Asian Scientist Magazine2, 2014) – An international team of researchers from Sweden, Singapore and Taiwan have treated two ‘brittle-bone babies’ by injecting bone-forming stem cells into them while they were still in the womb. The longitudinal results of the treatment are … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Physical cues help mature cells revert into embryonic-like stem cellsYottaFireBerkeley — Bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that physical cues can replace certain chemicals when nudging mature cells back to a pluripotent stage, capable of becoming any cell type in the body. The researchers grew … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Stem cells to cure Sickle cellWWSB ABC 7We can’t transplant you,’” Shalini Shenoy, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Director, Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant Program, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, told Ivanhoe. Dr. Shalini Shenoy is studying a … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Brain Controlled Exoskeletons, Stem Cell Regeneration, Transgenic Monkeys …Next Big FutureSeveral research groups, including a team led by geneticist Erika Sasaki and stem–cell biologist Hideyuki Okano at Keio University in Tokyo, hope to create transgenic primates with immune-system deficiencies or brain disorders. This could raise ethical … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
The Press, YorkA PARKINSON’S Disease sufferer from York is to travel to Kiev for pioneering stem cell treatment, in a last-ditch bid to tackle his worsening condition. James DeLittle, 49, hopes the two-day treatment in the Ukrainian capital will lessen his symptoms … and more …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Adult stem cells help build human blood vessels in engineered tissuesYottaFireResearchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have identified a protein expressed by human bone marrow stem cells that guides and stimulates the formation of blood vessels. Their findings, which could help improve the vascularization of … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Stem cell treatment to be used in premiere in JapanThe Tokyo TimesJapan will use for the first time a stem cell treatment owned by Mesoblast Pharmaceutical. The product will be launched on the market by JCR Pharmaceutical, a local partner. The treatment will be used for the so-called graft versus host disease (GVHD), … …read … Continue reading
Scientific AmericanInstitute of Molecular Cardiology (IMC) established in 2001 at the University of Louisville has demonstrated from Clinical Phase I Study of Cardiac Stem Cells (SCIPIO), for the first time in the world, that adult cardiac stem cells taken from the heart …Adult stem cells help build human blood vessels in engineered tissuesYottaFire all 2 … Continue reading