I Peace, Inc. and Avery Therapeutics announce collaboration to bring iPSC derived cell therapy for heart failure to the clinic – PRNewswire

Avery Therapeutics is projected to be one of the first companies in the US to seek approval for a clinical trial using iPSC-derived technology for heart failure. The goal of this collaboration is to develop a new off-the-shelf treatment to improve the quality of life of patients suffering from heart failure, a debilitating disease that affects tens of millions of people worldwide.

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Creative Medical Technology Stock Price Increased 80.77%: Why It Happened – Pulse 2.0

The stock price of Creative Medical Technology Holdings Inc (OTCMKTS: CELZ) a company that engages in stem cell research and developing applications to treat male sexual dysfunction and related issues increased by 80.77% yesterday as it went from $0.0026 to $0.0047 per share. One of the biggest triggers for the stock price increase is an announcement about the company announcing the successful application of ImmCelz immunotherapy for treatment of stroke. In an animal model of ischemia stroke, the middle cerebral artery ligation model, administration of ImmCelz resulted in 34% reduction in infarct volume, whereas control bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells reduced infarct volume by 21%.

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California’s Proposition 14: short in the arm for stem cell research – BioNews

14 December 2020 The recent close-call US presidentialelection grabbed headlines, but no less closely-fought was California's Proposition 14, also on the ballot in October, which will have a huge impact on the future of stem cell research in the state. The Stem Cell Research Institute Bond Initiative (Prop 14),whichwas on theballotinthe initiated state statutewill allow the state to issue billions of dollars in bonds for its stem cellresearch programme

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COVID-19 vaccine shows the long-term value of curiosity-driven basic research – News-Medical.Net

The most promising vaccine against the coronavirus to date is also an example of the long-term value of curiosity-driven basic research and its funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). The so-called mRNA vaccine platform, which the Mainz-based company BioNTech uses in its Covid-19 vaccine developed jointly with the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer, can be traced back to preliminary work carried out from 2006 to 2008 in a project within a DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) on cancer research at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

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