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Fibroblast Growth Factor FGF Stem Cell Therapy – Video

By Dr. Matthew Watson


Fibroblast Growth Factor FGF Stem Cell Therapy
Fibroblast Growth Factor Heals Heart Tissue by Feeding Stem Cells present.

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Thumb Arthroscopy with Stem Cell Therapy – Video

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Thumb Arthroscopy with Stem Cell Therapy
Hand surgeon Dr. Michael Fitzmaurice details the thumb arthroscopy procedure that he pioneered, involving an endoscopic approach and stem cell therapy (PRP) ...

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Sarasota's Dr .Guy DaSilva Introduces Cutting-Edge Stem Cell Therapy For Degenerative Diseases

By JoanneRUSSELL25

Sarasota, Florida (PRWEB) June 03, 2013

Guy DaSilva, MD, ABAARM, will begin conducting clinical trials for many degenerative diseases using adipose-derived stem cell therapy at the DaSilva Institute in Sarasota, Florida. The independent review board of the International Stem Cell Society will oversee the trials.

Following the FDA-approved protocols, Dr. DaSilva will treat patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Type 2 Diabetes, osteoarthritis, critical limb ischemia and erectile dysfunction. Furthermore, Alzheimers disease, dementia and Parkinsons disease are pending approval, and approximately five new protocols are added each month.

While stem cell therapy is most often associated with the controversial use of embryonic stem cells, Dr. DaSilva will be exclusively using adult autologous stem cells, harvested from the patients own adipose (fat) tissue or bone marrow if fat is not available. Because patients are receiving their own cells, there is no risk of rejection, and success rates are far greater compared to the more contentious therapies.

Autologous stem cell therapy works by mimicking the bodys natural healing process, but at a more potent, concentrated level. Stem cells, which are unspecialized cells with the potential to develop into any cell, are stored throughout the body. When disease or injury strikes, the body sends these cells to the area in need, and they begin repairing and replacing damaged tissue. Stem cell function decreases with age, along with ones ability to heal. But with autologous stem cell therapy, the body is once again empowered to heal and reverse disease, and with much greater magnitude.

Dr. DaSilva trained under scientist Kristin Comella, Chief Science Officer of Bioheart, CEO of Stemlogix, Chief Scientific Officer of the Ageless Regenerative Institute, and was recently named one of the 50 most influential people on stem cells. Dr. DaSilva will implement Comellas patented extraction process to precisely isolate and remove stem cells from fat tissue, allowing for an exceptionally high yield and viability.

During the in-office procedure, a mini liposuction is performed on the patient to remove 60 milliliters of fat, which produce approximately 8 million stem cells. The stem cells are isolated and injected back into the patients body at the site of injury or disease. Only local anesthesia is needed, and the patient will go home pain-free.

Over the next month, the patients body will repair and regenerate itself naturally. Dr. DaSilva will continue to treat the patient, with therapies that range from high dose IV nutrition and heavy metal chelation to bio-identical hormones. This helps the body maintain a healthy environment to further promote cellular and mitochondrial healing.

According to Dr. DaSilva, autologous stem cell therapy is very promising. He says, This extraordinary therapy is going to change the face of medicine. For example, it has the capability to completely reverse Type 2 Diabetes with a single dose, allowing patients to avoid amputations, premature death, and a life of food monitoring and injections. The results are truly remarkable, and this is only the beginning.

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Genetic Engineering Alters Mosquitoes’ Sense of Smell – Science Daily (press release)

By Dr. Matthew Watson


Philly.com
Genetic Engineering Alters Mosquitoes' Sense of Smell
Science Daily (press release)
Vosshall's team turned to a genetic engineering tool called zinc-finger nucleases to specifically mutate the orco gene in Aedes aegypti. They injected the targeted zinc-finger nucleases into mosquito embryos, waited for them to mature, identified ...
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Specialists visit Basin to discuss genetic engineering – Herald and News

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Specialists visit Basin to discuss genetic engineering
Herald and News
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Genetic Engineering: Two Million People In 52 Countries March Against Monsanto – Center for Research on Globalization

By Dr. Matthew Watson

Genetic Engineering: Two Million People In 52 Countries March Against Monsanto
Center for Research on Globalization
Among the challenges facing agriculture are producing food for our growing population and reducing agriculture's footprint on the environment. While we respect each individual's right to express their point of view on these topics, we believe we are ...

