Advances in human stem cell research and their applications to so-called regenerative medicine are going slower than expected, although significant progress has been made, says a new report on the subject by the European Science Foundation. The report recommends, among other things, the continued public support for this research and the clarification of the legal landscape with respect to patents.

Malén Ruiz de Elvira | 6 de julio de 2010

All the political declarations about changing the productive model towards a new system based on knowledge, all the expert guidelines and all the examples tightly associating developed countries with a strong investment in R&D haven't been enough to avoid the cut of the Spanish science budget this year.

Alicia Rivera | 9 February 2010

In only eight years, Chinese researchers have multiplied by 30 the number of articles on stem cells and regenerative medicine in scientific journals of international scope and already publish more than Canada or Australia. With 1,116 articles in 2008, they are in fifth position, behind the United States, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom.

Malén Ruiz de Elvira | 2 February 2010

The United Kingdom has recently announced its incorporation to the race to obtain elements from human blood derived from stem cells, one of the most promising lines of investigation in the short term in this field. With a multimillion effort, sponsored amongst other institutions by the Wellcome Trust, the project will centre around identifying human embryos with few cells which have the O negative group; in other words, universal donors.

Malen Ruiz de Elvira | 23 april 2009