October 30, 2013
Stem-cell transplant recipients had low rates of acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) with a conditioning regimen that included the lipid-lowering agent atorvastatin (Lipitor), a small, preliminary study showed. (Med Page Today)
October 28, 2013
A new technique touted by cardiologists at Emory hopes to treat the damage caused by a heart attack by increasing the efficiency of stem cell therapy in the heart. Stem cell therapy is already used to help heal the heart … Read More
October 28, 2013
The research group shows in a new study, published in the scientific journal Brain, that so-called induced pluripotent stem cells have developed to mature nerve cells at two months after transplantation into the stroke-injured cerebral cortex of rats. These nerve … Read More
October 25, 2013
Blood and bone marrow stem cell transplants may put a damper on the sex lives of cancer patients, a new study suggests. This type of stem cell transplant is an increasingly effective form of treatment for patients with blood cancers … Read More
October 24, 2013
The first evidence that the underlying genetic defect responsible for trisomy 21, also known as Down syndrome, can be suppressed in laboratory cultures of patient-derived stem cells was presented at the American Society of Human Genetics 2013 annual meeting in … Read More
October 23, 2013
Reports in scientific journals have started to trickle in on the way stem cells can spontaneously organize themselves into complex brain tissue—what some researchers have dubbed mini-brains. Christopher A. Walsh, Bullard Professor of pediatrics and neurology at Harvard Medical School, … Read More
October 23, 2013
University of Toronto researchers have developed a method that can rapidly screen human stem cells and better control what they will turn into. The technology could have potential use in regenerative medicine and drug development. Findings are published in this … Read More
October 22, 2013
Doctors at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital have carried out a pioneering bone-marrow transplant technique. They say the method should help with donor shortages since it does not require a perfect cell match. Mohammed Ahmed, who is nearly five years … Read More
October 22, 2013
In a feat of modern-day alchemy with huge potential for regenerative medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have developed a fast, efficient way to turn cells extracted from routine liposuction into liver cells. The advance is described in a … Read More
October 22, 2013
Bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that physical cues can replace certain chemicals when nudging mature cells back to a pluripotent stage, capable of becoming any cell type in the body. The researchers grew fibroblasts – cells … Read More
October 21, 2013
Scientists report in Nature they have found a novel and unexpected molecular switch that could become a key to slowing some of the ravages of getting older as it prompts blood stem cells to age. The study is expected to … Read More
October 18, 2013
Recently published results from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute’s first-ever clinical trials have identified a molecule that could increase the success rates of umbilical cord blood transplants in cancer patients. The trials found that umbilical cord blood cells treated with … Read More
October 18, 2013
A source of gut stem cells that can repair a type of inflammatory bowel disease when transplanted into mice has been identified by researchers at the Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute at the University of Cambridge and … Read More
October 17, 2013
Johns Hopkins scientists have developed new drugs that — at least in a laboratory dish — appear to halt the brain-destroying impact of a genetic mutation at work in some forms of two incurable diseases, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and … Read More
October 16, 2013
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute has entered into a partnership with the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) to build resources for studying Parkinson’s disease to accelerate new treatments. Sponsored by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for … Read More
October 15, 2013
In what they’re calling a ‘biological surprise’, a team of expert international geneticists led by a University of Otago researcher have discovered a key piece of information about how the human brain is put together and how such a complex … Read More
October 15, 2013
Clinical trials of the antibody, known as KB004, have produced no side-effects even at high doses. And while the trials are designed to test the drug’s safety, some patients – most of whom have acute myeloid leukemia, one of the … Read More
October 15, 2013
Tremendous progress has been made in understanding how uterine fibroid tumors—the most common tumor in women – start and grow. A new paper in the New England Journal of Medicine synthesizes the latest research on the role of the hormone … Read More
October 15, 2013
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have identified a protein expressed by human bone marrow stem cells that guides and stimulates the formation of blood vessels. Their findings, which could help improve the vascularization of engineered tissues, were … Read More
October 14, 2013
A new method for creating stem cells for the human liver and pancreas, which could enable both cell types to be grown in sufficient quantities for clinical use, has been developed by scientists. Using the technique, researchers have for the … Read More
October 14, 2013
The controversy surrounding an unproven stem cell therapy in Italy may be drawing to a close. Italy’s Minister of Health Beatrice Lorenzin announced yesterday that Stamina, the Turin-based nonprofit foundation that developed the treatment, will not be allowed to test it … Read More
October 12, 2013
In case you missed it, an important news item in Nature came across the wire recently: Scientists were able to convert skin stem cells into induced pluripotent stem cells at near 100% efficiency. What does this mean? Let’s take a … Read More
October 11, 2013
Johns Hopkins researchers, working with elderly mice, have determined that combining gene therapy with an extra boost of the same stem cells the body already uses to repair itself leads to faster healing of burns and greater blood flow to … Read More
October 11, 2013
New research has shown that the stomach naturally produces more stem cells than previously realized, likely for repair of injuries from infections, digestive fluids and the foods we eat. (Washington University in St. Louis)
October 10, 2013
Researchers at the University of Michigan Department of Surgery have begun testing an alternative to embryonic stem cells that could one day regenerate muscle tissue for babies with congenital heart defects. A research-in-progress report on this new approach, which uses … Read More
