Showing posts with label stem cell cures. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Stem Cell News - January 20, 2016


Stem cells may cure paralysis

Stem cell treatment could help paralyzed patients move
Paralyzed from the neck down, the 20-year-old Naples, Fla., man has enrolled in the first clinical trial testing the ability of stem cells to repair spinal ...

Stem cells get patients with MS walking
The treatment uses chemotherapy to destroy the patient's immune system, which is rebuilt using stem cells harvested earlier from the patient's blood in ...
Utah Stem Cells: Stem Cell Joint Regeneration
Salt Lake City — (KUTV) New methods are relieving pain for many people without surgery or total hip or knee replacement. Dr. William Cimikoski ...
Stem Cell Therapy for Pets
The natural process of using stem cells help speed up haling time and reduce inflammation, improving the general well being of pets, giving them a ...
New program takes stem out of stem cells
The best known example was the 2006 reprogramming of mature mouse cells into immature stem cells — a Nobel prizewinning feat that ultimately ...
Stem Cells Spin receives European patent
Says receives European patent for its invention 'Cell homogenate from stem cells derived from growing deer antlers, a method of obtaining it and its ...
Adult Stem Cell Potential Varies Person to Person, Not Organ to Organ
Adult stem cells have been suspected of retaining developmental preferences, tendencies to revert to type, whereby adult stem cells originally derived ...
'Cure' for MS as patients condition 'permanently' reversed
“I started seeing changes within days of the stem cells being put in. I walked out of the hospital. I walked into my house and hugged Isla. I cried and ...
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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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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Stem Cell News - January 12, 2016


Stem cells can stimulate the body's own regeneration

ReNeuron bags £2.1m grant from Innovate UK for stem cell treatment
ReNeuron has developed special stem cells, called CTX cells, which release large amounts of exosomes when grown in the laboratory. It is now ...
New Class of Sound Wave Could Revolutionize Stem Cell Treatment
But our work also opens up the possibility of using stem cells more efficiently for treating lung disease, enabling us to nebulise stem cells straight into a ...
Researchers Can Now Grow Fallopian Tubes in the Lab
The research team, led by Thomas F. Meyer, did so by acquiring stem cells from the epithelial cells of donors, and then cultivating them under special ...
Stem cell researcher receives American Society of Hematology Scholar Award
The fellowship from the prestigious ASH Scholar Award program will support Krietsch's research on blood stem cells. The ASH Scholar Award ...
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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.
  
Is there a cure for cancer sitting at the back of the medicine cabinet already?
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 ..
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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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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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