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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Stem Cell News - January 31, 2016

Stem Cell Technology

Blindness causing gene corrected by CRISPR in stem cells
Blindness causing gene corrected by CRISPR in stem cells ... the first time a defective gene has been successfully fixed in patient-derived stem cells, ...
Venter expands attempt to fight disease, increase lifespan
La Jolla geneticist J. Craig Venter has acquired a company that banks cord blood, giving him access to stem cells that are part of his expanding effort ...
Life in the stem cell lab
Stem cells are so demanding to grow that they often require feeding every day, meaning that I had no choice but to come in on my supposed weekend ...
Pioneering technique from Newcastle University to use stem cells and seaweed to heal wounds
A pioneering team of North East medics have taken the unprecedented step of encasing stem cells in seaweed to treat wounds. It is hoped the ...
Newcastle University students to hold stem cell donor registration event for Match4Lara campaign
Blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan works to persuade people aged 16-30 to give samples of their spit, to determine whether their stem cells can be ...
Burgers Served Straight from the Petri Dish
“Technically, any species with stem cells in muscles can be used to recreate meat. We've worked on pork, others are working on fish and chicken but ...
Scots student so grateful to mystery man who came to her aid in her fight against leukaemia
If a potential donor is a match, they can donate by PBSC (peripheral blood stem cell collection), which is like blood as scientists can harvest stem cells ...
Animal Studies Suggest Novel Approach to Treating Type 1 Diabetes
In a second study, Vegas and colleagues transplanted human embryonic stem cells (SC-beta cells) into an immunocompetent animal.
Canada's stem cell research needs 'big investment' to move forward, experts say
... the existence of stem cells at the Toronto-based Ontario Cancer Institute. ... with hopes that the regenerative capacity of stem cells could be used to ...
After an awkward flip-flop, the U defends fetal tissue research
One study uses fetal stem cells to create human immune systems in mice to test HIV therapies. Another seeks clues to genetic activity during fetal ...
Origins, Murad and Skincere: The best 8 new skincare products
The science of stem cells, which are key to regeneration, is being developed all the time in healthcare and the same goes for anti-ageing skincare.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Stem Cell News - January 27, 2016

Stem Cell Research

Parkinson's Might Someday Be Treatable via Stem Cell Therapy, But Not Yet
Pluripotent refers to the ability of stem cells to turn into numerous different ... The use of autologous stem cells (from the host's own body) could be an ...
Third-annual Vail Symposium stem cell event focuses on emerging therapies
In partnership with the University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus, “Stem Cells: Exploring the Research Perspective” features a panel of three ...
Columbia research shows electrical stimulation alone can aid growing heart cells
To test this approach, the researchers placed cardiomyocytes derived from both embryonic and pluripotent stem cells in a bioreactor, which functioned ...
Stem cell therapy for animals available in Meridian
"Stem cells are designed to repair the body," Adams said. "They repair all tissues whether it be heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, muscle, tendon or cartilage.
Stem cell research drives Thorn to seek LSE backing
Mr Kaye believes the potential of stem cell research is endless. “We can repair tendons, torn ... Kidney grown from stem cells by Australian scientists
11 Body Parts Grown in the Lab
A team of Australian scientists grew a minikidney, differentiating stem cells to form an organ with the three distinct types of kidney cells for the first time.
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Monday, January 25, 2016

Stem Cell News - January 25, 2016

Human Ear grown on Rat

Adult Human Ear Grown on a Rat
To grow the ear, the team induced pluripotent stem cells to grow into ear cartilage. Those cells were then placed into a kind of biological tubing ...
Stem Cell Breakthrough Could Put an End to Daily Insulin Injections for Diabetics
Back in 2014, the same group used stem cells to create insulin-producing beta cells in large quantities. Now, they've taken those mass-produced cells ...
Reverse chimerism enables graft acceptance
Induction of reverse chimerism in renal allografts by mobilizing host stem cells from the bone marrow enables long-term graft acceptance in animal ...
The next IVF revolution: Older women more likely to have babies with new technique set to trial in ...
... out the mitochondria “power packs” from immature stem cells found in the ovary and injecting them into the mature egg cells or oocytes used in IVF.
Long-term glycemic control using polymer-encapsulated human stem cell–derived beta cells in ...
The latter concern may be addressed by recently described glucose-responsive mature beta cells that are derived from human embryonic stem cells ...
Bone Marrow vs PBSCs: Preference of Stem Cell Source for Bone Marrow Failure Varies Worldwide
Sources of stem cells used to treat bone marrow failure vary around the world, with bone marrow harvest more commonly used in areas with more ...
Adult stem cells reverse multiple sclerosis in UK trial
Stem cells are then harvested and re-infused into the patient to 'reboot' their immune system. Within two weeks, new red and white blood cells start to ...
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Sunday, January 24, 2016

