Woman given windpipe created in laboratory
November 19, 2008, CNN News LONDON, England (CNN) -- Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue engineered from her own stem cells in what experts have hailed as a "milestone in medicine." See article

Pfizer to open stem cell unit in Cambridge
Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drugmaker, said today it has launched a new biotechnology research unit focused on developing stem cell-based treatments for a wide range of conditions. See article

Genzyme, Osiris enter stem cell treatment deal
CNBC, Associated Press - November 4, 2008 - CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Osiris Therapeutics could potentially receive up to $1.25 billion under a stem cell treatment development and sales deal with Genzyme Corp., the companies said Tuesday. See article

UM doctors trying to heal human hearts with stem cells
Miami Herald, 10.25.08 - In a U.S. first, University of Miami doctors have injected potentially healing adult stem cells into a patient's heart via catheter, rather than by open-heart surgery. See article

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - UM goal: Use stem cells to fix heart
Miami Herald, April 16, 2008 In a pioneering procedure, UM doctors are testing whether adult stem cells taken from a patient's bone marrow and injected into the heart can help rebuild it. See article

Valuable blood discarded
Akron Beacon Journal, April 6, 2008 Blood cells taken from newborns' umbilical cords have been proven to cure leukemia and lymphoma. And they may eventually treat a whole host of other diseases, including diabetes, heart disease, cerebral palsy and blood disorders like sickle cell anemia. Yet in 99 out of every 100 births, the umbilical cord is thrown away, treated as medical waste, like a used syringe or surgical sponge. See article

Medicine's Cutting Edge: Re-Growing Organs
CBS Morning News, March 23, 2008 Imagine re-growing a severed fingertip, or creating an organ in the lab that can be transplanted into a patient without risk of rejection. It sounds like science fiction, but it's not. It's the burgeoning field of regenerative medicine, in which scientists are learning to harness the body's own power to regenerate itself, with astonishing results. See article

Market for adult stem cells multiplies
Chicago Tribune, March 16, 2008 Progress in bringing adult stem cells to market outstrips the use of embryonic stem cells for several reasons, including that the regulatory hurdles are lower. But the controversy surrounding the process of harvesting cells from days-old embryos created in laboratories has clearly been a factor. While a small number of the companies appearing at the Stem Cell Summit are working on embryonic research, others go out of their way to point out they work only with adult stem cells. See article

Forbes says county number three in US
Boca Raton News, FL, March 16, 2008 A smaller biotech firm called AssureImmune has also set up shop in Boca Raton, Smallridge said. That firm is in the vanguard of those doing stem cell ... See article

Amazing recovery attributed to cord blood
NBC Today Show, March 11, 2008 NBC’s Michael Okwu reports on one little boy who’s made a dramatic recovery from his diagnosis of cerebral palsy thanks to some cutting-edge treatment. See article

Adult Stem Cells May Treat Many Diseases
WebMD, USA, Feb. 26, 2008 Adult stem cells harvested from either blood or bone marrow hold promise for the treatment of a wide range of autoimmune diseases and heart ... See article

Scientists use stem cells in bone transplant
HELSINKI (Reuters), Feb. 1, 2008 Finnish scientists were able to replace a patient's upper jaw after performing a bone transplant made from the patient's own mesenchymal stem cells -- a breakthrough that could lead to the treatment of severe tissue damage and creation of human body parts. Researchers conducted the transplant after isolating the cells from a patient's fat and allowing them to grow inside the abdomen for nine months. See article