http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs.aspxen-AUCopyright 2010 Australian Stem Cell Centre LimitedMon, 06 Sep 2010 05:18:10 GMTWith the internet being as accessible and unregulated as it is, here at the ASCC we often receive calls and e-mails from people trying to sort out which stem cell treatments offered are based on facts, and which are fiction.http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/TravelStemCellsandtheASCCsHandbook.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/TravelStemCellsandtheASCCsHandbook.aspxMon, 14 Dec 2009 04:39:37 GMTUS company Geron has announced it will be commencing a trial using embryonic stem cells on spinal cord patients. The first trial of its kind. http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/FirstHumanEmbryonicStemCellTrialsintheUS.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/FirstHumanEmbryonicStemCellTrialsintheUS.aspxThu, 29 Jan 2009 13:00:00 GMTBack in January 2010 the ASCC reported on an ABC news story which focused on a young Canberra man with severe MS who made a substantial recovery after receiving stem cell therapy. Here is an update.http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/StemcelltherapyforMSudate.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/StemcelltherapyforMSudate.aspxWed, 19 May 2010 00:11:08 GMTSci-fi films are a lot of fun - but they also have a lot of answer for! It's National Science Week and we've launched our Back to Schools program and Teachers' Kit, new resources to help bring fiction in line with fact. http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/Misswhatsastemcell.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/Misswhatsastemcell.aspxFri, 20 Aug 2010 03:35:47 GMTRecent media attention has focused on an organisation known as Stem Cell Biomedics who are advertising information seminars in Perth and Sydney on unproven risky rabbit fetus stem cell 'therapies'. Stem cell experts warn that therapies offered by visiting European practitioners are unproven, potentially dangerous and illegal in Australia. http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/rabbit.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/rabbit.aspxThu, 29 Apr 2010 22:25:19 GMTIt seems that there have been certain claims made recently suggesting that bovine colostrum enhances stem cell proliferation and therefore cures, or at least alleviates your ills.http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/stemcellsandcolostrum.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/stemcellsandcolostrum.aspxFri, 25 Sep 2009 03:34:58 GMTDifferences found between iPS cells and emrbyonic stem cells.http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/iPSCellsRemembertheirPast.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/iPSCellsRemembertheirPast.aspxTue, 20 Jul 2010 07:08:45 GMTWith the increase of Stem Cell Tourism, there is also an increase in the media of patients and scientists telling their other side of the story.http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/StemCellTourismintheMedia.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/StemCellTourismintheMedia.aspxFri, 08 Jan 2010 00:46:56 GMTOn the 19 December 2008, Reprogramming Cells was named the Science Breakthrough of the Year.http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/SciencenamesReprogrammingCellsits2008BreakthroughoftheYear.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/SciencenamesReprogrammingCellsits2008BreakthroughoftheYear.aspxMon, 22 Dec 2008 13:00:00 GMTResearchers have today announced their ability to turn normal mouse fibroblast cells into functioning neural cells without needing to go through a stem cell stage first. The ASCC explains the science behind the discovery. http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/DirectReporgramming.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/DirectReporgramming.aspxThu, 28 Jan 2010 00:29:05 GMTOvernight the President of the United States overturned former President Bush’s restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell researchhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/Obamatoreverselimitsonstemcellresearch.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/Obamatoreverselimitsonstemcellresearch.aspxMon, 09 Mar 2009 13:00:00 GMTRecent news reports have focused on the case of a young Australian man with severe MS who appears to have made a substantial recovery from MS after receiving stem cell therapy in Australia. The ASCC explains the science behind these claims.http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/NewsinFocusTheScienceBehindtheHeadlines.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/NewsinFocusTheScienceBehindtheHeadlines.aspxFri, 08 Jan 2010 00:55:02 GMTThe previously reported sperm-creation article has been retracted due to alleged plagiarism. http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/Update.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/Update.aspxMon, 03 Aug 2009 00:25:56 GMTIt is that time of the year again, when grown men don brightly coloured lycra to sweat their way through the Tour de France...which is timely as there has been some interesting research lately about how exercise affects the stem cell in our brain.http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/StemCellsTourdeFrance.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/StemCellsTourdeFrance.aspxThu, 08 Jul 2010 03:10:53 GMTThe US Food and Drug Administration has put the first embryonic stem cell trial on hold. http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/Firstembryonicstemcelltrialputonhold.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/Firstembryonicstemcelltrialputonhold.aspxThu, 20 Aug 2009 01:55:43 GMTAustralian scientists have woken this morning to the rather dramatic news that an American judge has placed a temporary injunction on US federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research.http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/USStopsFundingofhESC.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/USStopsFundingofhESC.aspxMon, 23 Aug 2010 23:27:14 GMTIt has been a long and winding road for US stem cell scientists, but as of Wednesday 3 December 2009 they now have access to new approved human embryonic stem cell lines.http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/USApprovalhESC.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/USApprovalhESC.aspxThu, 03 Dec 2009 02:57:59 GMTYou can now keep up to date with the latest ASCC and stem cell developments on Twitter.http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/TheASCCisnowTwittering.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/TheASCCisnowTwittering.aspxFri, 04 Sep 2009 00:58:01 GMTIn America the FDA are seeking an injunction against Colorado Based company Regenerative Sciences LLC and their autologous stem cell application called Regenexx. http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/StemCellsTheRegulations.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/StemCellsTheRegulations.aspxTue, 24 Aug 2010 14:00:00 GMTThe Chinese Ministry of Health has released new regulations on medical technology – but it is unclear so far if this will cover companies which supply stem cells for treatment.http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/NewChineseStemCellTherapyRegulations.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/NewChineseStemCellTherapyRegulations.aspxThu, 21 May 2009 14:00:00 GMTThe ASCC today congratulates US based Australian scientist Dr Elizabeth Blackburn for winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/NobelPrizeWinner.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/NobelPrizeWinner.aspxTue, 06 Oct 2009 03:56:56 GMTAustralian scientists are growing increasingly concerned about the growing phenomenon of ‘stem cell tourism’, whereby patients are heading overseas for unproven experimental stem cell therapies. http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/ConcernsOverStemCellTourism.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/ConcernsOverStemCellTourism.aspxMon, 22 Dec 2008 13:00:00 GMTThis week it was widely reported from Stanford’s School of Medicine that researchers have turned fat cells from 'liposuction leftovers' into induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells (click here for more information on types of stem cells). http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/FatCellsFromLiposuctionMadeIntoiPSCells.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/FatCellsFromLiposuctionMadeIntoiPSCells.aspxWed, 09 Sep 2009 06:15:46 GMTIn what could be a significant step forward for human embryonic stem cell science the FDA have granted orphan drug status to a type of human embryonic stem cell to treat Stargardt’s Macular Dystrophy.http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/ACTorphandrugstatus.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/ACTorphandrugstatus.aspxThu, 04 Mar 2010 22:41:42 GMTThere has been a great deal of excitement and media regarding the new ‘sperm’ created from stem cells. Dr Megan Munsie discusses what it really means.http://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/SpermCreatedfromHumanEmbryonicStemCells.aspxhttp://www.stemcellcentre.edu.au/NewsEvents/Blogs/SpermCreatedfromHumanEmbryonicStemCells.aspxTue, 21 Jul 2009 08:06:37 GMT