UCSD Stem Cell Initiative

Novocell Looks to Stem Cells for Diabetes Cure
Voice of San Diego, July 21 -- Ed Baetge and the team of scientists he has led for seven years have had setbacks and disappointing days, but the prospect of finding the cure for Type I diabetes makes their research too tantalizing to give up. Especially now that Baetge believes that they’re on the brink of a medical breakthrough that could stave off the disease in humans. (Quotes Dr. Steven Chessler, a biomedical researcher at UCSD)
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2008/07/21/news/02novocell072108.txt

Researchers Hope Four Genes
and Some Chemicals Ease Stem Cell Controversy
Voice of San Diego, July 16 -- If artificial human embryonic stem cells prove as valuable as real ones, research into therapies for incurable diseases that has lagged because of short supplies of stem cells and the storm of controversy that surrounds them could be reinvigorated. (Quotes Mike Kalichman, the director of the Research Ethics Program at UCSD)
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2008/07/17/economics/893artificial071608.txt

S.D. Stem Cell Efforts Awarded $5 Million Total
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 28 -- San Diego scientists were awarded $5 million in grants yesterday from a pool of $24 million approved by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. UCSD’s Steven Dowdy, a professor of cellular and molecular medicine, will get $1.388 million over three years to create stem cell lines using human skin.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20080628-9999-1b28stems.html

Repairing Damage to Brain May Be Nearer
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 25 – A team of San Diego scientists has moved embryonic stem cell research a step closer to helping repair the brains of stroke victims and people with diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Researchers from the Salk Institute and UCSD also contributed to the project, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/20080625-9999-1m25stem.html

Stem Cell Research a Hot Topic at Biotech Conference in S.D.
KPBS, June 19 -- California has the nation's largest state-supported stem cell research program. San Diego is trying to play a big part in that effort. UCSD and three local research institutes have formed the San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine. The state recently awarded the group $43-million to build a new facility. )Larry Goldstein directs UCSD's stem cell program)
http://www.kpbs.org/news/local;id=12030

$271 Million for Research on Stem Cells in California
The New York Times, May 8 -- California has awarded $271 million in grants to build 12 stem cell research centers in the state, even as one of the political rationales for the building program might soon disappear. (Mentions UCSD)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/us/08stem.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

Stem Cell Group Gets its First Building Block
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 8 -- The San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, which includes UCSD, yesterday received a $43 million grant from the state stem cell institute to help build a research center in Torrey Pines where the region's scientists will attempt to unlock the mysteries of stem cells and treat disease.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/20080508-9999-1n8stems.html

Keep Hopes Aloft
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, April 22 – Since the late Jonas Salk's establishment of an internationally renowned institute on Torrey Pines Mesa in 1963, San Diego has been in the vanguard of global medical research. But the emerging plan by four of San Diego's premier research centers, including UCSD, to collaborate on a single institution centered on stem cell studies holds the promise of medical advances on a much wider scale.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080422/news_lz1ed22top.html

Stem Cell Lab Planned for San Diego
TIME, April 21 -- A new nonprofit institution plans to build a $115 million stem cell research facility in San Diego that would open by 2010. The facility would be located on more than 7 acres owned by UCSD in the Torrey Pines area biotechnology cluster. The university is one of four members of the consortium.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1732571,00.html

Treatment Reverses Blood Disorder in Mice, Study Finds
Reuters, April 7 – An experimental treatment in mice showed promise in reversing a rare blood disease that can cause leukemia, U.S. researchers said on Monday, offering a glimpse of how the drug may work as it begins testing in humans. In experiments at Harvard Medical School in Boston and at UCSD, researchers found the compound blocked a genetic mutation that causes three kinds of leukemias.
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN0730236320080407

Scripps Starts Center Focused on Stem Cells
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 4 – Scripps Research Institute, renowned for its work in drug development and medicinal chemistry, is making a bigger commitment to stem cell research. (Mentions UCSD)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/20080326-9999-1b26stems.html

Local Stem Cell Group Raises $65M to Attract Grants
North County Times, March 4 – San Diego County's stem cell consortium has secured $65 million to help build a major research center at UCSD.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/03/04/business/news/8_05_103_3_08.txt

