Mid-DayAishwarya said she had opted for banking her daughter’s stem cells. “I was aware about stem cell banking as a development probably out of my interest in the medical field as most of my friends are doctors. I have been aware of this way before I got …Ash-Abhi banks Aaradhya’s stem cellBollywood MantraVIDEOS: Aishwarya Rai, … Continue reading
NDTV… lent her name to the cause of stem cell preservation by Life Cell, a biotechnology company. The whole process of banking a baby’s stem cell has been made a lot cheaper by the company and Aishwarya urges family and friends to gift it to expecting …Mommy Ash suits up to unveil stem cell campaignDaily … Continue reading
Lifesite (blog)A few years back when actor Michael J. Fox made a number of ill-informed comments about the “promise” of embryonic stem cells, it was impossible not to cut him some slack. He suffers from Parkinson’s disease and it was only human nature on his part to … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
FierceDrugDeliveryResearchers at several Boston-based institutions have developed a way to use stem cells to deliver an anti-inflammatory drug, repurposing the cells’ genetic material to act as a sort of “drug factory” at the inflamed spot. The team of scientists from …Stem Cells Delivered by Patch Effective in Repairing Cardiac Damage Weeks …PR Web (press release)Harvard … Continue reading
Harvard Stem Cell Institute publishes first clinical trial resultsMedical XpressCorey Cutler, M.D., M.P.H., and Leonard Zon, M.D., of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, headed the effort to take a discovery in zebra fish from the fish tank to the clinic, in the Boston Children’s Hospital zebra fish facility. Credit: B. D. Colen … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
EurekAlert (press release)Starting with a discovery in zebrafish in 2007, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers have published initial results of a Phase Ib human clinical trial of a therapeutic that has the potential to improve the success of blood stem cell …Generating Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell BanksScience Daily (press release)Stem cell ‘drug factories’ … Continue reading
Times of IndiaAishwarya said she had opted for banking her daughter’s stem cells. “I was aware about stem cell banking as a development probably out of my interest in the medical field as most of my friends are doctors. I have been aware of this way before I got …Ash-Abhi banks Aaradhya’s stem cellBollywood MantraAishwarya … Continue reading
Blood vessel cells can repair, regenerate organs, say Weill Cornell scientistsEurekAlert (press release)In studies appearing in recent issues of Stem Cell Journal and Developmental Cell, the researchers show that endothelial cells — the cells that make up the structure of blood vessels — are powerful biological machines that drive regeneration in organ … and more … Continue reading