Regenerative medicine: New tool for transplanting stem cellsScience Daily (press release)16, 2013 — Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues in Belgium have developed a specialized catheter for transplanting stem cells into the beating heart. The novel device includes a curved needle and graded openings along the needle shaft, allowing for … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Medical DailyStem cell spleens and lungs no doubt serve a medically scientific purpose, but in terms of fulfilling a demand, kidneys have few rivals. In the U.S. alone, chronic kidney disease affects roughly 20 million people — or 10 percent of the population over … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Channel News AsiaA team of experts from Singapore’s National University Hospital (NUH) has made a clinical breakthrough in their work on foetal stem cell treatment, after successfully treating two girls with brittle bone disease. PHOTOS; VIDEOS. Illustration photo … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Dolomite to Collaborate on EU-funded Microfluidics Tech for Stem CellsGenomeWebNEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – UK-based microfluidics developer Dolomite said today that it will collaborate with the Danish firms Bioneer and OptoRobotix in a European Union-funded effort to develop a new stem cell handling device. The consortium …Dolomite collaborates with European technology leaders to develop cutting … Continue reading
Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. : Stem Cell Therapeutics appoints Dr. Robert L …4-traders (press release)(TSX-V: SSS; OTCQX: SCTPF), an immuno-oncology company developing cancer stem cell– related therapeutics, today announced that industry veteran Dr. Robert L. Kirkman has been appointed to the Company’s Board of Directors. Dr. Kirkman has broad …Stem Cell Therapeutics Appoints Dr. Robert … Continue reading
New hope for stem cells, regenerative medicine emerges from the labPhys.Org“We have induced somatic cells within the liver of adult mice to transiently behave as pluripotent stem cells,” said Dr. Kostas Kostarelos, the lab’s principal investigator, “This was done by transfer of four specific genes, previously described by the … and more …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Science CodexAs Dr. Kostarelos’s article states, “One of the central dogmas of this emerging field is that in vivo implantation of [these stem] cells will lead to their uncontrolled differentiation and the formation of a tumor-like mass.” Dr. Kostarelos and his … and more …read more &nbs… Continue reading
New hope for stem cells, regenerative medicine emerges from the labEurekAlert (press release)Today, December 17, JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, has published a novel technique that could resolve a snag in stem cell research for application in regenerative medicine—a strategy for reprograming cells in vivo to act like stem cells … and more …read … Continue reading