Rush University Medical Center is conducting the nation’s first clinical study of an innovative stem cell drug, Cartistem, to repair knee cartilage damaged by aging, trauma or degenerative diseases such as osteoarthritis. Cartistem is manufactured from mesenchymal stem cells derived from allogeneic (donor) umbilical cord blood. Umbilical cord blood is a readily accessible source of … Continue reading
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Watch More News Videos at ABC | Technology News | Celebrity News I left my heart in Minnesota — a tiny, pulsing piece of it, anyway. The folks at the Mayo Clinic call it “Lil’ Bill” and it lives in a comfortable Petri dish on a climate-controlled shelf deep in … Continue reading
A scientist named Dr. Rongxiang Xu has, according to the newspaper The Australian, sued the Nobel Prize Committee for giving the award to Yamanaka and Gurdon and not him. Xu is quoted in the article that he “discovered ‘regenerative cells’ in 1984. The suit filed in S. California, alleges libel and unfair competition. The Australian goes … Continue reading
Doctors have successfully used a disabled version of HIV to modify a 7-year-old leukemia patient’s white blood cells to attack her cancer. The breakthrough procedure could potentially replace bone marrow transplant as a leukemia treatment. Emma Whitehead was selected as a patient for the experimental technique after two years of battling with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, … Continue reading
The Future is Now: How Adult Stem Cell Treatment is Transforming Medicine The field of stem cell research has quickly reached a magnitude that it continues to elude the understanding of all but the most advanced of the scientific community. Many people are unaware that the first successful stem cell transplant occurred more … Continue reading
Great inroads have been made in recent years into an understanding of the accelerated aging condition called Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, or progeria. Despite its extreme rarity – there are less than a hundred sufferers known worldwide – the condition is of great interest to aging researchers, and this is because of what progeria might teach us … Continue reading
Britain’s gene therapy industry has taken a step forward with a medicine that may help cure brain cancer moving closer to receiving regulatory approval. Ark Therapeutics, maker of Cerepro – which helps to stop cancer returning to the brain after a tumour is removed through an operation – yesterday said it had successfully manufactured a … Continue reading
Probing the salamander genome reveals clues to its remarkable ability to regrow damaged limbs and organs. In its own way, the axolotl salamander is a mighty beast. Chop off its leg, and the gilled creature will grow a new one. Freeze part of its heart, and the organ will form anew. Carve out half … Continue reading