Options for dry AMD management include genetics, stem cell therapy …HealioPHILADELPHIA — New discoveries promise to drive developments in the diagnosis and treatment of dry age-related macular degeneration, a speaker said here. Jason Slakter, MD, described potential diagnostic and treatment methods at Macula 2014. …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Science Daily (press release)13, 2014 — While the ability of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to become any type of mature cell, from neuron to heart to skin and bone, is indisputably crucial to human development, no less important is the mechanism needed to maintain hESCs in …Revving the Stem Cell EngineGenetic Engineering News all … Continue reading
BIOE THER0 : BioRestorative Therapies’ Brown Fat Stem Cells Research …4-traders (press release)BioRestorative Therapies, Inc. (“BRT” or the “Company”) (OTCBB: BRTX), a life sciences company focused on adult stem cell-based therapies for various personal medical applications, today announced that a preclinical study that is part of its ThermoStem … and more …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Revving the Stem Cell EngineGenetic Engineering NewsLike a car idling, not moving in any direction but ready to roll, stem cells may remain in their undifferentiated state, rumblingly pluripotent, and ready to become any type of mature cell. Pluripotent stem cells appear to have their engines tuned via …Keeping stem cells pluripotentScience Daily (press release) … Continue reading
University of Michigan Health System News (press release)ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Breast cancer stem cells exist in two different states and each state plays a role in how cancer spreads, according to an international collaboration of researchers. Their finding sheds new light on the process that makes cancer a … and more …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Rising Stars & ProvocateursOZYBecause Masayo Takahashi may bring us much closer to being able to grow a new heart or kidney — custom-made for each patient — if her trial of a new stem cell therapy succeeds. It’s hard not to be struck by Masayo Takahashi’s confidence — from her … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
No evidence to support stem cell therapy for pediatric optic nerve hypoplasiaYottaFireA study performed at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles found no evidence that stem cell therapy improves vision for children with optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH). Their results are reported in the Journal of the American Association for Pediatric … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Desperate parents make heart-breaking YouTube appeal to find stem cell donor …Mirror.co.ukThe parents of a one-year-old girl dying from an extremely rare form of leukaemia have made a desperate global appeal to find her a stem cell donor. Margot Martini was rushed to Great Ormond Street Hospital aged just 14 months last October. She needed … Continue reading