Thursday, May 20, 2010
Endometrial Stem Cells Restore Brain Dopamine Levels
Mouse Study May Lead to New Therapies for Parkinson's Disease
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
New Hampshire Family Counts Blessings after Stem Cell Treatment
Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Therapy Treats Young Mother’s Aplastic Anemia
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Thursday, December 24, 2009
Vitamin C Could Help With Creating Non-Controversial Adult Stem Cells
Research suggests the vitamin helps reprogramming of adult stem cells to become induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)
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Monday, December 21, 2009
German Center Treats 2,000th Stem Cell Patient
XCell-Center in Dusseldorf specializes in autologous stem cell treatments
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Friday, December 18, 2009
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Named Decade’s Most Important Biomedical Discovery
MIT Professor Explains how iPS cells opened new avenues for possible treatment of diseases such as Parkinson’s Disease and type 1 diabetes
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Stem Cell Treatment Enables MS Patient to Walk Again
Australian physicians used stem cells to “reset” the patient’s immune system
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Lone Star Paralysis Foundation to Study Use of Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells
Research study led by Dr. Wise Young of Rutgers will study how stem cell treatments using cord blood could be used to cure spinal cord injuries
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Hospital Group in India to Treat Diabetes with Cord Blood Stem Cells
Global Hospitals expects to start treating patients with type 1 diabetes by June 2010
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Company Develops Technology to Improve Engraftment Following Cord Blood Transplants
Researchers from Duke University and Aldagen, Inc. Report at American Society of Hematology’s Annual Meeting
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplant May Help Lung, Heart Disorders
Scientists confirm that studies add to the potential uses for cord blood stem cells
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Heart Therapy with Stem Cells Shows Progress
Northwestern University researcher rebuilding weak hearts
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Bill Would Educate Parents on Umbilical Cord Blood
“Informed Choice” legislation would require doctors to give expectant parents information about collecting and banking cord blood stem cells
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Texas Man Says Stem Cell Treatment Saved His Life
Texas man reports improvements after autologous stem cell treatment in Thailand for heart failure; more than 200 scientific trials underway in U.S. for stem cell treatments for heart disease.
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Monday, November 16, 2009
Stem Cells Improve Heart Function in Patients with Cardiomyopathy
Cardiologist is using stem cell therapy sees “extraordinary” results
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
“Adult Stem Cells Saved My Life” Campaign Set to Launch
Family Research Council shares stories of successful stem cell transplant patients
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Saturday, November 07, 2009
Market Experts Report Aggressive Growth in Stem Cells Market Driven by “Enormous Potential of Stem Cells”
Increasing demand for stem cell treatments including regenerative medicine and drug discovery
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Friday, November 06, 2009
Stem Cell Study Underway at Baptist Hospital
Phase II clinical study involving stem cell treatment for cardiovascular disease is underway
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Monday, November 02, 2009
Increasing the Number of Stem Cells Derived from Umbilical Cord Blood Provides Alternative to Bone Marrow Transplantation in Adults
Investigational Product Shown to Expand Population of Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells for Treatment of Leukemia and Lymphoma
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Sunday, November 01, 2009
Renowned Scientists in Collaboration to Research and Develop Induced Pluripotent Stem (IPS) Cells for Cardiac Therapies
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute funds multi-year, multimillion dollar project to focus on stem and progenitor cell tools and treatments
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
California Stem Cell Agency Awards $230 Million Research Grants
Funding will support stem cell research into treating cancer, diabetes and a host of other devastating diseases that scientists hope will be ready to test in human subjects in the next four years.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
UCLA Stem Cell Scientists Receive $49.2 Million to Develop New Therapies for Disease
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine awards grants to fast-track development of stem cell-based treatments for diseases including sickle cell disease, HIV/AIDS and brain, ovarian and colorectal cancers.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Professional Soccer Player’s Wife in Remission after Cord Blood Stem Cell Treatment for Leukemia
Real Salt Lake Midfielder’s Andy Williams’ Improved Performance Coincides with His Wife’s Improved Health
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Updated NCCN Guidelines for Treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia Include Cord Blood Stem Cells
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) announced updates to the Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology(TM) for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) to include cord blood as an official stem cell treatment option.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
John Daly After Stem Cell Treatment - “Miraculous Recovery”
The PGA of Australia reports in a statement that, “thanks to a miraculous recovery, American crowd favorite and dual Major winner John Daly will return to Australia in December to play the 2009 Australian Open and the Australian PGA Championship…”
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Children’s Hospital of Colorado Participating in Trial Using Therapy Derived from Cord Blood Stem Cells To Treat Leukemia and Lymphoma
Children’s Hospital of Colorado enrolling patients for a cord blood stem cell transplant study
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Cord Blood Stem Cells Used to Treat Paralysis
A Texas-based organization reports that it will raise $3 million to help fund the first non-controversial stem cell trials for people with Spinal Cord Injury.
