WASHINGTON - US AUTHORITIES have approved the first human trials using embryonic stem cells testing a pioneering therapy for paralysed patients, the FDA said Friday.
WASHINGTON - US PRESIDENT Barack Obama on Friday will lift restrictions on US government funding for groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, reversing a policy of his Republican predecessor George W. Bush, an administration official said.
'It will be today. He's going to make an executive order (lifting the global gag rule),' the official said.
MILAN (Italy) - AN ITALIAN union has called on Alitalia staff to step up strike action in protest at working conditions following lay-offs at the newly privatised airline, a statement said on Friday.
'After the four-hour strike on Jan 19, which did not bring any positive response from management, the (SDL union) has called for a new strike on March 4,' the union statement said, saying it would 'last for 24 hours' this time.
WASHINGTON - US BIOTECH firm Geron Corp announced on Friday it had been cleared to carry out the first human trials using embryonic stem cells, testing the therapy on patients paralysed by spinal-cord injury.
In a press release, the Menlo Park, California firm said the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had cleared it for the first phase of trials of a novel therapy called GRNOPC1.
