October 20, 2014
(Harvard Stem Cell Institute) – Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital have found that adding two small molecules to the four classic “Yamanaka factors” generates the fastest mouse induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells ever reported. This simple tweak … Read More
October 17, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Despite previous indications to the contrary, the esophagus does have its own pool of stem cells, said researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in an animal study published online today in Cell Reports. The … Read More
October 16, 2014
(New York Times) – An experimental therapy has brought prolonged remissions to a high proportion of patients who were facing death from advanced leukemia after standard treatments had failed, researchers are reporting. The therapy involves genetically programming cells from the … Read More
October 15, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Two studies recently published in Cell Transplantation reveal that cell transplantation may be an effective treatment for spinal cord injury (SCI), a major cause of disability and paralysis with no current restorative therapies. Using laboratory rats modeled … Read More
October 14, 2014
(Medical News Today) – A previously unknown mechanism through which the brain produces new nerve cells after a stroke has been discovered at Lund University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The findings have been published in the journal SCIENCE. A … Read More
October 14, 2014
(Nature) – A remaining hurdle is shielding the cells from immune attack. This is necessary if the treatment is to become more widely available, because immunosuppressant drugs can be justified only in the most severe cases of diabetes. And although … Read More
October 13, 2014
(Eurekalert) – Researchers have developed a technique to jump-start the body’s systems for creating blood vessels, opening the door for potential new treatments for diseases whose impacts include amputation and blindness. The international team, led by scientists at the Indiana … Read More
October 8, 2014
(Science) – A long-running controversy sparked by the Italian government’s decision to fund a clinical trial of an unapproved stem cell therapy may have reached its final chapter. Last week, a panel of experts appointed by the Italian Ministry of … Read More
October 7, 2014
(MIT News) – Deep within the bone marrow resides a type of cells known as mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). These immature cells can differentiate into cells that produce bone, cartilage, fat, or muscle — a trait that scientists have tried … Read More
October 6, 2014
(National Post) – A key problem, as McGill genetic ethicist Bartha Knoppers said this week, is that medical ethics is ill-equipped to contain or thwart the rise of these “luxury” applications of stem cell science, which already loom in the … Read More
October 3, 2014
(Medical News Today) – Because heart cells cannot multiply and cardiac muscles contain few stem cells, heart tissue is unable to repair itself after a heart attack. Now Tel Aviv University researchers are literally setting a new gold standard in … Read More
October 2, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that a region on the front surface of the eye harbours special stem cells that could treat blinding eye conditions. This part of the eye is called the ‘corneal … Read More
September 30, 2014
(Medscape) – For the large portion of patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain who fall into the chasm of not responding to noninvasive therapies but decline or are not candidates for joint or spine surgery, some clinicians are turning to autologous … Read More
September 26, 2014
(Medical News Today) – The liver provides critical functions, such as ridding the body of toxins. Its failure can be deadly, and there are few options for fixing it. But scientists now report in the journal ACS Applied Materials & … Read More
September 25, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Over 500 million people worldwide carry a genetic mutation that disables a common metabolic protein called ALDH2. The mutation, which predominantly occurs in people of East Asian descent, leads to an increased risk of heart disease and … Read More
September 19, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Investigators from the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) at the Université de Montréal have just published, in the prestigious magazine Science, the announcement of the discovery of a new molecule, the first of its … Read More
September 18, 2014
(Nature) – In this instance, the woman’s vision is unlikely to improve. However, researchers around the world are watching to see whether the cells stop the retina from deteriorating further and whether any side effects develop. Should the woman experience … Read More
September 17, 2014
(Eurekalert) – Now researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a new cocktail of reprogramming factors that produce high-quality iPSCs. Dr. Yosef Buganim, at the Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada in the Hebrew University’s Faculty of Medicine, worked … Read More
September 16, 2014
(Optometry Today) – A patient in Japan has become the first person to be treated with a stem cell treatment for age –related macular degeneration (AMD). In a world first, researchers at the RIKEN Centre for Developmental Biology (CDB), in … Read More
September 15, 2014
(Eurekalert) – Using human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), researchers have gained new insight into what may cause schizophrenia by revealing the altered patterns of neuronal signaling associated with this disease. They did so by exposing neurons derived from the … Read More
September 12, 2014
(Medical News Today) – Previously, researchers have struggled to generate human pluripotent stem cells that are in a truly “blank state.” Instead, they have only been able to derive cells that have advanced slightly further down the developmental pathway and … Read More
September 11, 2014
(Digital Journal) – Ryan Benton, a 28 year-old Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy patient from Wichita, Kansas, received his first umbilical cord tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cell treatment yesterday following US FDA approval of his doctor’s application for a single patient, investigational new … Read More
September 10, 2014
(Nature) – A Japanese patient with a debilitating eye disease is about to become the first person to be treated with induced pluripotent stem cells, which have generated enthusiastic expectations and earned their inventor a Nobel Prize. A health-ministry committee … Read More
September 9, 2014
(Phys.org) – Now, in a new study published today, Sept. 8, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has added a new wrinkle to the cell differentiation equation, showing … Read More
September 8, 2014
(Irish Examiner) – Human trials on the effectiveness of using adult stem cells in the fight against cornea transplant rejection could be under way within the next five years. Corneal eye disease is the fourth most common cause of blindness … Read More
