Showing posts with label stem cells. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stem cells. Show all posts

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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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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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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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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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, 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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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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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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