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Research Documents Scalable Production, Survival Following Engraftment and Positive Impact on Cardiac Function in Infarcted Rats for Geron's Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Based Therapeutic for Heart Failure

...maceuticals for thetreatment of cancer and chronic degenerative diseases, includingspinal cord injury, heart failure, diabetes and HIV/AIDS. Thecompany is advancing an anti-cancer drug and a cancer vaccine thattarget the enzyme telomerase through multiple clinical trials.Geron is also the world leader in the deve...

Pluristem's PLX Cells Demonstrate Potential to Treat Parkinson's Disease

...ut Parkinson's Disease PD is a well characterized degenerative neurological diseasewhose symptoms are felt to be related to damage todopamine-producing cells in the Central Nervous System (CNS). PD isfelt to currently afflict approximately four million people in thewestern world which represents a multi-billion ...

Geron's Telomerase Inhibitor Cancer Drug Demonstrates Good Pharmacokinetics and Tolerability in Phase I/II Trial

...maceuticals for thetreatment of cancer and chronic degenerative diseases, includingspinal cord injury, heart failure, diabetes and HIV/AIDS. Thecompany is advancing an anti-cancer drug and a cancer vaccine thattarget the enzyme telomerase through multiple clinical trials.Geron is also the world leader in the deve...

Research Indicates Geron's Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Based Therapeutic for Spinal Cord Injury Evades Direct Attack by the Human Immune System

...maceuticals for thetreatment of cancer and chronic degenerative diseases, includingspinal cord injury, heart failure, diabetes and HIV/AIDS. Thecompany is advancing an anti-cancer drug and a cancer vaccine thattarget the enzyme telomerase through multiple clinical trials.Geron is also the world leader in the deve...

Promising Data on Cognitive Effects of Safinamide in Early Parkinson's Disease

...Parkinson’s disease Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the centralnervous system that often impairs the sufferer's motor skills andspeech. Parkinson's disease belongs to a group of conditions calledmovement disorders. It is characterized by muscle rigidity, tremor,a slowing of physical moveme...

International Movement Disorder Specialists Receive New Information About the Use of Once-Daily Azilect in the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease

...n's Disease Parkinson's disease is an age-related degenerative disorder ofthe brain. Symptoms can include tremor, stiffness, slowness ofmovement, and impaired balance. An estimated 1 million Americanshave the disease, which usually affects people over the age of60. About Teva Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd...

Vision Deficit in Retinitis Pigmentosa Mice Corrected with DNA Nanoparticles

...possiblycuring a variety of vision-robbing retinal degenerative diseases,"says Stephen Rose, Ph.D., Chief Research Officer, FoundationFighting Blindness. "Dr. Naash and Copernicus are demonstratingthat nanoparticles show excellent potential for safely andeffectively delivering therapeutic genes to the retina." Dr...

Clinical Trial Results Suggest Long-Term Treatment Benefit of Tetrabenazine for Chorea Associated with Huntington's Disease

...Disease Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited degenerative braindisorder that affects 1 in 10,000 Americans and causes involuntarymovements (chorea) and deterioration in the ability to think, walk,talk and reason. HD is hereditary, with each child of an affectedparent having a 50% chance of inheriting the ge...

Phase III Data on Safinamide in Parkinson’s Disease Presented at American Academy of Neurology 59th Annual Meeting

...arkinson’s disease Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorderof the central nervous system that often impairs the sufferer'smotor skills and speech. Parkinson's disease belongs to a group ofconditions called movement disorders. It is characterized by musclerigidity, tremor, a slowing of physical moveme...

Telomerase Presentations at the AACR 2007 Annual Meeting

...maceuticals for thetreatment of cancer and chronic degenerative diseases, includingspinal cord injury, heart failure, diabetes and HIV/AIDS. Thecompany is advancing an anti-cancer drug and a cancer vaccine thattarget the enzyme telomerase through multiple clinical trials.Geron is also the world leader in the deve...

Cortex Area Thinner in Youth with Alzheimers-Related Gene

... mantle, may render these youth moresusceptible to degenerative changes and mental decline later inlife, propose Drs. Philip Shaw, Judith Rapoport, Jay Giedd, andNIMH and McGill University colleagues. They report on how variationin the gene for apoliproprotein (ApoE), which plays a critical rolein repair of brain...

American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Accepts New Data on AVR118 for Publication in 2007 Abstract Book

...wound healing properties in animalmodels. Various degenerative conditions associated with body wasting(cachexia) such as cancer, HIV/AIDS and chronic inflammation arepotential disease targets for AVR118 therapy. Note: This news release contains forward-looking statements thatinvolve risks associated with clinic...