Donations Add Muscle to Bid for Stem Cell Institute Funds
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 29 – More than $495 million in private donations has been pledged to research institutes and universities around California to supplement grants they are seeking from the state stem cell institute. The San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, comprising UCSD, the Scripps Research Institute, the Salk Institute and the Burnham Institute, is seeking a $50 million grant from the stem cell institute to construct a new building on UCSD property.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/20080229-9999-1b29stems.html

UCI in Running for Stem-Cell Money
Orange County Business Journal, Jan. 21 -- The University of California, Irvine placed third among 12 institutions in the running to receive part of $25 million to $50 million in grants offered by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. (Mentions UCSD)
http://www.ocbj.com/industry_article.asp?aID=46396229.4168057.
1577914.9350499.84398302.291&aID2=121369

Gene Tests for Psychiatric Risk Polarize Researchers
Science, Jan. 18 -- Starting a biotechnology company was not part of John Kelsoe's life plan. A respected psychiatric geneticist here at UCSD, he has spent 20 years patiently searching for the genes behind bipolar disorder. Kelsoe has now laid this solid reputation on the line: He has founded a company that last year quietly began selling the first gene test to help diagnose people with bipolar disorder, which affects about 1% of the population.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/319/5861/274

Local Stem Cell Research Group Advances in Quest for Grant
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 18 -- San Diego has moved a step closer to snagging $50 million in state funding for the construction of a center for human embryonic stem cell research that would house joint projects by the region's top four research institutes. San Diego's request was submitted by the San Diego Stem Cell Consortium, a partnership of UCSD, the Burnham Institute, the Salk Institute and the Scripps Research Institute, all in La Jolla.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/20080118-9999-1n18stems.html

Successful Embryo Cloning Documented
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 17 -- A team at the tiny San Diego biotechnology company Stemagen has become the first to document its successful cloning of human embryos by fusing donated egg cells with the DNA from skin cells of an adult man, according to an article that will be published online today by the journal Stem Cells. (Quotes Larry Goldstein, director of UCSD's stem cells program ).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/20080117-9999-1n17embryo.html

As Human Cloning Advances, Ethics Debate Gets Louder
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 17 -- The possible has become the probable. A human embryo has been cloned by using a woman's egg cells and a man's skin cells. Biology and morality have crossed paths again. And so has a question for the ages: Just because you can do it, does it make it right? (Quotes Michael Kalichman, director of UCSD's research ethics program).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/20080117-9999-1n17ethics.html

International Stem Cell Corp. Joins Eye Surgery Trial
North County Times, Jan. 14 -- Shares of International Stem Cell Corp. rose nearly 19 percent Monday after the company said it will supply corneal cells for human trials in an effort to improve vision correction surgery. Dr. Paul H. Chen is conducting the trial with the UCSD Shiley Eye Center, the Burnham Institute in La Jolla, the University of Michigan and other centers.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/01/15/business/news/7_10_411_14_08.txt

Stem Cell Company Stock Surges after Discovery
North County Times, Dec. 20 -- A report of a major advance in stem cell research propelled shares of International Stem Cell Corp. to a 71 percent gain Wednesday. Stock in the Oceanside-based company rose 41 cents per share, or 68 percent, closing at $1.01 apiece. (Quotes Larry Goldstein, head of the stem cell research program at UCSD)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/12/20/business/news/7_50_2912_18_07.txt

5 Local Scientists Get Slice of Stem Cell Research Pie
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 13 -- The state stem cell institute yesterday awarded a total of $13.2 million in grants to five San Diego scientists to help fund five years of research. The scientists – one from UCSD, two from the Salk Institute and two from Scripps Research Institute – were among 22 medical and doctoral researchers around the state to receive part of $54 million in funding.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20071213-9999-1n13stems.html

Neuralstem Wants OK to Test Stem Cells in Humans
Washington Business Journal, Dec. 11 -- By early next year, a six-person biotech tucked inside a Rockville incubator will file for approval to be the world's first company to clinically test in humans whether a shot of fetal stem cells can replace destroyed nerve cells and return mobility to some paraplegics. (Mentions UCSD).
http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/
2007/12/10/story8.html?i=104809&b=1197262800%5E1560324