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How good to use home pregnancy tests

By Dr. Matthew Watson

Home pregnancy tests have been practiced for long by women and is quite trusted way of confirming your doubts when it comes to conceiving. Here are certain signs that can tell you that you are probably pregnant.

If you have missed your period or you are having an abnormal or unusual period may be you are pregnant. If you have got frequent urinating tendencies or you throw up (vomit) again and again it is possible that you are pregnant. Generally women tend to lose their control over bladder when pregnant; it is very hard to control excretion of urine. Morning sickness or nausea is a tendency that is observed in pregnant women. They cannot resist throwing up again and again during the second and third months of pregnancy. Enlargement or soreness in breast is also indicates that possibly you are pregnant. Breast starts to grow big and become painful. If your breast is releasing colostrums, uterus is enlarged or you are getting a lot of stretch marks there is a possibility that you may be pregnant. In case you have frequent strange cravings like you have never had in past may be a n indication that you are pregnant.

However, these are not confirmed signs of pregnancy. Some of these symptoms when experienced together increase the probability of one’s pregnancy. You should immediately rush for a pregnancy test if you are even a little doubtful. This will clarify your doubts as it is a reliable way to test your pregnancy by yourself. You can also trace the pregnancy by an ultrasound test but home pregnancy strip test is more handy, cheap and reliable.

In case you are planning to conceive these are some symptoms that might be pointing towards your positive result on a pregnancy strip. Be happy you are experiencing such phenomenon and consult a doctor as soon as possible. Apart from all this reflect on your inner sight you can feel it when you are pregnant and the tests suggested above are just a primary confirmation.

In case you do not want to bear there are ways to get out of the web. Contraceptive pills are available in the market which can be a help in forbidding any pregnancy. There are pills that you can take within 72 hours after having unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy but its intake again and again can cause side effects. If you detect a positive on the pregnancy strip, you will have to abort it whether it is by an abortion pill or by any other method.

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Allendale biotechnology executive reaches $11M settlement with state for fraud – NorthJersey.com

By Dr. Matthew Watson

Allendale biotechnology executive reaches $11M settlement with state for fraud
NorthJersey.com
A former executive of three Allendale-based biotechnology companies has reached an $11 million settlement of a civil complaint with the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs' Bureau of Securities for defrauding investors, the state said Thursday.

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MNNIT includes short-term course on biotechnology – Times of India

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MNNIT includes short-term course on biotechnology
Times of India
ALLAHABAD: The department of biotechnology of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology ( MNNIT) Allahabad is leaving no stone unturned in creating excellence in academic pursuits. This time, the department has come up with a short term course on ...

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The UAE’s biotechnology sector needs injection of boldness – The National

By Dr. Matthew Watson


The National
The UAE's biotechnology sector needs injection of boldness
The National
In September 2010, one of us was invited to Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed's Ramadan majlis to hear Juan Enriquez, a world expert on biotechnology. Mr Enriquez voiced to the UAE leadership exactly the concerns we have long shared, reaffirming our ...

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Dyadic International To Present At World Biotechnology Congress 2013 And BIO … – PR Newswire (press release)

By Dr. Matthew Watson

Dyadic International To Present At World Biotechnology Congress 2013 And BIO ...
PR Newswire (press release)
JUPITER, Fla., May 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dyadic International, Inc. ("Dyadic") (OTC Pink: DYAI), announced today that its President and CEO, Mark Emalfarb , will present at the World Biotechnology Congress 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts and the BIO ...

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Where am I? > Home > Sci/tech > Apigenin-rich foods may help d… – Environmental News Network

By Dr. Matthew Watson

Where am I? > Home > Sci/tech > Apigenin-rich foods may help d...
Environmental News Network
"We know we need to eat healthfully, but in most cases we don't know the actual mechanistic reasons for why we need to do that," said Andrea Doseff, associate professor of internal medicine and molecular genetics at Ohio State and a co-lead author of ...

