November 15, 2011
Stem cells are viewed on a computer screen in August 2010 in Farmington, Connecticut. The first-ever trial using human embryonic stem cells to treat paralysis has been halted due to high costs and the company, Geron, said it will focus instead on new cancer treatments. The California-based biotech firm said it was also cutting 66 [...]
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November 2, 2011
Nguyen Viet Anh with blisters on the skin before the treatment (L) and after 40 days of getting a bone marrow stem cell transplant (R). Vietnam has seen its first successful bone marrow stem cell transplant to cure lethal skin blisters, saving the life of a four- year-old boy, a Hanoi doctor said. Nguyen [...]
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July 9, 2009
After Mekostem, a second stem-cell bank named Mamprotech Vietnam is scheduled to open in late 2009 in HCM City. Stem-cell research at a laboratory. Invested in by Mamprotech Vietnam, a private company, the stem-cell bank is located in the HCM City Hi-tech Park. The project’s manager Nguyen Quang Duc told VietNamNet that investment capital in equipment for [...]
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June 22, 2009
Nguyen Van Toan, one of many young leukemia patients struggling for life at the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion in Hanoi Young leukemia patients cling to hope and life however critical their condition is. Nguyen Tien Thang has come within inches of death several times during his leukemia treatment at the National Institute [...]
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April 13, 2009
Dr. Phan Toan Thang, a leading expert in stem cells at the Singapore National University and a representative of Singapore-based CellResearch Corporation, spoke with VietNamNet about stem-cell research in Vietnam. Dr. Phan Toan Thang and an American student. What do you think about stem-cell research in Vietnam in the last three years? Stem-cell research has become a [...]
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March 15, 2009
At Mekostem stem cell bank.LookAtVietnam – Stem cells are providing people with a greater chance to have their diseases treated and now the establishment of a stem cell bank in HCM City has narrowed the odds.But the service is only available to the rich and there are doubts in at least one mind that Viet [...]
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March 10, 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday issued an executive order that allows federal money to fund expanded embryonic stem cell research, which scientists say is “a great advance for science in general and America in particular.” U.S. President Barack Obama signs an Executive Order on stem cells research in the East Room of the White [...]
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February 16, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Mekostem, Vietnam’s first stem cell bank, opened in Ho Chi Minh City on Feb. 15, offering services of cell collection, analysis and separation, and preservation of stem cells obtained from umbilical cord blood and umbilical membrane. LookAtVietnam – Mekostem, Vietnam’s first stem cell bank, opened in Ho Chi Minh City on Feb. 15, [...]
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February 4, 2009
Lookatvietnam – The head of the National Institute of Burns in Hanoi said his hospital has been successful in using stem cells to treat wounds that do not otherwise heal because patients are diabetic or have had radiation therapy or cardiac surgery. Lookatvietnam – The head of the National Institute of Burns in Hanoi, Dr. [...]
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