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

Telegraph.co.uk

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

Your EDM

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

Gizmodo

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

UC Santa Cruz

The fellowship from the prestigious ASH Scholar Award program will support Krietsch's research on blood stem cells. The ASH Scholar Award ...

Stem Cell News - March 8, 2015

Experimental Lung Cancer Therapy Trial For UK

Eagle Radio

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

GenomeWeb

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

The Cancer Letter Publications

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

The Japan News

... 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 ..