Stem Cell Institute Criticized on Ethics
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 28 -- The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine announced yesterday that it would not consider 10 of the 59 grant applications it received from researchers hoping to participate in the latest round of state stem cell funding because of potential conflicts of interest with its board members. (Quotes UCSD spokeswoman Stacie Spector)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/20071208-9999-1b8stems.html

Local Stem Cell Researchers Excited by Discovery
North County Times, Nov. 21 -- San Diego's large stem cell research community has been fixated on Tuesday's startling announcements that human embryonic stem cells have apparently been grown from skin cells. (Quotes Larry Goldstein, head of UCSD’s stem cell research program)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/11/22/business/news/6_02_0211_21_07.txt

Monkey Embryos Cloned for Stem Cells, Scientists Say
Los Angeles Times, Nov. 15 -- After years of false starts and an international scientific scandal, researchers said Wednesday that they had achieved a feat that some scientists believed was impossible -- cloning a monkey embryo from a skin cell of an adult and using it to harvest embryonic stem cells. (Quotes Larry Goldstein, director of UCSD’s stem cell research program)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-sci-clone15nov15,1,2630877,full.story?
coll=la-headlines-technology

Stem Cell Program Offers $250M in Bonds
North County Times, Oct. 4 -- California's stem cell program offered $250 million in state bonds Wednesday, the first to be sold under the state's $3 billion stem cell research effort. The committee governing the program also encouraged biotech companies to take part and approved the first steps toward building major research centers. (Mentions UCSD)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/10/04/business/news/7_25_3910_3_07.txt

State Stem Cell Institute Names Pioneer as Leader
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 15 -- California's stem cell institute, having just overcome a legal challenge that stymied its funding for two years, has landed a marquee-name scientist to serve as its president and try to cement the state's reputation as the global epicenter for stem cell research. (Quotes Larry Goldstein, an embryonic stem cell researcher at UCSD)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/20070915-9999-1n15stem.html

British Regulators May Allow Creation of Hybrid Embryos
Contra Costa Times, Sept. 6 -- Capping a months-long scientific and ethics review, British regulators said Wednesday that they were prepared to allow the creation of embryos that are part human and part animal for use in medical experiments. (Quotes Lawrence Goldstein, director of the stem cell program at UCSD)
http://www.contracostatimes.com/nationandworld/ci_6815740

Stem Cell Board Adds Salk COO
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 5-- Marsha Chandler, chief operating officer of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, has been appointed to the oversight board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. She fills the board vacancy created when Richard Murphy, former president of the Salk, retired July 1. Before joining Salk, Chandler was senior vice chancellor of academic affairs of UCSD.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20070905-9999-1b5bizbrfs.html

Local Firm Details Stem Cell Advance
North County Times, Aug.19 -- A local biotechnology start-up says it has crossed a major hurdle in embryonic stem cells research by growing the cells directly from unfertilized human eggs. (Quotes Larry Goldstein, director of UCSD's stem cell research program)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/08/20/business/news/17_48_238_18_07.txt

Baxter, Mytogen Test Stem Cells to Repair Hearts
Bloomberg, July 12 -- A Baxter International Inc. study, to be completed in 2009, is testing if stem cells taken from his bone marrow can strengthen his heart. (Mentions research by Nabil Dib, director of clinical cardiovascular cell therapy at UCSD)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aYgbTNsmZuWw&refer=home1

California: the State of Stem Cell Funding
ABC News, June 22 -- As President Bush vetoed a bill that would have loosened restrictions on embryonic stem cell research Wednesday afternoon, many who see stem cell therapies as solutions to ailments ranging from diabetes to paralysis to cancer are looking for another means of funding for what they regard as a critical area of inquiry. (Quotes Karl Willert, director of UCSD’s Stem Cell Core Facility)
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=3302043&page=1

S.D. Scientists Make Pitch for Stem Cell Funds
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 20 – Scientists from four top research institutions, including UCSD – with expertise in stem cell biology, chemistry, engineering and ethics – could one day work together in a 135,000-square-foot building that would be the hub for stem cell research in San Diego.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070620/news_1b20stems.html