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Treat Boy with Cerebral Palsy
Stem cell treatment helps boy with cerebral palsy
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
California's Stem Cell Agency Awards $5.42 Million to UCLA Researchers
The California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded a total of $5.42 million in stem cell grants to four scientists at UCLA's Broad Stem Cell Research Center.
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Thursday, September 03, 2009
Renowned Doctor Announces Change of View Regarding Private Cord Blood Banking, saying “If they can afford it, people should store their baby’s blood”
Neuroscientist outlines reasons for changing his position regarding the importance of storing stem cells from cord blood
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Thursday, September 03, 2009
Harvard University Launches First Undergrad Degree Concentrating on Stem Cells
Harvard University’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (SCRB) has introduced a new field of study as a concentration to its undergraduate students, called human development and regenerative biology (HDRB).
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Ohio Senate to Vote on Cord Blood Awareness Legislation
Proposed legislation promoting awareness for benefits of cord blood storage has bipartisan support
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Doctors Take Up Collection to Pay for Patient’s Umbilical Cord Blood Banking
Cincinnati doctors pay to bank stem cells from baby's cord blood.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Cryo-Cell Announces Strategic Partnership With S-Evans Biosciences, Inc.
Stem Cell and Genomics Biosciences Company Signs Exclusive License for C`elle(SM) Menstrual Stem Cell Technology in China
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Stem Cells Used to Grow Tooth in the Mouth of a Mouse
The Wall Street Journal’s Jeremy Singer-Vine reports that researchers at the Tokyo University of Science have used stem cells to grow a replacement tooth for a mouse. A report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports that this is the first time that scientists have developed a fully functioning three-dimensional organ replacement using stem cells.
The scientists created a set of cells that contained genetic instructions to build a tooth, and then implanted it into the mouse’s tooth socket. The tooth grew in the same manner that a natural one would. After 11 weeks, it had a similar shape, hardness and response to pain or stress as a natural tooth, and worked equally well for chewing. The researchers suggested that using similar techniques in humans could restore function to patients with organ failure.
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Friday, August 07, 2009
Adult Stem Cells Help Ease Arthritis
Dr. Max Gomez of WCBS TV reports on a clinic near Denver, Colorado that is using adult stem cells to treat osteo-arthritis of the knee, hip, ankle, and even back pain. Dr. Christopher Centeno and two of his patients discuss the process and their experience.
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Friday, August 07, 2009
Fallopian Tubes a Source of Stem Cells
BBC News reports that researchers in Sao Paulo, Brazil have discovered that fallopian tubes are an abundant source of mesenchymal stem cells. Because fallopian tubes normally are discarded during surgeries such as hysterectomies, they may be good source for non-controversial donor cells for regenerative medicine. In addition, the researchers anticipate that the cells could be useful for understanding and treating fertility problems. The researchers’ findings were published in the Journal of Transitional Medicine.
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Friday, August 07, 2009
Scientists Use Adult Stem Cells to Create Healthy Mice
Alan Mozes of BusinessWeek’s HealthDay reports on a milestone in stem cell research. Chinese scientists have grown healthy, fertile mice by using pluripotent stem cells (iPS) derived not from controversial embryonic stem cells, but instead from those of adult mice.
