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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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Friday, January 29, 2016

Stem Cell News - January 29, 2016

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Lara Casalotti needs a stem-cell transplant

Thousands sign up to donate stem cells thanks to UCLH patient Lara Casalotti
One of UCLH's young leukaemia patients has encouraged more than 10000 people to sign up as stem cell donors since being diagnosed last ...
 
Adult stem cells Hair stem cells born without a home
Adult stem cells reside in specific microenvironments in adult tissues, known as niches, which regulate their function and fate, but how adult stem cells ...
Obokata, Author of Retracted Stem-Cell Papers, Tells Her Side in Book
Haruko Obokata, the Japanese scientist who was accused of research fraud over a purported new method to create stem cells, published a book ...
Carly Fiorina benefited from company using aborted fetal stem cells
Fiorina has been openly supportive of vaccines derived from fetal stem cells at least since her California Senate run in 2010. According to the Los ...
DOH approves first gov't hospital for stem cell services
"Please be informed the DOH of any person/s or institution/s administering stem cells without accreditation or using stem cells for other indications not ...
Carnitine before pregnancy may lower autism risk
“It's very difficult to study neural stem cells in their complex natural environment,” says Xie. “But now we have a technology that makes such studies ...
Stem cell research offers explanation for developmental disease
Stem cells that experience a delay during cell division produce fewer stem cells and neurons that die prematurely, which could help explain the ...
Precision Medicine: Genetic Repair of Retinitis Pigmentosa in Patient-Derived Stem Cells
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) generated from patient fibroblasts could potentially be used as a source of autologous cells for transplantation ...
Hacking the programs of cancer stem cells
Such cancer stem cells can migrate to other tissues and become fatal metastases. To fully cure a patient's cancer, it is crucial to find and eliminate all ...
BioEden is Huddersfield's very own tooth fairy
Huddersfield-based medical firm BioEden stores and uses stem cells taken from our children's teeth to cure all kinds of diseases they may later ...
Natural killers in the brain's nursery
Natural killer cells are retained specifically in the subventricular zone in chronic disease, killing stem cells and promoting pathology.
Myeloma Rocket Scientist: Happy Birthday, Dear Immune System
The stem cells do not attack the disease itself. Rather, they prevent the “high-dose” chemotherapy that is administered beforehand from achieving a ...
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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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Saturday, January 16, 2016

Stem Cell News - January 16, 2016


Developing follicle cells

Generating embryos from stem cells
Scientists at Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) have developed a method to generate mouse embryos from stem cells without the need to ...
Novel Therapies Likely to Change Role of Stem Cell Transplants in Blood Cancers
Total costs when patients receive their own stem cells can reach $100,000.2 Total costs when patients receive stem cells from others can reach ...
Sylvester stem-cell patients celebrate their transformed lives
Just before the patient's blood is replaced, he or she is blasted with chemotherapy to reduce their auto-immune system to rubble so the stem cells can ...
Signals that make early stem cells identified
The researchers traced the cell divisions that occur as hair follicles form in mice to determine where stem cells first emerge. Above, developing hair ...
Donations needed for stem cells to restore Troy's sight
In that short time Troy's GoFundMe page received more than $700 in donations, taking the total to $1475. He needs $26,908 for the operation. In 2011 ...
With Eyes on the Future, Justin Trudeau Announces International Hub for Stem Cell Therapy
"One very important way to do this is by supporting innovative approaches to regenerative medicine through greater collaboration, using stem cells, ...
UK researcher details proposal for CRISPR editing of human embryos
As a pilot project, Niakan plans to knock out OCT4, a gene that is turned on in embryonic stem cells in both humans and mice. Researchers think that ...
Scientists link allergies to hyperactive immune cells in babies' cord blood
... a co-author of the study from the University of Melbourne, said there was a lot of interest in cord blood because it provided a rich source of stem cells ...
Sean's pride at stem cell donation
“Before I was due to go over a nurse visited my house to give me GCSF Injections which cause the bone marrow to produce more stem cells.
Scientists Create Human-Animal Hybrids To Address Shortage Of Hearts, Livers And Lungs For ...
Some research centers in the United States have implanted human stem cells into animal embryos in hopes of producing enough organs for ...
Penn State scientists working new drug target could help treat Rett Syndrome
Muotri said after he and his lab transformed the skin cells into stem cells and then derived them into neurons, he sent the neurons from the patient with ...
Links between coagulation, inflammation, regeneration, and fibrosis in kidney pathology
For example, insufficient reconstitution of renal epithelial cells is associated with ..... Epithelial stem cells and implications for wound repair. Semin Cell ...
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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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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.
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