Donor stem cells taken from adult bone marrow (mesenchymal stem cells or MSCs) were found to be just as effective in treating diseased hearts as injecting patients with their own stem cells. These were the findings of a new study presented at a meeting in the US. The findings, from the POISEIDON trial, are being … Continue reading
Researchers have found a better and a cheaper way to restore human sight by implanting a contact lens containing stem cells that will repair the human cornea. Scientists from the University of Sheffield hope that the biodegradable implant disc’s stem cells will multiply in the eye, thus rebuilding the transparent layer on the front of … 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
U.S. drug regulators have for the first time approved a therapy that uses cells of human blood from the placenta and the umbilical cord to treat people with blood-forming disorders or cancer. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday licensed Hemacord, manufactured by the New York Blood Center (NYBC), a therapy that contains self-recreating cells … 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
Tengion, a company out of East Norriton, PA, has successfully grown full size replacement bladders in large mammal models, helping pave the way for the company to receive FDA clearance to initiate clinical trials on humans in 2009. The company says that the results from a preclinical trial show that its product, known as Tengion Neo-Bladder Replacement™, … Continue reading
An HIV-infected patient may have been cured of the infection 3.5 years after receiving stem cell transplantation, according to researchers from Charité -University Medicine in Berlin. The researchers previously reported the likelihood of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation with CCR5D32/D32 donor cells in the HIV-infected patient with relapsed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) — missing viremia were documented within … Continue reading
British researchers say they had succeeded in reprogramming amniotic fluid cells without having to introduce extra genes. This suggests the possibility that stem cells derived from donated amniotic fluid could be stored in banks and used for medical therapies and in research, offering a less problematic alternative to embryonic stem cells. Stem cells are the … Continue reading