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Google CEO s Condition Spotlights Vocal Cord Paralysis and Its Treatment

By Dr. Matthew Watson

When Google CEO Larry Page blogged about his struggles speaking and, at times, breathing last week on his Google+ page he spotlighted a rare condition, bilateral vocal cord paralysis , which leaves sufferers short of breath and with few viable treatment options. This is likely to change in coming years. Page has deep pockets and has promised to fund research into the disorder via the Voice Health Institute . In the meantime scientists are experimenting with electrical stimulation technologies to enhance existing voice therapy as well as surgical treatments. [More]



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Bluebird bio of Massachusetts Still Waiting for California Stem Cell Money

By Dr. Matthew Watson

Seven months after the California stem
cell agency awarded $9.4 million to bluebird bio of Cambridge, Mass.,
the company has yet to receive any of the cash from the Golden State.
Kevin McCormack, a spokesman for the $3
billion agency, this week said negotiations are still underway with
the bluebird, which is planning to go public,  but did not elaborate. Post-award negotiations are
common at the agency, but generally take much less time.
The cash from CIRM is scheduled to
assist in clinical trials for a stem cell-gene therapy to correct a genetic disease in young patients with B-thalassemia, a
rare blood disorder that can cause widespread organ damage
and premature death.
Earlier this month, bluebird bio, which
prefers the lower case lettering for its name, announced that it
intends to take the company public in an $86 million offering. In
March, it announced a collaboration with Celgene that provided for an upfront payment of $75 million and promised up to $225 million per
product in potential option fees and clinical and regulatory
milestones. The CIRM grant is conditioned on a matching commitment
from bluebird.
Cash from the stem cell agency can only
be spent on operations within California. According to the CIRM summary of the review of the bluebird application, which was scored
at 73, the company said,

“We will have at least two clinical
sites in California, and more likely up to 4 sites, 2) our viral
vector manufacturing will occur in California, 3) our cell processing
will occur in California, 4) we will hire several consultants and
full-time employees within California to support the program.
Overall, several million dollars will be spent employing the services
of people, academic institutions, and other companies within the
state of California.”

The company has said that it is working
with Donald Kohn at UCLA and Elliot Vichinsky at Oakland's Children's
Hospital.
The bluebird web site lists a
California location for bluebird at 1001 Bayhill Dr, Suite 200, in
San Bruno, which is south of San Francisco. An Internet search
indicates that is a generic address for a number of business
including a realty firm, a roof repair business and a family law
attorney. The California Stem Cell Report has asked bluebird to
clarify the nature of the address.
In an interview last October with Ron Leuty of the
San Francisco Business Times, David Davidson, the lead scientist on
the project, said,

“We began the process (with CIRM)
early in (2012) but discussions have been going on for over a year
about potentially pursuing this.

“The interaction with CIRM has been
extraordinarily collaborative. We had contact with the coordinators
at CIRM that helped us manage the process. It took a lot of effort on
our part to put together a dossier providing support for our program.
It was really like a mini-regulatory filing — on the science, the
preclinical toxicology work that we’ve done, a detailed plan for
the trial, a detailed plan for the budgets, a detailed plan on how we
intended to spend the CIRM money in California. That was an important
part of it. They wanted a clear plan on how this investment would be
spent."

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Vatican Funding for California Stem Cell Agency?

By Dr. Matthew Watson

So what's with the Vatican sending cash
to the California stem cell agency? One would imagine that is an
improbable event since the agency is involved in human embryonic stem
cell research, which is an anathema to the Roman Catholic church.
However, CIRM President Alan Trounson
earlier this week disclosed the payment in an interview with Patt
Morrison
of the Los Angeles Times. He said,

“Last
year I was invited to the Vatican to
present a paper, but when I sent in a summary of what I was going to
say, they decided not to have it. They sent a check to the treasurer
of California and the treasurer rang us up and said, "What the
heck is this check from the Vatican for?" It was for the
inconvenience!”

We wanted to know a little more about
this so we queried the agency about the matter. Kevin McCormack, a
CIRM spokesman, said,

“The money was actually a wire
transfer from the Vatican to us for $453.23 and it went to CIRM's
account. It was to reimburse us for money spent on plane tickets,
etc., for Dr. Trounson to attend the Vatican conference on stem
cells.”   

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Monterey Newspaper Chides California Stem Cell Agency

By Dr. Matthew Watson

The California stem cell agency and its
former chairman, Robert Klein, came under sharp criticism this week
in an editorial in the Monterey County Herald newspaper.
The editorial cited articles on the
California Stem Cell Report dealing with a $21,630 gift by Klein to
the agency, his employment of the vice chairman of the agency and the
violation of the agency's conflict of interest policies by a grant reviewer.
The editorial was headlined "State Stem Cell Agency Still Up to Old Tricks." The piece said,

“Robert Klein is no longer chairman
of California's stem cell bureaucracy, but it is still doing things
his way. Which is too bad for all concerned.

