Monday, March 2, 2015

Stem Cell News - March 2, 2015

Researchers discover 'milk' protein that enables survival of the species
"Stem cells and luminal progenitor cells both require MCL-1 for their survival. Our team has previously implicated both these cell types in some types ...
 
Mother wins competition to have baby's stem cells frozen as an 'insurance policy' for later life after ...
The stem cells are an exact DNA match to the baby and can help cure many life threatening diseases, such as leukaemia and sickle cell disease.
 
 Culture Clash: How Stem Cells Are Grown Affects Their Genetic Stability
San Diego, California - The therapeutic promise of human stem cells is indisputably huge, but the process of translating their potential into effective, ...
 
 Eye teeth: Dental stem cells could be used to treat corneal scarring
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, have shown in mice that stem cells from dental pulp, the tissue from the inner part of the tooth, can be ...
 
Graphene Inhibits Lung Cancer Stem Cells' Proliferation
Cancer stem cells are hypothesized as the underlying cause of tumor recurrence, metastasis and drug-resistance. This is due to their resistance to ...
 
Call for more blood stem cell donors in Worcestershire
It says every 20 minutes, someone in the UK is diagnosed with a blood cancer like leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma and blood stem cells from a ...
 
Mutation may cause early loss of sperm supply
"What's fascinating about these mice is they can reproduce," said Richard Freiman, senior author of the new study in the journal Stem Cells. "Mice can ...
 
Deadly shortage of black stem cell donors
As part of stem cell transplants, stem cells are removed from the tissue of donors or, where possible, patients. These cells are usually from human ...
 
 MS stem cell treatment hailed 'miraculous' as patients make dramatic recovery
This is because it isn't clear whether the stem cells worked or if the patients are simply experiencing the remissions that occur naturally in many people ...
 
Stem cells help same-sex couples
When comparing the engineered stem cells to human cells from foetuses, it was found they were identical. Investigator with the Weizmann Institute of ...
 
Europe's first marketing approval for stem cell product granted 'Holoclar is the very first medicinal product based on stem cells to be approved and formally registered in the Western world,' confirmed Andrea Chi
 
Researchers discover 'milk' protein that enables survival of the species
"Stem cells and luminal progenitor cells both require MCL-1 for their survival. Our team has previously implicated both these cell types in some types ...
 
Gene Editing Therapies Thunder Along
However, you need to keep in mind that it's a numbers game and hematopoiesis is driven by only a few stem cells at a time so if you get majority ...
 
Master Gene Regulatory Pathway Revealed as Key Target for Therapy of Aggressive Pediatric ...
“These factors provide stem cells with characteristics that cancer cells also have, such as resistance to environmental insults. These help tumor cells ..
 
Clinical studies offer hope for participants, future generations
Two of the most exciting areas of study at Heartland, Poling said, are an innovative procedure that removes a patient's own fat to harvest stem cells, ...
 
Nourishing the Aging Brain
Decreased cell proliferation also leads to slower division of stem cells, allowing these progenitor cell populations to supply the various cell types of the ...

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