Registries and banks - p111
The European Registry for Human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESCreg) adds an important global resource to the fragmented landscape of stem cell research.
doi:10.1038/ncb0208-111
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Stick to the guidelines and fewer get hurt
Monya Baker
The ISSCR hopes its handbook will prompt regulators and governments to shut shady clinics
Published online: 11 December 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2008.157
Offshore stem cell treatments
Sorapop Kiatpongsan & Douglas Sipp
Costs, risks, benefits, and a call for regulation
Published online: 03 December 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2008.151
Persistence pays off
Bryn Nelson
Stem cell researchers say that favourable policy in the United Kingdom is the result of taking the time to win over legislators
Published online: 02 October 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2008.128
Australian clinic gets permit to clone stem cells - p441
Published online: 24 September 2008; doi:10.1038/455441d
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When the past catches up with the present
Monya Baker
Worries that the NIH did not properly evaluate informed consent by donors of embryos from which stem cell lines were derived throw oversight committees into disarray
Published online: 14 August 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2008.116
Consent issues restrict stem-cell use
Monya Baker
Some human embryonic cell lines may not be eligible for research.
Published online: 28 July 2008; doi:10.1038/454556a
US stem cell scientists consider relocating
Monya Baker
Survey shows state policies and resources influence decisions
Published online: 10 July 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2008.103
Brazilian court decision eases scientists' stem cell worries - p699
Rodrigo Squizato
doi:10.1038/nm0708-699b
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Stem cell society condemns unproven treatments
Monya Baker
The International Society for Stem Cell Research is preparing guidelines for ethical behavior for stem cell practitioners
Published online: 26 June 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2008.98
Stem-cell urological treatment was not carried out illegally - p1177
Hannes Strasser
Published online: 25 June 2008; doi:10.1038/4531177c
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Stem-cell research: more support brings more papers
Monya Baker
Publication rates in human embryonic stem cell research reflect government policies
Published online: 12 June 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2008.91
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Legislator proposes ethical oversight role for NIH
Monya Baker
New stem-cell policy could lift federal funding ban, increase regulation on privately funded researchers
Published online: 22 May 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2008.82
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Open-air demo supports UK embryo research
Michael Hopkin
Rally aims to secure political backing for new embryology law.
Published online: 12 May 2008; doi:10.1038/news.2008.819
Thickets and gaps blocking stem cell science
Monya Baker
Cross-institutional collaborations could advance stem cell science
Published online: 06 March 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2008.42
The European Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry — a personal view from Germany
Joeri Borstlap
Why does a country that has criminalized work on some embryonic stem cell lines participate in the coordination of such a registry?
Published online: 06 March 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2008.46
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iPS cells and the politics of promise - pp271 - 272
Herbert Gottweis & Stephen Minger
doi:10.1038/nbt0308-271
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Stem cells: Stuck in new jersey
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/451622a
Law should recognize value of interspecies embryos - p627
Justin C. St John, Lyle Armstrong, Stephen L. Minger & Keith H. S. Campbell
Published online: 06 February 2008; doi:10.1038/451627a
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A step towards three-parent babies?
Erika Check Hayden
doi:10.1038/news.2008.560
Gulf states embrace stem cell technologies at home and abroad
Nadia El-Awady
Seventy years ago, the desert sands of Arabia revealed vast oil reserves. That wealth is now being put to work to fund potential new sources of revenue
Published online: 17 January 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2008.21
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A conversation with Story Landis, head of the NIH Stem Cell Task Force
Monya Baker
In late November, two teams of scientists announced that differentiated human cells can be genetically engineered into a state, induced pluripotency, mirroring that of embryonic stem cells. Nature Reports Stem Cells spoke with Dr. Story Landis, head of the Stem Cell Task Force at the United States National Institutes of Health to learn what's next.
Published online: 03 January 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2007.149
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Stem cells: a national project
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/451229a
What stem cell therapy can learn from gene therapy
Christopher Scott
Some bioethicists see history repeating itself
Published online: 04 September 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2008.123
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Final decision expected on European stem-cell patent - p15
Published online: 02 July 2008; doi:10.1038/454015a
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HLA-haplotype banking and iPS cells - pp739 - 740
Norio Nakatsuji, Fumiaki Nakajima & Katsushi Tokunaga
doi:10.1038/nbt0708-739
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Banking on the future of stem cells
Monya Baker
doi:10.1038/452263a
Q & A: Anna Veiga - p234
Doug Sipp
Despite the restrictions and controversy confronting stem cell research, labs around the world continue to derive new human embryonic stem cell lines and make them available to the global research community. The EU-funded Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry (hESCreg) seeks to bring order to the growing number of available stem cell lines and the flood of related data, beginning with the cell lines created in European labs. The web-based registry, launched in January 2008 and accessible at http://www.hescreg.eu, aims to serve as a one-stop source of information about the origins and traits of these cell lines. Anna Veiga, the hESCreg scientific coordinator and director of the stem cell bank at the Centre of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona, talks with Doug Sipp about how the project was conceived and where it might lead.
doi:10.1038/nm0308-234
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FDA scrutinizes human stem cell therapies - pp598 - 599
Jeffrey L Fox
doi:10.1038/nbt0608-598
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