“Klein is the former developer and
financier who wrote and sponsored the ballot measure that created the
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. The ballot language
practically guaranteed he would be the chairman, and he ran the
agency the way he ran his businesses, using undisclosed side deals
and other machinations to create webs that outsiders could never
penetrate.

“Now, Klein has been replaced as
chairman, but he is still up to his old tricks.”

The editorial concluded,

“Much has been said about the agency
setting a new more straightforward direction now that Klein is gone,
but so far it seems to be following a twisting and expensive path
toward irrelevance and litigation.”

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California’s Alpha Stem Cell Clinics: Open in 2014, Six to Eight Locations

By Dr. Matthew Watson

The San Francisco Business Times
yesterday said that the first Alpha Clinic sponsored by the $3
billion California stem cell agency could open as early as 2014.
The timing was disclosed by CIRM
President Alan Trounson in an article by Ron Leuty, who also reported
that that Trounson's $70 million proposal (see here and here) would involve as many as
six to eight clinics. The locations of the clinics was not disclosed
and would be subject to a competitive RFA. However, Leuty's piece
mentioned UC San Francisco and Stanford.
The article also said initial
treatments might focus on eye disease, “brain therapies” and
spinal cord injuries.
The Alpha Clinic plan is scheduled to
come before the CIRM board in late July. The proposal is aimed at
speeding stem cell treatments and creating something of a one-stop
shopping experience for patients.

Once the CIRM board approves the
concept, an RFA will be issued and interested institutions will have
to submit bids and compete for funding.  

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$70 Million Alpha Stem Cell Clinic Proposal Draws Reader Comment

By Dr. Matthew Watson

In addition to the comments filed online in connection with the $70 million proposal to create Alpha Clinics in California for stem cell treatments,  two other readers commented privately in emails. 
One came from a close observer of the
stem cell agency who said, “If done right -- and I'm sure you and I
agree that is a big 'if' – it could be an outstanding legacy.”
The other comment came from a
physician-researcher at a major California institution and was longer
and more critical. Here is the text.

“Another boondoggle for some medical
schools but made to order for private operators like for profit
cancer, dialysis, and laser eye specialty clinics that do one
procedure.  I can see each of the medical schools gifted with
one as they each were gifted with about 25 million dollars for stem
cell institute buildings; and CIRM and (Irv) Weissman's companies
like Stem Cells, Inc., getting a piece of the action as well.  Of
course the deans and chancellors on the CIRM steering committee will
vote for it. How can they not? It's money in their pockets.

“This has the fit and feel of, say,
old Latin American Laetrile clinics or offshore clinics offering
suspect surgeries or injections for cancers, Parkinson's disease, and
the like.  It makes no difference that they are set up in
California.  CIRM will pay for an unneeded infrastructure that
will be empty space and staff sitting on their hands 99% of the
time.  Or worse yet, CIRM will pay but the space will be used
for other things, other clinic procedures paid for by insurance.  

“Now (CIRM President Alan) Trounson and
CIRM want to get into the medical tourism business making California
a 'go-to place' for stem cell treatments.  They want to start
with bone marrow injections and transplants, procedures that cancer
centers do regularly.  All CIRM needs is a drug or treatment. 
It's not like there are tons of drugs out there and the only barrier
is the lack of clinical space and capacity.  The start up time
for any one drug is very long.

“NIH at various times has tried to
organize clinical trials groups with infrastructure, like quick
reaction forces, ready to gear up for a new trial at the drop of a
hat. They mainly did nothing but suck money, kept staff employed,
because there are generally few drugs ready for early human trials
and each treatment that is brought along requires a unique contract,
ethics reviews, and different facilities, equipment and staff than
planned for.  The latest incarnation are CTSAs or CTSIs,
clinical and translational science centers funded by the federal NIH
that most if not all California medical schools already have.

“The CIRM clinics are going to be
generic stem cell clinics advancing California tourism.  Come to
California, we will inject stem cells for any illness, in any part of
your body, never mind that cancer is different from heart disease is
different from bone disease is different from brain disease, no
matter.  Next step is for CIRM to form a travel agency with
discounted air and Ritz Carlton packages for patients and extended
family non-stop from China.  There is likely considerable
revenue to be generated here and Trounson, Weissman, and (Robert)
Klein
(former CIRM chairman) should find a way to benefit. It sounds
so wonderful!!  The public will love it.  Now all they need
are some treatments.  Love the name: Alpha Clinics, they
wouldn't want to start with Beta test clinics when they can go big
from the get-go.  What an irresponsible waste.”    

