Stem Cell Therapeutics Firm ISCO, in Clinical Trial for Parkinson’s, Reviews Key Achievements of 2016

International Stem Cell Corp. (ISCO) says two of its biggest achievements in the last quarter of 2016 was demonstrating that ISC-hpNSC can improve cognitive performance and motor coordination in rodents with traumatic brain injury, and successfully transplanting 30 million ISC-hpNSC cells into a second patient in a clinical trial for…

Phase 1 Study of Stem Cell Therapy for Parkinson’s Getting Underway, Recruiting Patients

International Stem Cell Corporation discussed advance work, leading to the first clinical trial to explore parthenogenetic stem cell transplants for patients with Parkinson’s disease, at the ongoing Society for Neuroscience 2016 Annual Meeting in San Diego. The presentation, “Transplantation of neural stem cells for parkinson’s disease, an update of the first-in-human clinical…