The adult stem cell company Aldagen Inc, from Durham North Carolina announced today that it has filed a registration with the Securities Exchange Commission for an initial public offering with a potential value of $80.5 million.
Embryonic stem cells have attracted tremendous attention based on their ability to become any of the 220 types of cell in the human body.
In a recent publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Columbia University described the creation of a jaw bone (temporomandibular joint) made in the laboratory.
Since those early studies which began in Phoenix Arizona in 2000, thousands of patients have been treated with their own stem cells for heart failure.
In a study that appeared today in the Journal Cell Stem Cell, Dr Kevin Eggan’s group from Harvard reported a novel way of generating stem cells from adult cells.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced today that they have succeeded in generating retinal cells from stem cells.
