January 16, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – In Hyderabad, India, Sayan Basu is using stem cells in a pilot project to restore the eyesight of patients with damaged corneas. If proven successful, the procedure could mean that Indian citizens can avoid long waiting lists … Read More
January 16, 2015
(Medical News Today) – In a new study, researchers from Duke University in Durham, NC, reveal they have grown the first ever human skeletal muscle that contracts in response to external stimuli, such as electrical impulses and pharmaceuticals. The team … Read More
January 7, 2015
(Johns Hopkins University) – A powerful “genome editing” technology known as CRISPR has been used by researchers since 2012 to trim, disrupt, replace or add to sequences of an organism’s DNA. Now, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine have shown that … Read More
January 6, 2015
(Newswise) – In a groundbreaking study that provides scientists with a critical new understanding of stem cell development and its role in disease, UCLA researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research led … Read More
January 6, 2015
(The Atlantic) – Now that the hurdle of the transplanted uterus has been overcome, researchers have turned to a technology borrowed straight from sci-fi: a bioengineered uterus. Doctors in the burgeoning field of regenerative medicine produce organs and parts of … Read More
January 5, 2015
(U. S. News & World Report) – Using stem cells derived from a patient’s own bone marrow, researchers have repaired a fistula — a potentially fatal tissue abnormality — in the man’s lower airway. “This is another interesting new therapeutic … Read More
January 2, 2015
(Nature) – The latest investigation into a debunked method of generating stem cells has left researchers grappling with questions about what went wrong in a laboratory at the RIKEN research institute in Japan. The final report from the independent investigation, … Read More
December 31, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Belgian researchers have identified a new strategy for treating an inherited form of dementia after attempting to turn stem cells derived from patients into the neurons most affected by the disease. In patient-derived stem cells carrying a … Read More
December 31, 2014
(National Institutes of Health) – Three-year outcomes from an ongoing clinical trial suggest that high-dose immunosuppressive therapy followed by transplantation of a person’s own blood-forming stem cells may induce sustained remission in some people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). RRMS … Read More
December 30, 2014
(Eurekalert) – The body has evolved ways to get rid of faulty stem cells. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in the journal Stem Cells shows that one of these ways is a “program” that makes stem … Read More
December 29, 2014
(Union Times San Diego) – Two prominent skeptics of what they view as unregulated and overly hyped stem cell treatments say one patient’s experience isn’t enough to establish a causal relationship. Properly controlled clinical trials are needed for that, say … Read More
December 29, 2014
(Nature) – Israeli and UK researchers have created human sperm and egg precursor cells in a dish, starting from a person’s skin cells. The achievement is a small step towards a treatment for infertility, although one that could face significant … Read More
December 29, 2014
(Medical News Today) – The treatment of hair loss is a problem that has had both beauty practitioners and dermatologists alike scratching their heads. Surprisingly, a group of cancer researchers may have found an exciting new way to stimulate hair … Read More
December 19, 2014
(Science) – A Japanese team announced Friday in Tokyo that it has been unable to reproduce a new, astoundingly simple way of generating pluripotent stem cells, despite working directly with the lead author on the Nature papers reporting the breakthrough … Read More
December 19, 2014
(BBC) – A stem cell therapy has been approved for widespread medical use in the EU for the first time. Stem cells can become any type of tissue in the body and hold huge promise in medicine. The treatment – Holoclar … Read More
December 16, 2014
(Medscape) – Stromal (mesenchymal) stem cells from patients’ own eyes may replace corneal transplants, suggests a study published in the December 10 issue of Science Translational Medicine. Sayan Basu, MD, from L. V. Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad, India, and … Read More
December 15, 2014
(Phys.org) – Scientists at the University at Buffalo and other institutions have turned cells normally used as model cells, known as immortalized cells, into stem or, as they call it, “stem-like” cells, using nothing more than mechanical stress. They have … Read More
December 12, 2014
(Phys.org) – Researchers have identified a new class of lab-engineered stem cells-cells capable of transforming into nearly all forms of tissue-and have dubbed them F-class cells because they cluster together in “fuzzy-looking” colonies. The discovery, which was described in a … Read More
December 11, 2014
(Retraction Watch) – A Korean stem cell journal has retracted a paper on a controversial Italian treatment that involves harvesting stem cells from bone marrow and injecting them back into the patient. “Stamina therapy” has been pitched as a treatment … Read More
December 11, 2014
(MIT Technology Review) – Elite athletes do whatever it takes to win. Lately, that’s meant getting an injection of their own stem cells. The treatments, developed over the last eight years, typically involve extracting a small amount of a player’s … Read More
December 11, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – UCLA scientists have for the first time identified a protein that plays a key role in regulating how blood stem cells replicate in humans. This discovery lays the groundwork for a better understanding of how this protein … Read More
December 10, 2014
(Nature) – he hope is that pluripotent cells could be used to repair damaged or diseased tissue — something that moved closer to reality this year, when retinal cells derived from iPS cells were transplanted into a woman with eye … Read More
December 8, 2014
(NBC News) – Plastic surgeons, other doctors and naturopaths at more than 100 clinics round the country are charging thousands of dollars for a controversial procedure called stem cell therapy to treat a range of disorders, including neurological diseases like … Read More
December 8, 2014
(Nanowerk) – Stem cells offer great potential in biomedical engineering due to their pluripotency, which is the ability to multiply indefinitely and also to differentiate and develop into any kind of the hundreds of different cells and bodily tissues. But … Read More
December 5, 2014
(Scientific American) – You’d think doctors and patients would be clamoring for cells so versatile they could help reboot a body suffering from everything from leukemia to diabetes. But a new report shows that an important source of these stem … Read More
