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Geron Corporation's Stem Cell Trial

Geron Corporation is a company based in Menlo Park, CA and the first biotech company in the USA to be granted permission for a clinical trial of regenerative medicine using embryonic stem cells, in humans. While permission was granted in January 2009, the trials were put on hold until last Frida...

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About.co...omedical — November 03

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Is a Bio-Based Economy a Fantasy?

Among those who work in biotechnology, there are three main areas of study: Biomedical, industrial, and environmental biotechnology. In just 15 years since PCR and gene cloning became a part of mainstream biotech research, industrial applications for the products of enzyme technology and GMOs hav...

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About.co...omedical — October 28

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Synthetic Biology and Artificial Systems

Synthetic biology has been defined as the creation of artificial life forms, but, in reality, is more often exemplified in the creation of synthetic (man-made) building blocks of lifeforms, such as ribosomes, tissues and proteins and their ligands, that can be added together to create, or enhance...

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About.co...omedical — October 26

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Using Systems Biology to Study Influenza

Systems biology is the study of how individual molecular components in a cell interact with each other to create active biological systems. This "grand scale" study of things generates information on the relationships between the structure and function of macromolecules (such as protein...

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About.co...omedical — October 22

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Canada Approves H1N1 Vaccine

Canadians can begin getting their H1N1 flu vaccines next week, now that the Health Minister has announced the vaccine is approved. There haven't been a lot of clinical trial participants in Canada, but the approval is based on European data. China began widespread vaccinations in late September, ...

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About.co...omedical — October 22

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Nano-Scale Mechanical Forces Impact Stem Cell Growth

Scientists at the University of Illinois are applying nanotechnology and stem cell research to study the impact of mechanical forces on stem cell differentiation. The group, lead by Dr. Ning Wang, used cells, to which a 4 micron diameter magnetic bead had been attached, to compare the softness of...

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About.co...omedical — October 19