Stem Cell News - January 24, 2016


Embryonic Stem Cell

Match4Lara campaign hits Stanford campus
The process aims to wipe out the patient's own blood system along with their disease, before repopulating the system with blood stem cells coming ...
Tissue regeneration Guiding fibres
On muscle injury, resident stem cells and their descendant myogenic progenitor cells orchestrate a regenerative response. Yet how muscle stem and ...
Focus on stem cells at Cornwall's Science on Tap
Campbell's research investigates whether and how problems with our stem cells could lay the foundation for people to develop illnesses such as ...
Fujifilm hopes Madison company's cells will help it change the world
To make its cells — known as iPS, or induced pluripotent stem cells — CDI starts with a small sample of blood or skin. Its scientists, in essence, rewind ...
Stem cell research drives Thorn to seek LSE backing
A human stem cell as seen through light microscope. Stem cells offer the possibility of a renewable source of replacement cells and tissues ...
Researchers coax human stem cells to form complex tissues
Growing organs on demand, using stem cells derived from patients themselves, could eliminate the lengthy wait that people in need of a transplant are ...
Japanese researchers create human ear cartilage from iPS cells
The researchers at the two state-run universities cultured human induced pluripotent stem cells into cartilage cells, which were then made into ...
'Spit drive' to find stem cell match for woman with cancer
The search for life-saving stem cells for a leukaemia sufferer that won support from the Prime Minister will begin later with a "spit drive" to find a match.
How Irv Weissman learned to figure things out
As a Stanford faculty member, he was the first to identify and isolate human blood-forming stem cells responsible for the immune system, research that ...
Exeter mum appeals for bone marrow donor
Donating stem cells for nine out of 10 people is as quick and easy process similar to giving blood called peripheral blood stem cell collection.
New cartilage tissue grown from cow knee joints cells
For this, stem cells could be grown to provide unlimit d amount of material for tissue engineering. Articular cartilage is tissue that is found on all the ...
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Friday, January 22, 2016

Stem Cell News - January 22, 2016


Umbilical Cord Stem Cells

Stem cells Autophagy rescues muscle ageing
Mammalian muscle regeneration relies on the presence of muscle stem cells, known as satellite cells. The number and functionality of these cells ...
Stem cell therapy for animals available in Meridian
"Stem cells are designed to repair the body," Adams said. "They repair all tissues whether it be heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, muscle, tendon or cartilage.
Science Center to Host 'Super Cells' Exhibit
“Super Cells: The Power of Stem Cells” will show visitors how each of us is the result of a handful of tiny stem cells that multiplied to produce the 200 ...
Jordanian Researchers Working on Stem Cell Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes
Researchers in Amman, Jordan are being recognized for cutting edge work that could cure diabetes by transplanting a patient's own stem cells into ...
Electrically-trained muscle cells get damaged hearts pumping
Repairing damaged hearts with healthy cells derived from stem cells is a promising approach to tackling cardiovascular disease, but it does have its ...
Stem Cell Transplant: Stop Gray Hair With New Technique
During an experiment involving adipose-derived autologous mesenchymal stem cells, researchers accidentally discovered that it they can help ...
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Sunday, January 17, 2016

Stem Cell News - January 17, 2016

Alzheimer's researcher Huaxi Xu

Alzheimer's advances on the horizon
Called induced pluripotent stem cells, they are typically grown from skin cells. Cultured in the lab, they provide a "disease in a dish" model that allows ...
California researcher wants to fight obesity with fat cells
Within the past few years, scientists have experimented with multiple possibilities, from tinkering with certain enzymes, hormones and stem cells to ...
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Sunday, January 10, 2016

