Reading Time: 2 minutes One human neural stem cell line that has cleared the US Government’s regulatory hurdles is that developed by the biotechnology company Neuralstem. To date, nine
Day: 27 January 2011
Reading Time: 2 minutes The remainder of the morning covered some of the preclinical research that has laid the foundations for current and forthcoming clinicalstudies. Prof Clive Svendsen, from University Wisconsin-Madison, gave an
Reading Time: < 1 minute The possibility of using stem cells for drug screening was covered in more detail by Prof Chris Henderson from Columbia University New York. Prof Henderson has
Reading Time: 2 minutes Creating motor neurones for research is a lengthy and expensive process, so Prof Kevin Eggan from Harvard University Massachusetts, asked whether we can predict at an
Reading Time: 2 minutes It was a chilly -15oC in New York on Sunday night, but the temperature on Monday morning was considerably higher – fuelled in part by