Grants to Fund Stem Cell Labs
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 6 -- The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine's governing body voted to distribute 17 grants statewide, including one for UCSD, to create shared facilities that can be used to grow and study new human embryonic stem cell lines. Some grants will also support courses on the difficult techniques of deriving the cells from days-old embryos and coaxing them to grow in a petri dish.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/20070606-9999-1b6stems.html

UC Class Learns to Keep Stem Cells in Line
North County Times, April 14 -- The half-dozen people in the class are learning basic techniques for growing and sorting human stem cells. Soon, they'll move on to projects of their own at UCSD and research institutes nearby.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/04/15/science/13_38_484_13_07.txt

Experts Discuss Stem Cell Research in La Jolla
North County Times, April 7 -- Embryonic stem cell science is picking up steam, making moral questions about how to do the research and who gets the benefits an urgent matter. That's the message speakers delivered Friday at a conference in La Jolla on the ethics of stem cell research. (Quotes Lawrence S. Goldstein, director of the stem cell program at UCSD)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/04/07/news/top_stories/1_02_154_6_07.txt

Stem Cell Researchers on Ethics and Science
KPBS, April 5 -- Stem cells provide some of the greatest hope for curing some of the most devastating diseases. But the promise of stem cells comes with a couple of reservations. First, dramatic cures for diseases like Alzheimer’s and Lou Gehrig's disease are still a long way off. Also, the most promising kind of stem cells -- embryonic cells -- are subject to a tremendous amount of ethical controversy.
http://www.kpbs.org/radio/these_days?id=7917

Hope in Stem Cells Lures Family Abroad
The Press-Enterprise, April 2 -- Scientists say that 10 years from now the outlook for patients suffering from spinal cord injuries, brain damage or debilitating diseases such as Parkinson's could be very different. Stem cell research might yield miraculous cures. But 10 years is too long for one Menifee mother. (Quotes Prof. Lawrence Goldstein, director of UCSD’s Stem Cell Program)
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/

Grants will help stem cell researchers
combine efforts with scientists in other fields
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 1 -- One is a pioneer in bioengineering. Others include a leukemia specialist and a doctor who runs an in-vitro fertilization clinic. Those three are among the 19 San Diego scientists who will dive into human embryonic stem cell research thanks to the first round of grants issued under California's $3 billion stem cell initiative.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20070401-9999-lz1b1somers.html

Stem Cell Treatment Could Save Patients with Heart Failure
ABC News, March 26 -- Scientists have announced that they have been able to use stem cells to treat patients with heart failure, some of the first evidence that the much-hyped therapy could have significant clinical benefits. The study's leader, Nabil Dib, who will soon lead clinical cardiovascular cell therapy at UCSD, said one of the most notable aspects of the treatment was how minimally invasive it was — patients don't even require anesthesia. Dib’s contract with UCSD has yet to be finalized.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2980927&page=1

Anti-Aging Institute Selling Extraction, Storage of Stem Cells
San Diego Business Journal, March 17 -- A local anti-aging institute has become the first to offer extraction and storage of adult stem cells for future medical uses in the region — and likely one of the first in the country. Some say the future promise of these cells is worth the cost of extracting and storing one’s cells. But others have their doubts. Director of the Stem Cell Research Program at UCSD, Dr. Larry Goldstein said it’s too early to say if adult stem cells could be beneficial beyond blood cancers, and a “short list” of other uses.
http://www.sdbj.com/

Banking for the Future
NBC San Diego, March 1 -- San Diego is the first city in the nation to participate in a new and controversial procedure -- investing their own adult stem cells for future use, according to NBC 7/39. Dr. Ron Rothenberg is the first of five donors in the U.S. to bank his own stem cells. (Quotes Dr. Larry Goldstein, director of UCSD's stem cell research program)
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/peggypico/11139899/detail.html

Board to Hand out Stem Cell Research Grants
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Feb. 16 -- The board of California's Institute for Regenerative Medicine today is expected to award the first round of research grants funded by the state's groundbreaking $3 billion stem cell initiative. People around the world will be watching. (Quotes UCSD stem cell researcher Larry Goldstein)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070216/news_1b16stems.html

