Backers of Maryland’s stem cell ecosystem hope a federal judge’s ruling last week in a Florida case that the Food and Drug Administration can regulate stem cell treatments is the first step toward protecting their legitimacy. The case in Florida ...

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Neuralstem Inc., of Germantown, a biotechnology company, announced that the first patient was treated last week in the Phase I trial testing its NSI-566 human neural stem cells for chronic spinal cord injury. The trial occurred at the UC San ...

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A federal jury in Delaware has awarded more than $1 million to a photographer whose copyrighted photograph of stem cells was widely distributed without his consent for seven years on the website of a company that produces nutritional supplements aimed at increasing stem-cell count.

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Avram Israel Reisner, a bioethicist who leads a Conservative Jewish congregation in Baltimore, has been elected chairman of the Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission.

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The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission announced that 31 new proposals have been selected for grants through the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund for FY 2013.

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LOS ANGELES — Researchers are reporting a key advance in using stem cells to repair hearts damaged by heart attacks. In a study, stem cells donated by strangers proved as safe and effective as patients’ own cells for helping restore ...

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A local biotechnology company has gained the world’s first regulatory approval for a stem cell-based drug. Columbia-based Osiris Therapeutics Inc. received approval last week in Canada for the use of its Prochymal drug to treat children with the potentially deadly ...

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Neuralstem Inc. of Rockville, which is developing products to treat central nervous system disorders with patented stem cell technology, said it received a U.S. Department of Defense contract to develop its human neural stem cell technology for the treatment of ...

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WASHINGTON— A lawsuit that had threatened to end the Obama administration’s funding of embryonic stem cell research was thrown out Wednesday, allowing the U.S. to continue supporting a search for cures to deadly diseases over protests that the work relies ...

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The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission has recommended funding 36 new projects with the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund’s $10.4 million budget. After the commission reviewed 180 applications, the board of directors of the Maryland Technology Development Corp. approved the ...

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