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Friday, August 07, 2009
University of Alabama at Birmingham Creates Stem Cell Institute
Birmingham Business Journal - Jimmy DeButts reports in article entitled “UAB to Bring Jobs, Research through Stem Cell Institute.” The University of Alabama at Birmingham is building on the success of its existing biotech research facilities to create a Stem Cell Institute.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Researchers Believe Adult Stem Cells May be Useful for Wounds
Paula Moyer reports for Dermatology Times that researchers believe adult stem cells may have a greater role in wound healing in the future. William J. Landis, Ph.D., at the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy says that he and his co-workers have been conducting tissue-engineering research with bovine models to learn if stem cells can heal wounds in bones, cartilage and tendons. "Dermatologists should know that investigators are exploring the possibility of promoting wound healing with stem cell treatments,” he said.
"Serious cutaneous and connective tissue pathologies should be treatable with stem cells. This is an area of medicine that has broad potential, and I would encourage dermatologists to be involved in the research investigating stem cell use for wound healing in as wide a spectrum of applications as possible," Dr. Landis said.
Dr. Landis reports that stem cells may be readily available from a variety of sources, including cord blood and bone
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Umbilical Cords a Rich Source of Stem Cells
Tom Blackwell of the National Post reports that Toronto-based researchers have found that usually discarded umbilical cords are a plentiful source of mesenchymal stem cells. A group of researchers at Princess Margaret Hospital and the University of Toronto in Ontario say they’ve discovered that umbilical cords are a “virtually inexhaustible” and non-controversial source of promising stem cells.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
University of Florida Scientists Program Adult Stem Cells to Become Vision Cells
The University of Florida’s John Pastor reports that researchers at the university have programmed bone marrow stem cells to repair damaged retinas in mice. This suggests that there is potential to treat common causes of vision loss in humans, such as macular degeneration, which affects nearly 2 million people in the United States, and some forms of blindness related to diabetes.
Researchers removed blood stem cells from the bone marrow of mice, modified the cells in cultures, and injected them back into the animals’ circulatory systems. From there, the stem cells were able to hone in on the eye injury and become retinal cells. At 28 days after receiving the modified stem cells, mice that had previously demonstrated no retinal function were no different than normal mice in electrical measures of their response to light.
The University of Florida’s College of Medicine reports that the success in repairing a damaged layer of retinal cells in mice implies that blood stem cells take
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
CWRU Receives 5 Million Dollars from Ohio Third Frontier Commission
Medical News Today reports that the Center for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine has received $5 million in funding from Ohio’s Third Frontier Commission under the Research Commercialization Program. The Ohio Third Frontier is a bipartisan organization whose aim is to promote the state’s technological strengths and help with commercialization of technologies.
The funding will help support new and innovative stem cell technologies including two commercial, four emerging and three pilot projects. This funding will be matched by each of the projects to create a $10 million grant benefiting stem cell and regenerative medicine in Ohio. The Center for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine (CSCRM) is comprised of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland Clinic (CC), University Hospitals (UH), and Athersys, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company.
"This funding provides CSCRM the support it needs to continue to aggressively move new technologies from academic
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
UConn Professor’s Stem Cell Research May Lead to Improved Heart Attack Recovery
Promising research which may potentially improve a person’s recovery after suffering a heart attack.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Johns Hopkins Students Embed Stem Cells In Sutures To Enhance Healing
ScienceDaily reports that biomedical engineering students at Johns Hopkins University have demonstrated a way to embed a patient's own adult stem cells in the surgical thread that doctors use to repair serious orthopedic injuries such as ruptured tendons. The goal, the students said, is to enhance healing and reduce the likelihood of re-injury without changing the surgical procedure itself.
At the site of the injury, the stem cells are expected to reduce inflammation and release growth factor proteins that speed up healing, enhancing the prospects for a full recovery and reducing the likelihood of re-injury.
In collaboration with orthopedic physicians, the team's preliminary experiments in an animal model have yielded promising results. Provided the trials continue to be successful, it is estimated that possible human trials could take place within about five years.
“We believe the stem cells will significantly speed up and improve the healing process,” said Ma
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Study at University of Wisconsin Uses a Stem Cell Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes
Study aims to learn whether treating newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetics with adult stem cells can either slow or stop the progression of their disease, thereby reducing or even eliminating insulin dependence.
