Medical XpressHuman neural stem cells restore cognitive functions impaired by chemotherapyMedical XpressIn preclinical studies using rodents, they found that stem cells transplanted one week after the completion of a series of chemotherapy sessions res… Continue reading
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Former rival scientists team up to use stem cells to mend broken hearts
International Business Times UK Scientists are using stem cells to develop new kinds of muscle tissues which can beat in time with a patient’s damaged heart. One of the major problems with current heart surgery is that muscle tissue grafted into a heart does not always beat in time … Tests begin on ‘traffic light pacemaker’ that could revolutionise heart treatmentThe Independent The Science of Mending Broken HeartsHuffington Post UK |
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Former rival scientists team up to use stem cells to mend broken hearts
International Business Times UK Scientists are using stem cells to develop new kinds of muscle tissues which can beat in time with a patient’s damaged heart. One of the major problems with current heart surgery is that muscle tissue grafted into a heart does not always beat in time … Tests begin on ‘traffic light pacemaker’ that could revolutionise heart treatmentThe Independent The Science of Mending Broken HeartsHuffington Post UK |
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A Stem Cell Cure for Bubble Baby Disease (SCID)
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies On November 18th, 2014, a UCLA research team led by Donald Kohn, M.D., announced a breakthrough gene therapy and stem cell cure for “bubble baby” disease, or severe combined immunodefiency (SCID). Babies born with SCID lack an immune system … |
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Stem Cell Transplants May Work Better than Existing MS Drug
Drug Discovery & Development Stem cell transplants may be more effective than the drug mitoxantrone for people with severe cases of multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a new study published in the online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. More Promising Data on Stem Cell Transplant for MSMedscape |
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Fund Setup For Pine Grove Man Seeking Stem Cell COPD Treatment
Greeneville Sun William F. “Bill” Laws, of the Pine Grove community on the Horton Highway, is going to the Lung Institute in Franklin, near Nashville, March 15 to undergo stem cell therapy for COPD, a disease of the lungs. He has had the condition for more than 15 … |
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More Promising Data on Stem Cell Transplant for MS
Medscape Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant (AHSCT) proved “unequivocally” superior to mitoxantrone in reducing imaging evidence of disease activity in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) refractory to conventional therapy in a phase 2 randomized … |