developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Emma Kemp, on 18 October 2011
The European Court of Justice has today announced a landmark decision banning patenting of inventions based on embryonic stem cells. Several senior stem cell biologists have expressed their concern that ...Posted by Emma Kemp, on 28 April 2011
Last month, the advocate-general of the European Court of Justice gave his opinion on a long-running legal debate about a patent filed several years ago in Germany. If the Court follows his ...Posted by Emma Kemp, on 11 March 2011
I expect many of you have already seen reports that the European Advocate General has taken a very restrictive view on patents for technologies that use human embyronic stem cells. ...Posted by Emma Kemp, on 2 March 2011
The discovery of iPS made headlines the world over, and rightly so. But recently, transdifferentiation between somatic cell types has also been the focus of considerable attention. A couple of ...Posted by Emma Kemp, on 3 February 2011
I’m one of a team of science communicators, scientists, clinicians and social scientists involved in a project called EuroStemCell. It’s an EU-funded project that unites more than 90 European stem ...