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Louisville Man is World’s First Cardiac Stem Cell Recipient
Laura Ungar of the Louisville Courier-Journal reports on one of the world’s first recipients of an infusion of cardiac stem cells as a part of a Phase 1 clinical trial being conducted by a team of University of Louisville physicians at Jewish Hospital.
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Stem Cell Treatments Effective for Secondary Leukemia in Breast Cancer Survivors
Researchers from the City of Hope National Medical Center have reported on a study that suggests that there continues to be improvement in the results of stem cell treatments for patients with secondary leukemia and myelodysplasia.
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Novel Stem Cell Trial Targets Heart Disease
The Reporter’s Kathy Whitney reports that Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute recently enrolled its first patient in a Phase II clinical trial using stem cell treatments aimed to reverse damage to the patient's cardiac muscle caused by heart disease.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
U.S. Doctors Treat Heart Attack With Man's Own Stem Cells
Forbes.com reports that American physicians have performed the first procedure in which a patient received injections of his own heart stem cells to repair cardiac muscle damaged by heart attack.
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Friday, June 12, 2009
Eastern Virginia Medical School Studies Stem Cell Treatments for Diabetes
Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) is conducting this double blind study on the effectiveness of a new therapy using adult stem cells to treat type 1 diabetes.
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Friday, June 05, 2009
Stem Cell Treatment for Stroke Survivors
There are many treatments and therapies for stroke victims. Today, the most widely used are various medications, often combined with physical and/or speech therapy. In addition to medication and physical therapy, there is promising research on the benefits of stem cell treatments for stroke victims.
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Friday, June 05, 2009
How Does One Mend A Broken Heart?
Current research indicates that it may be possible to “fix a broken heart.” Adult stem cells may be used to help replace damaged heart muscles, heart tissue, valves and establish new blood vessels to supply them.
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Stem Cells Used on Stroke Victim – First in U.S. to be treated with own Cells
The Houston Chronicle reports that doctors from the University of Texas Medical School have launched the nation's first experimental trial to treat stroke patients with their own stem cells.
This new treatment is directed at patients who were not able to receive a tissue plasminogen activator or who did not respond to the treatment, which is reported as the only treatment available now for stroke victims.
Neurologist and Professor Sean Savitz reported that the trial's first patient was treated on March 25, 2009 and is doing well. "We're just at the beginning, but this could be an exciting new area of therapeutic intervention for stroke," said the doctor, adding, "It could be the next frontier."
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Friday, May 29, 2009
Stem Cells Transplanted from Marrow into Heart May Improve Heart's Performance
Over the past four years, the Reina Sofía hospital in Córdoba, Spain has been conducting clinical trials using stem cells to treat patients who have suffered one or more heart attacks. One trial in particular, completed in 2007, concluded that one type of stem cell therapy showed great promise. The test consisted of 30 patients who had suffered severe myocardial infarction, or an obstruction of a main coronary artery.
One third of the patients received standard treatment; the second group was treated with a medication called G-CSF, which makes cells move from the marrow to the blood, thereby reaching the heart. The third group received stem cells from their bone marrow, which were implanted directly into the coronary artery via catheter.
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Mary Tyler Moore discusses her support of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)
Courtney Ann Jackson of Talk Radio News Service reports on actress Mary Tyler Moore’s announcement of an upcoming Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation event.
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Adult Bone Marrow Stem Cells Injected Into Skeletal Muscle Can Repair Heart Tissue
Science Daily reports that researchers at the University at Buffalo have demonstrated that injecting adult bone marrow stem cells into skeletal muscle can repair cardiac tissue and reverse heart failure.
The study, performed on an animal, showed that this non-invasive procedure increased the number of heart cells two-fold and reduced cardiac tissue injury by 60 percent. It also showed an improved function of the left ventricle, the heart’s primary pumping chamber, by 40%, and reduced fibrosis, the hardening of the heart lining that impairs its ability to contract, by 50%.
The novel method of delivering mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) via an intramuscular route is preferable over clinical trials which have focused more often on invasive procedures such as introducing stem cells directly into the heart. These methods carry more risks and can result in harmful scar tissue, arrhythmia, calcification or small vessel blockages.
