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

To: Mike McFarland who wrote (250)	5/24/1999 10:24:00 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 805

I asked earlier just how these implants are anchored...I was wondering if maybe they can be looped around a structure without breaking? Migration then breakage was apparently a problem, then they came up with some sort of a 'tether clip' to keep the implants in place. But maybe this is not the biggest question with which to be concerned--what exactly are the new FDA rules for xenotransplantation? To a casual observer like myself, it sure seems a little bizzare that there would be restrictions placed on the use of bovine cells. I introduce great piles of bovine muscle cells into my gut all the time, heheh. Well, shows you that I don't have much appreciation for the safety issues of xeno implants, would not have guessed there were problems. If anybody has bookmarked a link to information on this at the FDA, I'd be curious. I suppose all of these worries are reflected in the low price of CTI stock. I looked through the report again this morning, and it sure does seem like these fellas have an awful lot going on at once, probably hard to manage it all with just 90-something employees, but with several different programs, a pleasant surprise could come from just about any direction: The pain implants, implants for other purposes (a gene therapy partner perhaps?) as well as encapuslated cells for bypassing the blood-retinal barrier and the blood-brain barrier (CNTF for ALS and Huntington's). Also the stem cells--discover pancreatic stem cells for type I or use neural stem cells for reparing or repopulating for CNS diseases. A lot going on, and good connections; Weissman/Stanford, Gage/Salk Institute, Anderson/ Calif. Institute of Technology, Sarvetnick/Scripps. That fellow on Yahoo said it pretty well: "How such smart people could mismanage such powerful technology is baffling, isn't it." Heheh, I'm sure they had some help from the lawyers--I always skip the last few pages of the reports, the cautionary stuff from the attorneys, science is complicated, all the business oriented details are pretty complex too.