Florida Doctor Claims Controversial Stem Cell Treatment May Be Blindness Cure – Medical Daily
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Florida Doctor Claims Controversial Stem Cell Treatment May Be Blindness Cure
Medical Daily Dr. Jeffrey Weiss, from Margate, Fla., says he’s restored sight for more than 100 people by injecting their eyes with stem cells derived from their bone marrow, The Baltimore Sun reported. The use of stem cells to treat vision loss isn’t a novel idea … |
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Hair-Raising Stem Cell Find: Overactive Follicles, Sparser Pates
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News Many adult stem cells seem to pace themselves as though they need to conserve their regenerative powers for the long haul. But whether these stem cells really need to alternate between periods of busyness and rest, or quiescence, remains an unsettled … New research clarifies how stem cells get activated to produce new hairMedical Xpress |
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High-fat diet may raise cancer risk by changing gut stem cells
Medical News Today The team discovered that feeding mice on a high-fat diet resulted in a boom in their intestine’s production of stem cells. And it also had an effect on some other cells – it caused them to become more like stem cells and make them more likely to form … Stem cells: Dietary fat promotes intestinal dysregulationNature.com High-Fat Diet Linked to Intestinal Stem Cell Changes, Increased Risk for CancerNewswise (press release) Fatty foods cause ‘boom in cells which can turn into cancerous tumours’Daily Mail |
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Cynata Therapeutics and Japan’s Regience K.K. in stem cell alliance
Proactive Investors Australia The Cymerus stem cell technology provides a source of MSCs that is independent of donor limitations and provides a potential “off-the-shelf” stem cell platform for therapeutic product use, with a pharmaceutical business model and economies of scale. Cynata Enters Agreement for Strategic Alliance in Japanirasia.com (press release) |