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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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Sunday, March 1, 2015

Stem Cell News - March 1, 2015


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, ...

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 ...

Mouse embryos given a human regulator gene grow bigger brains -- science roundup (photos ... The human HARE5 mouse embryos also experienced faster proliferation of neural progenitor cells. (In brain development, stem cells yield progenitor ...

Scientists at San Diego Zoo Safari Park trying to save endangered species ... Zoo Safari Park are trying to save some of the endangered species using an advanced technology that involves turning skin cells into stem cells and ...

'Miracle' stem cell therapy reverses multiple sclerosis In the new treatment, specialists use a high dose of chemotherapy to knock out the immune system before rebuilding it with stem cells taken from the ...

Stem cells: A weapon for Huntington's disease? Mike is signed up to receive the stem cells. He's excited about the possibilities, especially for his kids. They each have a 50/50 chance of inheriting ...

Ligaments and tendons of the future And these pig tissues may be preloaded with stem cells and growth factors from the injured patient. Fixing broken people with the goal of making them ...

Treating mid-stage arthritis for happier life during old age Stem cell treatment uses stem cells to promote recovery to normal cartilage. High tibial osteotomy is usually performed on relatively younger arthritis ...

Gene Mutations As We Grow Old Put Us At Risk Of Leukemia? "Leukemia results from the gradual accumulation of DNA mutations in blood stem cells, in a process that can take decades," said McKerrell. Mutations ...

A way to measure the effectiveness of blood cancer drug However, the existence of treatment-resistant cancer stem cells – cells that are able to repeatedly renew the leukaemia cell population – is one way by ...

Now, same-sex couples can make babies LONDON (TIP): In a breakthrough, researchers led by an Indian-origin scientist, have shown that stem cells from the skin of two adults of the same sex ...

Share “Business of Health: Confusing the hope and...” Over two days, an anesthesiologist administered stem cells — cells that can form other types of cells in the body — from third-party donors to Howe.

Cancer survivor shares story at Pottsville Area's Mini-THON Her brother, Robert, donated stem cells for her treatment. “Cancer tried to shake me down, but the Four Diamonds Fund helped to build me back up.

Hockey legend's recovery highlights stem-cell advances Eight hours after Mr. Howe received what is called a lumbar puncture, where stem cells were injected in the spinal fluid of his lower back by an ...
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