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The King is Dead, Long Live the King: Entering A New Era of Stem Cell Research and Clinical Development

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Translational Medicine, December 2011
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Title
The King is Dead, Long Live the King: Entering A New Era of Stem Cell Research and Clinical Development
Published in
Journal of Translational Medicine, December 2011
DOI 10.1186/1479-5876-9-218
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Authors

Thomas Ichim, Neil H Riordan, David F Stroncek

Abstract

In mid November the biopharma industry was shocked by the announcement from Geron that they were ending work on embryonic stem cell research and therapy. For more than 10 years the public image of all stem cell research has been equated with embryonic stem cells. Unfortunately, a fundamentally important medical and financial fact was being ignored: embryonic stem cell therapy is extremely immature. In parallel to efforts in embryonic stem cell research and development, scientists and physicians in the field of adult stem cells realized that the natural role of adult stem cells in the body is to promote healing and to act like endogenous "repair cells" and, as a result, numerous companies have entered the field of adult stem cell therapy with the goal of expanding numbers of adult stem cells for administration to patients with various conditions. In contrast to embryonic stem cells, which are extremely expensive and potentially dangerous, adult cell cells are inexpensive and have an excellent safety record when used in humans. Many studies are now showing that adult stem cells are practical, patient-applicable, therapeutics that are very close to being available for incorporation into the practice of medicine. These events signal the entrance of the field of stem cells into a new era: an era where hype and misinformation no longer triumph over economic and medical realities.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Indonesia 1 3%
Unknown 30 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 19%
Professor 3 10%
Student > Master 3 10%
Other 2 6%
Other 5 16%
Unknown 5 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 26%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 23%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 9 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 January 2023.
All research outputs
#4,466,794
of 25,152,132 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Translational Medicine
#774
of 4,571 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#36,101
of 255,280 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Translational Medicine
#11
of 60 outputs
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