Guidelines on Stem Cell Research Offered
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 1 -- An international organization of stem cell scientists released guidelines yesterday that aim to dictate rigorous ethical standards for research on human embryonic stem cells. (Quotes Larry Goldstein, an embryonic stem cell researcher at UCSD)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/

A Man on a Mission: Questions for Larry Goldstein
Voice of San Diego, Jan. 27 -- In mid-2004, Larry Goldstein was in Montecito, a small community just south of Santa Barbara known for its wealth and for the celebrities that call it home. Goldstein wasn't looking for star-sightings or the glorious coastal views: He was there to raise money for Proposition 71, an unprecedented $3 billion state bond measure to fund embryonic stem cell research that he helped write.
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2007/01/27/news/

Stem Cell Scientists Shout Out Hallelujah
San Diego Union Tribune, Jan. 23 -- Scientists expect access to human embryonic stem cells for research to improve thanks to new policies announced yesterday by a University of Wisconsin agency that controls the patents on the cells. (Quotes Larry Goldstein, a UCSD stem cell researcher)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/

A Stroke for Stem Cells
Scientific American, Jan. 14 -- The first stem cell therapy targeting a major brain disorder, chronic stroke, could begin clinical trials this year if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the request filed in December by stem cell firm ReNeuron in Guildford, England. (Quotes neurologist Justin Zivin of UCSD)
http://www.sciam.com/

4 Institutes Band Together on Stem Cells
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 9 -- The San Diego Stem Cell Consortium was formed last year, when UCSD and the Burnham, Salk and Scripps research institutes entered a pact to share grant money they might receive from California's stem cell institute. Ultimately, the consortium hopes to obtain a large facilities grant from the state to build a joint research facility on UCSD land along North Torrey Pines Road, near the Salk Institute.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/

Stem Cells in Amniotic Fluid Show Promise
Los Angeles Times, Jan. 8 -- Researchers have found that some stem cells in human amniotic fluid appear to have many of the key therapeutic benefits of embryonic stem cells while avoiding their knottiest ethical, medical and logistical drawbacks, according to a study published Sunday. (Quotes Larry Goldstein, a professor of cellular and molecular medicine at UCSD who studies embryonic stem cells)
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-sci-stemcells8jan08,1,6427115.story

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Worlds Apart
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 17 -- While President Bush remains steadfastly against human embryonic stem cell research, limiting federal funding on moral grounds, nations around the globe are pouring millions of dollars into the field. (Quotes Larry Goldstein, director of UCSD’s stem cell research program)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/

Embryos Spared in Stem Cell Creation
USA Today, Aug. 24 -- Researchers have found a way to create human stem cells from a single cell — without harming embryos. But this discovery may not eliminate the concerns of those who have opposed stem cell research. The alternative approach, reported in the journal Nature, relies on a fertility clinic method of diagnosing genetic diseases in embryos. (Quotes UCSD stem cell specialist Lawrence Goldstein)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health

Stem Cell Limits Have Scientists Seeing Double
Los Angeles Times, August 9 -- The Bush administration’s embryonic stem cell policy, which now restricts federal support to research involving about 20 cell lines, has created a logistical nightmare for science. Researchers who study both federally approved and unapproved stem cells have had to buy duplicate equipment to conduct their experiments, then set up elaborate systems to keep their work completely separate. (Quotes Larry Goldstein, a professor of cellular and molecular medicine at UCSD).
http://www.latimes.com/news/

Puzzling Out the Truth
The Economist, July 27 -- At the moment, 4.5m Americans have Alzheimer's. By 2050, if nothing changes, that number will have tripled. But if a treatment that delayed the disease's onset by seven years were to be available by the end of the decade, the number of sufferers would decline by 40% by the middle of the century. Hence the importance of understanding how Alzheimer's works, the better to devise a treatment. (Quotes Larry Goldstein, professor of cellular and molecular medicine at UCSD)
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7218403

Researchers Regret Bush's Veto of Stem Cell Bill
USA Today, July 20 -- Embryonic stem cell researchers are reacting with bitter disappointment to President Bush's veto of a bill that would have expanded federal funding of research on newer lines, or colonies, of stem cells. Stem cell researcher Larry Goldstein of UCSD, says newer cells, ones developed with standardized techniques and without non-human tissue contamination, are better than the older NIH-approved cells.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/genetics

