Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Biotech / Medical : STEM -- StemCells, Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: WWS who wrote (212)	2/25/1999 4:16:00 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 805

Although techniques for practical clinical harvesting and expansion are well developed for human hematopoeitic stem cells, I'm not sure how much comparable progress has been made for human neural stem cells. I was too sleepy earlier today to repost the PR from ctii from back in December...so here it is for newbies. I know this does not answer all your questions Bill, and we probably already went around with this issue in the previous hundred posts, but I'll leave this here for anybody new to the thread. CTII neural stem cell patent... No. 5,851,832, covering methods for expanding human neural stem cell cultures, for compositions of human neural stem cell cultures expanded by these methods, and for use of these cultures in human transplantation and remyelination. (snip) In preclinical studies, the Company's scientists and collaborators have already demonstrated the ability to: characterize, proliferate and differentiate human neural stem/progenitor cell cultures in vitro; engraft human neural stem/progenitor cells into the brains of rodents where the cells differentiate into the neuronal lineages characteristic of the site into which they are transplanted; engraft human neural stem/progenitor cells into the spinal cords of myelin- deficient rodents in a model of multiple sclerosis where the cells differentiate into myelinating oligodendrocytes; and genetically modify multipotent adult rodent hippocampal neural stem/progenitor cells to differentiate into neurons and glia. (snip) biz.yahoo.com