Showing posts with label blood donors. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 8, 2015

Stem Cell News - March 8, 2015


Experimental Lung Cancer Therapy Trial For UK
The pioneering combination of stem cells and gene therapy will be first given to human volunteers to confirm it is safe - and then to 56 patients to see if ...

Harvard Scientists Develop Cas9-based Method to Reprogram Gene Expression
Finally, the researchers used VPR to induce "rapid and robust" differentiation in human induced pluripotent stem cells, growing neurons from the cells.
FDA Grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation to EBV-CTL
FDA granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to EBV-CTL for the treatment of Epstein-Barr Virus following transplant of bone marrow stem cells.
Researchers develop technique to generate hyaline cartilage
... of Kyoto University researchers has announced that it developed a method to generate strong hyaline cartilage from induced pluripotent stem cells.
  
The Register 
News of one new type of targeted approach emerged this week – using genetically altered stem cells taken from bone marrow to destroy cancer cells ...

The next generation of joint injections  

The most important compound is PDGF, or platelet-derived growth factor, which causes stem cells (more on those in a minute) to be released from ...

Registries seek to match donors with marrow demand that is rising

There are two strategies to donate bone marrow stem cells. In the first procedure, the donor undergoes anesthesia and physicians suck compact ...

International Women's day: Saving lives, one stem cell donation at a time

Twenty-five-year-old Sherin Cherian, Sneha Shah, 27 and Meenakshi V, 55, are real-life heroines — they donate their blood stem cells to patients in ...

End knee pain with stem cells from your hip: Cocktail of cells could halt damage caused by ...

'No one knows if stem cells, chondrocytes, or the combination is best,' says Professor James Richardson a consultant orthopaedic surgeon who is ..

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Stem Cell News - March 7, 2015



UB cardiologist studying use of stem cells to fix the heart
Some researchers hypothesize that these stem cells are the source of new cardiac muscle cells. They normally divide slowly, but when selectively ...
 
Embryonic Stem Cells Give Hope to Osteoarthritis
The embryonic stem cells have huge capacity to proliferate and can be manipulated to form almost any type of mature cell; offering the possibility of ...
 
Lung cancer stem cell therapy to be trialled in UK
The treatment uses stem cells taken from bone marrow that have been genetically modified to find and destroy cancer cells. If successful, the treatment ...
 
Girl, 8, meets European stem cell donor who helped her beat cancer
Eule, who paid for his trip to America for the reunion out of pocket, said he almost cried when he was told he could donate stem cells to a little girl.
 
Canadian Blood Services seeks ethnically diverse stem cell donors
The Canadian Blood Services wants more Canadians to sign up as potential stem cells donors to diversify the registry. Canada's stem cell registry is ...
 
'Stem cell' test could identify most aggressive breast cancers, say researchers from Cardiff University
They found that breast cancers with a similar pattern of gene activity to that of adult stem cells had a high chance of spreading to other parts of the ...
 
Clinical Trial is Testing Stem Cells in Scleroderma
Richard Burt, MD, of Northwestern University is looking to harness the power of autologous, patient-derived stem cells for the treatment of systemic ...
 
Stem Cells from Wisdom Teeth Can Be Transformed into Corneal Cells
Experiments conducted by lead author Fatima Syed-Picard, Ph.D., also of Pitt's Department of Ophthalmology, and the team showed that stem cells of ...
 
Possible HIV cure OK'd for testing
HIV patients will be given genetically modified stem cells in an attempt to effectively cure them of the infection, the first time this experimental therapy ...
 
New advance 'could allow cartilage to be created from stem cells'
The production of cartilage formed from embryonic stem cells has moved a step closer following a new discovery at the University of Manchester.
 
 
Behind the scenes of the world's first commercial stem-cell therapy
New corneal cells are generated from a niche of stem cells in the limbus, an area between the cornea and the white of the eye. But if the limbus is ...
 
Stem Cells Treated with Solifenacin Boost Myelin Production
A scientist at the University of Buffalo used an FDA-approved drug and human stem cells to increase the production of myelin in a myelin-deficient ...
 
A New Stem Cell Advance
Type of hypothalamic neurons created from stem cells. For the first time, researchers have access to these live human neuron types that are involved ...
 
AAUW members learn about stem cell science
Dr. Halliwell explained that stem cells can self-renew and are able to differentiate into any of the 220 different types of cells in the human body.