Tip Sheets
Innovative cancer care – Stem cell-related resources
Resources contributed at Health Journalism 2016 by Stanton L. Gerson, M.D., of University Hospitals.
April 8, 2016
The National Center for Regenerative Medicine
http://www.case.edu/medicine/ncrm/
University Hospitals, Seidman Cancer Center
http://www.uhhospitals.org/seidman
The Tesar Laboratory at Case Western Reserve University
http://tesarlab.case.edu/
The Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
http://hsci.harvard.edu/ and http://www.scrb.harvard.edu/
International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)
http://www.isscr.org/
The ISSCR's public-facing educational page about stem cells and clinical use
http://www.closerlookatstemcells.org/
The ISSCR's Guidelines for Clinical Translation of Stem Cells (2008)
http://www.isscr.org/docs/guidelines/isscrglclinicaltrans.pdf
The ISSCR's draft version of their updated 2015 guidelines
http://www.isscr.org/docs/default-source/hesc-guidelines/isscr-draft-guidelines-for-stem-cell-science-and-clinical-translation.pdf
An informative website about stem cells at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics/Pages/Default.aspx
More general stem cell information from the NIH
http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/Pages/Default.aspx
NIH's searchable database of clinical trials
https://clinicaltrials.gov
Stem cell basics from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)
https://www.cirm.ca.gov/patients
The Stem Cellar- CIRM's blog
http://blog.cirm.ca.gov/
The United States National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Human Gene-Editing Initiative website
http://www.nationa!academies.org/gene-editing/index.htm
Multi-scientist commentary on human germline gene modification
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4394183/
An open-access article on the history of the field leading up to the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Shinya Yamanaka and Sir John Gurdon for their work on cellular reprogramming
“From Stealing Fire to Cellular Reprogramming: A Scientific History Leading to the 2012 Nobel Prize”
http://www.cell.com/stem-cell-reports/abstract/S2213-6711(13)00012-X