Harvard Stem Cells Favored Over Those Produced with U.S. Funds
Bloomberg, July 13 - The Bush administration's restrictions on embryonic stem-cell research are driving scientists to seek out cells from privately funded programs. Embryonic stem cells created at Harvard University are being used three times more often than those from the National Stem Cell Bank, the largest source of cells that can be studied using U.S. research grants. (Quotes Larry Goldstein, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at UCSD)
http://www.bloomberg.com/

UCSD, UC Irvine Get UK Grant
SocalTech.Com, April 20 -- UCSD and UCI have received a grant from the UK Department of Trade and Industry, as part of SETsquared, a UK-based business accelerator program. The grant is part of a program to seed collaboration between technology clusters in the US and the UK, and funds research projects in areas such as life sciences, new materials, stem cells, and tissue engineering.
http://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0003789.html

Scientists in U.S. to Try Human Cloning Koreans Faked
Bloomberg, April 13 -- American scientists plan to create stem cells that have a genetic makeup identical to that of living human adults, a feat that Korean scientists falsely claimed they accomplished last year. (Quotes UCSD researcher Lawrence Goldstein)
http://www.bloomberg.com/

UCSD Researchers Maintain Stem Cells Without Contaminated Animal Feeder Layers
Medical News Today, March 26-The growth and maintenance of human embryonic stem cells in the absence of contaminated animal products has been demonstrated by UCSD School of Medicine researchers.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=21821

Four Research Groups to Form Stem Cell Center
Contra Costa Times, March 18 -- Four San Diego research centers said Friday they were joining forces to create a new, nonprofit institution to study stem cells. The new alliance -- San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine -- is made up of UCSD; Burnham Institute; Salk Institute; and Scripps Research Institute. The collaboration is intended to bring together researchers from various disciplines to study stem cells, which some believe hold promise for treating such debilitating diseases such as Parkinson's and diabetes.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/

Stem Cells by the Sea
Science, March 17 -- Four institutions in southern California are joining forces to pool resources and position themselves better to get grants from the new California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). The four neighbors on Torrey Pines Mesa--UCSD, the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and the Scripps Research Institute--plan to form an entity called the San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol311/issue5767/s-scope.dtl

Stem Cell Research Holds Promise for Victims of Spinal Cord Ischemia
This Week @ UCSD, March 13—Dr. Martin Marsala, an associate professor in the department of anesthesiology, hopes his research with stem cells will one day soon allow people who are suffering from spinal ischemic injury to improve their motor function. His research focuses on is developing cell-replacement therapies aimed at re-populating pools of inhibitory neurons lost when blood supply to the spinal cord is blocked during surgery. While Marsala's research to date has been with rats and mini-pigs, his work is moving towards human trials within the next one to two years, with the goal of promoting motor recovery after spinal cord ischemia.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/thisweek/2006/mar/03_13_stemcell.asp

Stem Cell Work Steps Forward in San Diego
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 7—The next chapter in stem cell research has begun in a cramped laboratory equipped with two high-power microscopes, three liquid-nitrogen freezers, an assortment of in vitro fertilization equipment and 869 human embryos. In what is believed to be the nation's first public embryo bank, scientists at a secret location in San Diego are collecting leftover embryos from in vitro fertilization clinics with plans to send them to stem cell researchers around the globe. (Quotes Michael Kalichman, an ethicist who serves on the board at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/

Stem Cell Scientists Undeterred by Korean Scandal
Olberlin Times (Kansas), Feb. 22—Stem cell researchers are undeterred by the scandal surrounding falsified South Korean research and said on Friday it is only a matter of time before someone clones a human embryo as a source of the valuable cells. They said the field was moving forward despite opposition from the United States and some other governments, and described progress in understanding how the cells might be used some day to transform medicine. (Quotes UCSD’s Dr. Lawrence Goldstein.)
http://www.localnewsleader.com/