"For these reasons, and because patients with heart failure
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Stem Cell Research Seeks to Wean Non-related Transplant Recipients from Anti-rejection Drugs
Phase I trial investigating the potential use of stem cells to help reduce or eliminate kidney transplant patients’ reliance on anti-rejection medications
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
New Stem Cell Treatments Holds Hope for Heart Attack Victims
The cardio-thoracic department of Chennai-based Sri Ramachandra University and Dr. Naresh Trehan's center in New Delhi have joined forces to conduct stem cell research for heart attack victims undergoing a by-pass surgery. The stem cell therapy will involve the patients receiving stem cell shots during the operation. This stem cell research will start after the department of biotechnology gives its nod for the pilot project. Scientists hope this stem cell treatment will enrich the heart cells and repair damages caused due to cardiac arrest. Dr. Amit N Patel, Director of Cardiac Stem Cell Therapies at the McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine, says injection of stem cells improve the function of muscles and blood vessels allowing patients to lead a near-normal life.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Stem Cell Research Shows Promise
Doctors say new stem cell research could fight a form of heart disease. Doctors in the Netherlands injected bone marrow and stem cells into the heart of 50 patients, all suffering from a chronic heart condition. Some got a placebo instead of the stem cells. Three months after the procedure, those who got the real stem cell treatment had improvements in blood flow and heart function, exercise capacity and overall quality of life.
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Young Holly's Brave Stem-Cell Quest
Each morning 11-year old Holly Arvidson wakes, she hopes it will be the day she will be given sight.
Holly and her family have returned from China where the 11-year-old from Denman underwent the first round of a controversial stem cell treatment which will hopefully result in her being able to see. Holly, who was born blind, is believed to be the 20th child to travel to china from Australia for stem cell treatment which has not been approved in the country. The treatment, which involves a number of stem cell injections over a four-week period, is achieving results and has an 80 per cent success rate, Mrs. Arvidson said. The Arvidsons hope that over the next six months Holly's vision will progressively start to improve and she will gain some light perception. "The second treatment should bring sight and a third even better sight. We plan to return to China next year," Mrs. Arvidson said.
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Monday, May 04, 2009
Stearns County Commissioner Betting on Stem Cell Therapy
Don Otte is betting on stem cell therapy to completely annihilate the cancer he has been battling for the past 16 years. Otte, the county commissioner for Stearns County Minnesota, was diagnosed in 1992 with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. At the time doctors told him he would be dead in five years. Through self-education and actively seeking out new and sometimes unorthodox treatment methods, Otte has managed to stick around much longer than expected. Over the past decade Otte has undergone numerous radiation and chemotherapy treatments as well as some unconventional treatments like shark cartilage pills and having the fillings removed from his teeth, believing that the mercury was suppressing his immune system. During this time the cancer went into remission. But it soon showed up elsewhere in his body, including fast-growing cells in his knee and his chest cavity. During a four-year period, Otte tried three different experimental drugs, including one that caused severe muscle cramping. When
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Monday, May 04, 2009
Study: Tumor-Killing Cells from Stem Cells More Potent
New research at the University of Minnesota shows natural killer cells taken from human embryonic stem cells are more effective at killing tumors than cells taken from other sources. A research team led by Dan Kaufman, M.D., Ph.D. demonstrated natural killer cells from human embryonic stem cells are better at killing human leukemia in mice, preventing the cancer from metastasizing in any of the animal’s organs. The study has also shown stem cell-derived tumor-killing cells are highly effective in killing breast cancer, prostate cancer, testicular cancer and brain tumor cells.
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Friday, May 01, 2009
Cord Blood: Saving For the Future
For an expectant mother, there are a million details to worry about and a lot of important decisions to be made. One of those decisions to be made is whether to bank your baby's umbilical cord blood. Cord blood is valuable because it's full of stem cells scientists and doctors can use in research and regenerative medicine. Right now cord blood stem cells are being used to treat more than 70 life-threatening diseases including a wide range of cancers, blood disorders, immune system deficiencies and genetic diseases.
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
New Study Uses Cord Blood to Treat Children with Type 1 Diabetes
NBC Los Angeles features a new study in which recently diagnosed diabetic children are being treated with stem cells from umbilical cord blood.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Cryo-Cell Announces Partnership with National Institutes of Health
Collaboration will evaluate menstrual stem cells for future potential breast cancer therapy
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