Dr. Robert Vescio spoke to CIRM's governing board to promote awareness about amyloidosis, a rare, often fatal disease caused by the abnormal deposit of proteins called amyloids in various tissues…
Michael York, star of films such as Cabaret, Logan's Run, and Austin Powers, spoke to the California stem cell agency governing board about his personal battle with amyloidosis, a rare,…
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most severe form of muscular dystrophy that affects 1 in 3500 boys and leads to progressive muscle degeneration and death by the second decade…
On July 9th 2013, Calimmune announced they had treated the first patient in a clinical trial involving the use of an innovative gene-based stem cell therapy to help protect individuals…
On July 9th 2013, Calimmune announced they had treated the first patient in a clinical trial involving the use of an innovative gene-based stem cell therapy to help protect individuals…
On July 9th 2013, Calimmune announced they had treated the first patient in a clinical trial involving the use of an innovative gene-based stem cell therapy to help protect individuals…
One percent of live births have heart defects, the leading noninfectious cause of death in the 1st year. Using embryonic stem cell technology, Dr. Deepak Srivastava's lab has made many…
Long-term stem cell-based strategies for heart disease aim to rebuild parts of the heart. But investigators like Deepak Srivastava are also looking into more near term goals to regenerate heart…
The day before 9/11, just four months pregnant, Mary Goulart and her husband learned through ultrasounds that their baby had several heart defects including a missing left ventricle. After birth,…
Dr. Tom Lane of the University of Utah (formerly a CIRM grantee at UC-Irvine) describes his lab's experimental results that show a dramatic reversal in the debilitating effects of a…
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