Guest Editorial: All Clones Are Not the Same
The New York Times, Feb. 16—Calling human cloning in all its forms an "egregious abuse" is a serious mischaracterization. This makes it sound as if the medical community is out there cloning people, which is simply not true. The phrase "in all of its forms" is code, a way of conflating very different things: reproductive cloning and biomedical cloning. (Mentions Patricia Churchland, chair of the philosophy dept. at UCSD).
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/16/opinion/16gazzaniga.html

Stem Cells from Fat
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 3—Getting rid of that spare tire around your middle could help your heart in more ways than you might expect, according to a San Diego biotechnology company. (Quote by Dr. Judy Swain, UCSD's dean of translational medicine.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/

Stem Cell Cloning Gets Fresh Start
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 11—California scientists are planning to jump into the field of cloning human embryonic stem cells now that a South Korean scientist who claimed to have mastered the technique has been exposed as a fake. In San Diego, stem cell researchers at UCSD and the private Burnham Institute are discussing how together they could research the process that until recently was believed to have been mastered by a team at Seoul National University. (Quote by Larry Goldstein, a stem cell researcher at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/

Stem Cells: Sizing Up 'SCNT'
MSNBC, Jan. 16—Get ready for "Hwang-gate" mania. This week investigators at Seoul National University plan to release the final report on their fallen hero, scientist Hwang Woo-suk. (Refers to research by Larry Goldstein of UCSD.)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10755447/site/newsweek/

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Despite Uncertain Funding, Agency Issues First Grants
San Diego Union-Tribune , Sept. 10, 2005—California's groundbreaking stem cell agency yesterday announced its first grants to train a new generation of scientists in a potentially promising area of research that has been restricted by the federal government. Universities and research institutions throughout the state, including UCSD, received grants to help develop the "intellectual" infrastructure to launch an aggressive program for seeking cures and treatments using human embryonic stem cells.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/

Stem Cell Advocates Seek Research Freedom
San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 25, 2005—Advocates of controversial embryonic stem cell research urged the Bush administration Monday to loosen federal policy to allow new colonies of stem cells to be created with federal grant money. A study released by UCSD over the weekend confirmed the widely held assumption among scientists that the handful of older stem cell lines now eligible for federal research grants had taken up animal proteins, which almost certainly makes the cell lines unsuitable for use in human medicine.
http://www.sfgate.com/

White House Shrugs Off Finding
Contamination Could Bar Stem Cells from Treatment
ABC News, Jan. 24, 2005—The White House is shrugging off a new UCSD study that suggests contamination of the existing lines of embryonic stem cells could bar their use in treating disease.
http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=2849419

Stem Cell Lines Reportedly Contaminated
NBC Nightly News, Jan. 24, 2005—The human embryonic stem cells available for research are contaminated with nonhuman molecules from the culture medium used to grow the cells, UCSD researchers report. See Video
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6860989/

Stem Cell Lines Reportedly Contaminated
New York Times , Jan. 24, 2005—The human embryonic stem cells available for research are contaminated with nonhuman molecules from the culture medium used to grow the cells, researchers report. The nonhuman cell-surface sialic acid can compromise the potential uses of the stem cells in humans, say scientists at UCSD. Their study was published Sunday in the online edition of Nature Medicine.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/enews/articles/2005/01_24_stemcell_nytimes.asp

Another Stem Cell Set-back
Business Week, News Analysis, Jan. 24, 2005—Contamination of one of the few stem-cell lines approved for federal funding highlights how current guidelines hobble academic research.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/

Stem Cell Setbacks
Los Angeles Times, Editorial, Jan. 24, 2005—If it wasn't bad enough that the Bush administration has restricted federally funded stem cell research to 22 previously developed lines, now it turns out that even those precious few lines may be contaminated with a non-human acid that renders them useless to scientists, according to UCSD researchers.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/enews/articles/2005/01_24_stemcell_latimes.asp

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Larry Goldstein on Stem Cells
CNN News, Dec. 5, 2004—The medical panel that advises President Bush on bioethical issues is holding a series of meetings on stem cell research. According to the "The Washington Post," the panel heard descriptions of two new lab techniques that offer the possibility of large numbers of stem cells without the destruction of living human embryos. Larry Goldstein is a stem cell researcher at the University of California , San Diego . He attended the meetings and joins us live from Washington.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/enews/articles/2004/12_06_goldstein.asp