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Opinion: Stem Cell News -- Hype Over Science

(Oct. 14) -- "First Patient Treated With Stem Cells," blares one headline. "First Patient Treated in Stem Cell Study," shouts another. They're bogus. It was actually the first human trial using embryonic stem cells, or ESCs. Their Cinderella stepsister, adult stem cells, or ASCs, have already seen thousands of human...

First Patient Has Experimental Stem Cell Procedure

(Oct. 11) -- A patient suffering from a spinal cord injury has become the first recipient of an experimental, and highly controversial, human embryonic stem cell treatment. Geron Corp., the biopharmaceutical group behind the phase I clinical trial, made the groundbreaking announcement earlier today. The company is the...

FDA Greenlights Geron to Begin First Human Trials of Embryonic Stem Cell Treatment

(July 30) -- The Food and Drug Administration has cleared biotech firm Geron to perform the first human trials of a medical treatment based on embryonic stem cells. Patients with recently sustained spinal cord injuries will be the first to undergo the company's stem cell therapy, called GRNOPC1. The trial was initially...

Background on Geron

Gerontology (from the Greek , geron, "old man" and -λογία, -logy, "study of"; coined by Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov in 1903) is the study of the social, psychological and biological aspects of aging.

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