These past few days post-World Stem Cell Summit has seen a lot of activity online from patient advocates who attended the meeting. One goal of that meeting is specifically to update the advocates on what's happening in stem cell research and also empower people to speak up about the value of the research. Bernie Siegel, … Continue reading Patient advocates report in on the World Stem Cell Summit

The University of California, Irvine has begun posting video interviews with their stem cell institute director Peter Donovan (You can see all of those videos here.). Of the eight interviews, including ones with former CIRM board chair Robert Klein and leading UCI stem cell researchers, one of the most moving is with Huntington's Disease advocate … Continue reading Video describes life with Huntington’s disease, hopes for stem cell therapies

Stem Cell Awareness Day on Wednesday brought scientists to close to 60 classrooms to deliver lectures on stem cell science and inspired events throughout the world, some of which are ongoing throughout October. (You can see a full list of events here.)The Daily Pilot had a nice story on an event at University of California, … Continue reading Stem Cell Awareness Day introduces high school students to heros

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Each month CIRM President Alan Trounson gives his perspective on recently published papers he thinks will be valuable in moving the field of stem cell research forward. This month’s report, along with an archive of past reports, is available on the CIRM website.Much good science and important science does not qualify as a “breakthrough.” Turning … Continue reading Guest blogger Alan Trounson — September’s stem cell research highlights

The World Stem Cell Summit is going on now in Pasadena. This is the primary meeting for pulling together scientists and patient advocates to talk about progress in the field.CIRM has transformed our booth into a mini recording studio to film interviews with advocates and scientists at the meeting. They talk about the importance of … Continue reading CIRM video journal of the World Stem Cell Summit

Stay tuned for a Stem Cell Awareness Day event near you. October 5 will bring stem cell lectures, tours and symposia to nearly 40 locations around the world. So far, there are events in six countries, five U.S. states and at least 25 locations in California, and more are being added every day. You can … Continue reading Stem Cell Awareness Day October 5, 2011

Last week CIRM grantees at University of California Berkeley published a follow-up to some of my favorite stem cell research. I'm speaking personally here as a runner who is getting older and would like to turn my race recovery back to what it was in my youth. Irina Conboy started investigating the slow response of … Continue reading Rolling back the clock on muscle disease, aging

The North County Times in had a nice story today about the effect of CIRM funding in the San Diego area. Bradley Fikes wrote:In San Diego County, one of the country's top three centers of biomedicine, researchers say CIRM has greatly boosted stem cell science's profile and magnitude. That commitment is producing advances that will … Continue reading San Diego stem cell community gets a boost from CIRM

Last week the company Sangamo Biosciences announced good results from their HIV/AIDS trial in which they genetically altered patients' own T-cells. CIRM is following this trial closely, since it's the precursor to one being developed by a team of CIRM-funded researchers led by John Zaia at City of Hope that includes Sangamo. According to Discover … Continue reading Progress in stem cell therapy for HIV/AIDS