that had been donated to... Read More »
A new University of Southern California study outlines a specific mechanism for controlling autoimmune disorders with infusions of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs)... Read More »
Scientists from the Danish Stem Cell Center at the University of Copenhagen and Hagedorn Research Institute have gained new insight into the signaling paths that... Read More »
A new embryonic stem cell line developed at the University of Michigan has just been placed on the US National Institutes of Health's registry, making the cells... Read More »
Regenerative medicine describes a relatively new avenue of biomedical and clinical research, involving the discovery of novel techniques to restore lost tissue... Read More »
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Sarfraz Ahmadfinding ways to reactivate stem cells and control their target destination might create unforeseen opportunities for curing degenerative diseases
Apr 25, 2012
Two growth factors cooperate to maintain a pool of neuron-generating stem cells in the brain, according to a study by researchers at the University of Medicine and... Read More »
Scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have successfully demonstrated the ability of neural stem cells to target tumor cells outside... Read More »
Columbia University Medical Center researchers have identified a molecular pathway responsible for the retention and release of the brain’s stem cells. This... Read More »
