by Christopher Scott
In July 2007 I did a quick rundown of stem cell clinical trials found in the world’s largest registry, ClinicalTrials.gov. Then the registry contained information on 45,000 federally and privately supported clinical trials in 140 countries. Since then the database has exploded to over 70,000 records in 165 countries. The website was [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘gene therapy’
March 21, 2009
The Stem Cell Clinical Trials Index (2)
December 13, 2008
Can We Learn from Gene Therapy?
Not so long ago, gene therapy was the ‘Next Big Thing’ in medicine. To some bioethicists, stem cell trials seem to carry the same baggage as the early years of gene therapy.
November 14, 2007
Gene Therapy and Stem Cells
by Christopher Scott
Buried at the bottom of TSC’s Best of October is a press release from a Richmond, California company, Sangamo Biosciences. It gives a peek at the secrets of a new technology that could change the way we think about “gene therapy.”
The technology, which can insert a stretch of DNA at a targeted [...]