Stem Cell News - January 10, 2016


Stem cell donor

Lockerbie man undergoes life-saving stem cell donation in memory of cousin
A Lockerbie man underwent a lengthy medical procedure to save the life of a stranger. Daniel Slattery this week donated stem cells in memory of his ...
The stem cell debate: Should necessity trump ethics?
After a lifetime of work in trying to understand the mechanisms involved in how adult cells are reprogrammed by egg cells to become stem cells and ...
Career options in stem cell research
Let us first understand why stem cell therapy or regenerative therapies are often dubbed as the “Future of Modern Medicine.” Stem cells are found in ...
Local company invents stem cell breakthrough
That could be the future of medicine being invented in Cleveland. Athersys invented a therapy called MultiStem. The stem cells come from adult bone ...
Reprogrammed Skin Cells Save Heart After Trauma
For a typical cell therapy, heart cells are made from different stem cells, but the quality of the heart cells will vary. In particular, the maturation of the ...
Biotech Company Offers Fitness and Beauty-Focused Genetic Tests
Those who donate also have an option to pay for access to their stem cells in the future. For $99 a month, users can keep an insurance policy on their ...
Skin cells can heal injured hearts
One reason for the engraftment problem is the quality of the heart cells. For a typical cell therapy, heart cells are made from different stem cells, but the ...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Stem Cell News - March 3, 2015

Save a life by giving your blood stem cells
HAVING the same tissue-type as another person means that you could help save their life by donating some of your blood stem cells to help cure a ..
Scientists move closer to creating cartilage from stem cells
(Nanowerk News) Scientists have succeeded in producing cartilage formed from embryonic stem cells that could in future be used to treat the painful ..
A new stem cell advance
In his self-patterning approach, Merkle put 5,000 stem cells in a dish amid an ... “And our ability to study them using these stem cells is fundamentally ...
Sarnia Anti-Aging Clinic plans to use adult stem cells to treat arthritis
Cardiologist Dr. Khalid Al-Saddon stands with one of the pieces of equipment at his soon-to-open Sarnia Anti-Aging Clinic. 
The ins and outs of bone marrow transplantation
All your blood cells are made by blood stem cells, which live primarily in the spongy center of your big bones. In the years before you got leukemia, ...
'Miraculous' stem cell treatment may reverse symptoms of multiple sclerosis
Stem cells are viewed on a computer screen at the University of Connecticut`s (UConn) Stem Cell Institute at the UConn Health Center on August 27, ...
'Miracle' stem cell treatment reboots immune system in MS
It used high doses of chemotherapy to “knock out” the existing faulty cells of the immune system, before rebuilding it using stem cells taken from the ...
  
Genetic Mutations Associated With Leukemia Are Almost Inevitable With Age
"Leukemia results from the gradual accumulation of DNA mutations in blood stem cells, in a process that can take decades," says Dr. Thomas ...
Searching for a match: York Region students swabbing in young girl's memory
Mark has advocated tirelessly for “One Match”, a program through the Canadian Blood Services that connects people who are sick with stem cells.
The Running Doc on CC Sabathia's microfracture surgery
Platelets send out a signal in the body for stem cells to come to the area and rejuvenate and rebuild cartilage. This process is similar to PRP ...
Healthcare Outcomes Improve When Technology Imitates Nature
The goal is to extract the mechanics of stem cell differentiation, leading to more beneficial stem cell therapies. Stem cells start as sort of a “blank slate,” ...
A US Cloning Pioneer's Startling New Partnerships
... mature oocyte allow a 'more normal' reprogramming of somatic cells to stem cells compared to the classic transcription factor-based reprogramming ...
San Diego Zoo Gets Funding To Help Save Northern White Rhinos
Researchers hope to convert some of the cells stored in the Frozen Zoo to stem cells. These could then be developed into sperm and eggs. Ultimately ...
Lubbock Residents, Armed With T-Shirts, Helping Boy's Battle Against Cancer
For the next week, Doctors will be harvesting his stem cells, which will be stored and later given back to him in a month-long procedure later this year.
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