This blog is part of the Month of CIRM series Speeding up the way you do things isn’t always a good idea. Just ask someone who got a ticket for going 65mph in a 30mph zone. But at CIRM we have found that doing things at an accelerated pace is paying off in a big … Continue reading Getting faster, working smarter: how changing the way we work is paying big dividends
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Stem Cell Tools: Helping Scientists Understand Complex Diseases
Yesterday, we discussed a useful stem cell tool called the CIRM iPSC Repository, which will contain over 3000 human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines - from patients and healthy individuals - that contain a wealth of information about human diseases. Now that scientists have access to these lines, they need the proper tools to … Continue reading Stem Cell Tools: Helping Scientists Understand Complex Diseases
Stem Cell Tools: Helping Scientists Model Complex Diseases
This blog is part of the Month of CIRM series and the first of two blogs focused on how CIRM-funded infrastructure initiatives are developing useful tools to advance stem cell research. Human stem cells are powerful tools for studying human disease. Animal models like mice have been and continue to be important for studying physiological … Continue reading Stem Cell Tools: Helping Scientists Model Complex Diseases
Streamlining Stem Cell Therapy Development for Impatient Patients
During this third week of the Month of CIRM, we are focusing on CIRM’s Infrastructure programs which are all focused on helping to accelerate stem cell treatments to patients with unmet medical needs. Time is money. It’s a cliché but still very true, especially in running a business. The longer it takes to get things … Continue reading Streamlining Stem Cell Therapy Development for Impatient Patients
Building California’s stem cell research community, from the ground up
For week three of the Month of CIRM, our topic is infrastructure. What is infrastructure? Read on for a big picture overview and then we’ll fill in the details over the course of the week. When CIRM was created in 2001, our goal was to grow the stem cell research field in California. But to … Continue reading Building California’s stem cell research community, from the ground up
Saving Ronnie: Stem Cell & Gene Therapy for Fatal Bubble Baby Disease [Video]
During this second week of the Month of CIRM, we’ve been focusing on the people who are critical to accomplishing our mission to accelerate stem cell treatments to patients with unmet medical needs. These folks include researchers, like Clive Svendsen and his team at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center who are working tirelessly to develop a stem … Continue reading Saving Ronnie: Stem Cell & Gene Therapy for Fatal Bubble Baby Disease [Video]
Stem Cell Awareness Day: Past, Present, Future
In 2008, the then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared Sept. 25 to be Stem Cell Awareness Day. In the proclamation he said, ”The discoveries being made today in our Golden State will have a great impact on many around the world for generations to come.” In the years since, we have moved steadily towards turning … Continue reading Stem Cell Awareness Day: Past, Present, Future
Can Stem Cell Therapies Help ALS Patients?
A scientist’s fifteen-year journey to develop a stem cell-based therapy that could one day help ALS patients. “Can stem cells help me Clive?” The sentence appeared slowly on a computer screen, each character separated by a pause while its author searched for the next character using a device controlled by his eye muscle. The person … Continue reading Can Stem Cell Therapies Help ALS Patients?
Stem Cell Stories that Caught Our Eye: New law to protect consumers; using skin to monitor blood sugar; and a win for the good guys
New law targets stem cell clinics that offer therapies not approved by the FDA For some time now CIRM and others around California have been warning consumers about the risks involved in going to clinics that offer stem cell therapies that have not been tested in a clinical trial or approved by the U.S. Food … Continue reading Stem Cell Stories that Caught Our Eye: New law to protect consumers; using skin to monitor blood sugar; and a win for the good guys
CIRM-Funded Clinical Trials Targeting Blood and Immune Disorders
This blog is part of our Month of CIRM series, which features our Agency’s progress towards achieving our mission to accelerate stem cell treatments to patients with unmet medical needs. This week, we’re highlighting CIRM-funded clinical trials to address the growing interest in our rapidly expanding clinical portfolio. Today we are featuring trials in our blood and … Continue reading CIRM-Funded Clinical Trials Targeting Blood and Immune Disorders
The Stem Cellar 