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Trounson Proposes $70 Million, Fast-Track Stem Cell Clinic Plan for California

By Dr. Matthew Watson

Alan Trounson, president of the
California stem cell agency, this summer plans to seek $70 million
for creation of what he calls Alpha Clinics, high-powered
organizations that will fast-track stem cell therapies to patients.
The proposal is scheduled to come
before CIRM board at its meeting in late July and would consume a
significant slice of the $700 million to $800 million that the $3
billion agency has left to hand out.
Trounson broached the need for the
clinics as far back as two years ago, but did not put a price tag on
the concept until an interview published online late today in the Los
Angeles Times
. The interview will be carried in the print edition of
the paper tomorrow.
In the Q&A session between Times
columnist Patt Morrison and Trounson, he said, 

"I'm intending to set up a network of
stem cell clinics in California in the next couple of years, to make
treatments available as clinical trials or as registered treatments
for patients. I'm going to ask the [CIRM] board for about $70 million
to get that set up. It will make California a go-to place for stem
cell therapies. I want to make sure it's part of our medical fabric."

In other media reports in previous
years, Trounson has said the Alpha Clinics would speed delivery of
stem cell-based therapies and reduce costs of clinical trials by
building on the success of specialist cancer, transplant and in-vitro
fertilization clinics.
Leigh Dayton wrote about Trounson's
plan in The Australian last July 14. Dayton said,

“Initially the clinics would use the
capacities and infrastructure in the most advanced university medical
clinics to deliver bone-marrow stem cell therapies. As research
evolves, so will the treatments and services offered.”

Trounson also discussed the Alpha
Clinics during an appearance at USC in 2011. A university publication wrote,

"These clinics will initially serve
to get patients into clinical trials or to offer sound advice to
individuals who might otherwise go overseas to receive harmful stem
cell therapies from disreputable clinics.

"'I’m willing to invest money to
get these [clinics] up,' Trounson said. 'I think if nothing happens
beyond 2017 and we don’t get any refunding, we can leave a
footprint of stem cell clinics in California that will go on
forever.'"

Trounson was not at last week's CIRM
board meeting, but Ellen Feigal, senior vice president for research
and development, said a white paper is being prepared on Alpha
Clinics. She said a concept proposal would be brought to the board
July 25 at a meeting in the San Francisco Bay Area. Once the board
approves the concept, the staff will then prepare and post the RFA.

Interested parties can address
suggestions or questions to Feigal at info@cirm.ca.gov.

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Sacramento Bee: Ongoing Conflict Problems No Help for Future Funding of Stem Cell Agency

By Dr. Matthew Watson

The Sacramento Bee says conflict of
interest problems continue to trouble the California stem cell agency
despite its assertions that it has “turned a page” on the issues.
In an editorial Saturday, The Bee said
that CIRM Chairman Jonathan Thomas “has vowed to be aggressive in
avoiding conflicts in dispersing millions of public dollars for stem
cell research. Yet serious conflicts continue to be
revealed involving CIRM.”
The Bee cited articles on the
California Stem Cell Report earlier this month about a $21,630 gift
by its former chairman, Robert Klein, and the employment by Klein of
Vice Chairman Art Torres. The Bee said the situation “throws
into question a $20 million grant awarded last year to StemCells
Inc.
, a company that wants to transplant neural stem
cells to treat Alzheimer's
disease.” (See herehere and here)
The Bee also cited the case of Lee
Hood
, an internationally renown scientist who violated the agency's conflict of interest policy. Hood failed to disclose to CIRM a
conflict involving an application that he was reviewing on behalf of
the agency. The Bee said the agency's failure to detect the conflict
was “serious oversight."
Eight readers commented on the
editorial and agency, generally unfavorably about CIRM.
But reader “bchild” said,

“It took a couple years for them to start funding projects and it may take years to see results. Wall
Street got 1.5 trillion and the promise of 10x that if they get
into trouble again, the scientists (and their business buds) just
want a couple billion...In the end who do you trust more with
public money? At least there is the appearance of public benefit
here..."

The Bee concluded,

“None of this helps CIRM's reputation
in being fair and impartial in spending $3 billion in public funds.
It surely won't help the institute's standing with the Legislature
and the public, should it need help staying in operation when its
funding is exhausted in a few years.”

The editorial was also carried by at least one other paper in the McClatchy chain.

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