So, the problem is that the clinical trial was done, and we were a part of it, and in the fundamental clinical trial the pivotal clinical trial we call the Phase Three, we refused to use a placebo.

And so if you think about it, the depressing thing is that

The first of these is informed consent.

I mean, look, it doesn't take a double blind, placebo controlled study to figure out what makes a marriage not work.

Of a drug that Dr. Bell created in '81

You have to go to the clinic to do it.

Random representative sampling, independent and dependent variables, double blind, single blind experiments, confounds and causality.

That's about it.

Now, this is subject to a lot of debate and controversy.

And we went around and we talked to people, and they said, You can't run a clinical trial like this.

I do not stand here today to suggest in any way that conducting HlV clinical trials in developing countries is bad.

We can do high frequency monitoring to get objective data.

So we know it can work.

The one I'm describing here it was double blind.

They had to give it also in the U.S. to get approval, so I think there were three U.S. patients in upstate New York who were part of the trial.

There was, it turns out, a second clinical trial.

Three years ago, she entered the Novocure lung cancer trial.

Now, researchers need to make every effort to ensure that an intervention that has been shown to be beneficial during a clinical trial is accessible to the participants of the trial once the trial has been completed.

Novocure's also working on lung cancer as the second target.

So, the program that we're involved in is something which we call

There's no clinical progress to report.

The final point I would like for you to consider tonight is what happens to participants in the clinical trial once the research has been completed.

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The cells genetically know what to do, and they start beating together.

And the child and the parents who consented to allowing their children to participate in these clinical trials, they didn't know if the child was getting the vaccine or not, in the double blind cases.

It's actually scary. It's beautiful.

Examination?

I think it is absolutely wrong for research to begin in the first place without a clear plan for what would happen to the participants once the trial has ended.

So, we went back, and we've been working harder yet.

There are 170 clinical trials investigating the role of stem cells in heart disease.

Because in the study I showed you, there might have been confounds. It also wasn't double blind.

The material is actually being coated with the cells.

The other nice thing about this as an example to start with is, this is a, what's called a double blind experiment.

There were some cases where, in the Salk vaccine trials where they did know.

I finally had one small paper sensor that could detect pancreatic cancer with 100 percent accuracy.

As we speak, there are 117 or so clinical trials researching the use of stem cells for liver diseases.

At this point, he was told by his doctors that he had about 3 months to live.

As part of a clinical trial for sleep disorders.

You all know about embryonic stem cells.

There are four major conferences on building blood cell sized devices there are many experiments in animals.

In this case here, a new, wearable bio reactor has been designed it should be tested clinically later this year at ISR by Joerg Gerlach in Pittsburgh.

One of the most fundamental clinical trials in cancer came out in February in the New England Journal of Medicine, where they took women who were pre menopausal with breast cancer.

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However, the best current treatment available anywhere in the world is often very difficult to provide in developing countries.

And these devices are getting smaller and going into more and more of these patients.