Imagine buckets of liposuctioned fats from cosmetic surgery clinics. Those fats can actually be a source of stem cells that regenerate tissues - which can potentially be used to repair defects and...

Funded by a $6.2 million grant from the Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation (DRWF) and constructed by Ryan Companies, U.S., the DRWF Islet Resource Facility is a biosecure animal facility in...

In a policy paper published in PLoS Medicine, Loane Skene, Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne, Australia, discusses whether it is ethical for scientists to conduct or benefit from...

Cytori Therapeutics, a biotech firm developing stem and regenerative cell therapies for cardiovascular diseases treated their first patient in a hospital in Spain as part of Cytori's randomized...

For the first time, a three-dimensional human cardiac tissue complete with blood vessels have been constructed using human embryonic stem cells. This offers potentials for use in studies of cardiac...

Scientists from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School have discovered a new source of stems cells which may be used to create muscle, bone, fat, blood vessel, nerve...

Most cases of lower back pain are due to intervertebral disc degeneration, wherein the soft tissue separating the vertebrae of the spine become dry and inflexible. Current treatment options only...

Using a swine model, dental scientists have been able to regenerate tooth root and supporting periodontal ligaments and restore tooth function using stem cells derived from wisdom teeth. The...

Scientists have confirmed that adult hair-follicle-derived stem cells (also called epidermal neural crest stem cells) may be used as an alternative to embryonic stem cells (ESC). Similar to embryonic...

Using mice models, scientists have transplanted photoreceptor-precursor cells directly into the retina of the eyes, thus restoring visual function. Rather than injecting undifferentiated and...

What: 2nd Annual Stem Cell Summit When: Feb. 12-13, 2007 Where: Wyndham San Diego at Emerald Plaza This two-day conference is expected to bring together more than 35 companies as well as physicians...

University of Pittsburgh researchers are exploring the potential of using fat-derived stem cells to regenerate new breast tissue. If successful, this approach may represent a better option to...

Scientists have identified a protein that acts as a regulator and prevent skin stem cells from maturing into epidermal, sebaceous or hair cells. "When we compared the list of genes that Tcf3...

Advance Cell Technology, the biotech firm who has recently announced having successfully generated embryonic stem cell lines without destroying the embryos, now says it has used human embryonic stem...

The 61st issue of Tangled Bank, a carnival of science blogs, is hosted at Epigenetic News. I see a number of submitted entries which I think would also be of interest to Biotech Weblog readers:...

Scientists have developed a technique that allows stem cell lines to be produced from cells extracted from early (8-10 cell) stage embryos. The new method, described in a paper published in this...

Singapore biotech company , ES Cell International Pte Limited (ESI), has produced four new clinically-compliant human embryonic stem cell (hESC), with another four lines in the pipeline. Previously...

President Bush exercised his first veto overriding Congress's Bill HR810 to loosen funding restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research. An excerpt from his message delivered during a White...

Scientists have identified a potential new source of multipotent adult stem cells: hair follicles. The mutipotent stem cells grow as masses the investigators call hair spheres. After growing the...