January 21, 2019
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (vol. 15, no. 3, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Strategies to Guide the Return of Genomic Research Findings: An Australian Perspective” by Lisa Eckstein and Margaret Otlowski “Medicolegal Complications of Apnoea Testing for … Read More
January 18, 2019
(STAT News) – The cause of AMD is well-known, the recipe for turning stem cells into retinal cells works like a charm, and the eye is “immunoprivileged,” meaning immune cells don’t attack foreigners such as, say, lab-made retinal cells. Yet more … Read More
January 15, 2019
(Vox) – The treatment is an experimental chemotherapy and hematopoietic stem cell transplant offered in the first randomized trial comparing the outcomes of patients receiving the treatment to patients who took standard MS medications. The results of the trial appeared … Read More
January 9, 2019
(Vox) – Currently, the only stem cell therapy approved by the FDA is a bone marrow transplant that uses pluripotent stem cells to treat cancers of the blood and bone marrow. But doctors in the Cell Surgical Network have moved … Read More
January 8, 2019
(Kaiser Health News) – Hoping to earn its share of the $3.5 trillion health care market, the medical industry is pouring more money than ever into advertising its products — from high-priced prescriptions to do-it-yourself genetic tests and unapproved stem … Read More
January 8, 2019
(Newsweek) – Ascientist in India has claimed that ancient Hindus invented test tube babies and stem cell technology. G. Nageshwar Rao, the vice chancellor of Andhra University in southern India, referred to an ancient Hindu text in which one woman … Read More
January 7, 2019
(UPI) – A recently discovered stem cell enzyme could help doctors identify cancer cells that fly under the radar, a study says. More than 20 types of tumors contain this stem cell enzyme, known as ADAR1, according to findings published … Read More
December 27, 2018
(Nautilus) – That conclusion, which confirms a long-standing suspicion among some in the field, cuts to the heart of a deeper question—about what it means to be a stem cell. As more sophisticated technology has revealed just how plastic and … Read More
December 26, 2018
(Pew Charitable Trusts) – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced a settlement with a physician in California to resolve charges that the two clinics he controlled engaged in deceptive advertising to promote unproven stem cell-based therapies. This case represents … Read More
December 21, 2018
(CNN) – Twelve people in three states developed infections and were hospitalized after they got infusions or injections of stem cell products derived from umbilical cord blood that were contaminated with bacteria, according to a report published Thursday by the … Read More
December 17, 2018
(Medscape) – Two American Heart Association (AHA) journals, Circulation and Circulation Research, have retracted 13 papers from the now defunct laboratory of cardiac stem cell researcher Piero Anversa, MD. All 13 papers earned expressions of concern last month when the … Read More
December 14, 2018
(Australian Broadcasting Co) – Thirty-five patients, including Ms Zorbalas, were given medication to boost their own stem cells, which were then extracted and harvested. Six days of chemotherapy wiped out each patient’s immune system. Their own stem cells were then … Read More
December 6, 2018
(PhysOrg) – Researchers have succeeded in converting human skin cells into blood stem cells in an international collaboration project. “This is a first step on the way to generating fully functional blood stem cells in a petri dish which, in … Read More
December 6, 2018
(Quanta Magazine) – For the past three years, researchers at the Hubrecht Institute in the Netherlands have been painstakingly cataloging and mapping all the proliferating cells found in mouse hearts, looking for cardiac stem cells. The elusive cells should theoretically … Read More
December 5, 2018
(Medical Xpress) – A detailed cell-by-cell map of all dividing cells in the adult murine heart before and after myocardial infarction was created using advanced molecular and genetic technologies in a combined research effort led by Hans Clevers from the … Read More
December 4, 2018
(The Washington Post) – Esrick and colleagues focused on trying to boost levels of a normally functioning fetal form of hemoglobin that is typically shut off after birth. They removed blood stem cells from Johnson and altered them in the … Read More
December 3, 2018
(GEN) – Scientists at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons report a surprising new finding: the human intestine may provide up to 10% of blood cells in circulation from its own reservoir of blood-forming stem cells. Previously, blood … Read More
November 28, 2018
(Reuters) – Scientists in Britain have succeeded in creating mini human placenta organoids which they say will transform scientific understanding of reproductive disorders such as pre-eclampsia and miscarriage. The organoids – miniature functional cellular models of the human placenta’s earliest … Read More
November 26, 2018
(Science) – Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) can produce all cell lineages within the adult blood system, and they have provided a flagship model in which to study stem cell biology. Concepts developed from studying HSCs have influenced how we consider … Read More
November 19, 2018
(Pew Research Trusts) – The methods that Johnston and his team used arose from their investigations into stem cells and the factors that influence what they become. The researchers began with human embryonic stem cells and supplied them with nutrients … Read More
November 19, 2018
(Los Angeles Times) – The Food and Drug Administration has come down hard on StemGenex, a La Jolla clinic pitching stem cell treatments for multiple sclerosis, diabetes, Parkinson’s and other conditions. In a warning letter made public Tuesday, the FDA … Read More
November 19, 2018
(Medscape) – The largest trial to date investigating the use of stem cells to enhance myocardial recovery in patients who have received a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) missed the primary end point of improved cardiac function, but has shown … Read More
November 15, 2018
(Scientific American) – Japanese neurosurgeons have implanted ‘reprogrammed’ stem cells into the brain of a patient with Parkinson’s disease for the first time. The condition is only the second for which a therapy has been trialled using induced pluripotent stem … Read More
November 15, 2018
(Nature) – ‘Mini brains’ grown in a dish have spontaneously produced human-like brain waves for the first time — and the electrical patterns look similar to those seen in premature babies. The advancement could help scientists to study early brain … Read More
November 14, 2018
(Nature) – Up to half of allogeneic transplant recipients experience acute GvHD. This is a severe immune reaction that occurs in the first 100 days after the procedure and can rapidly become life-threatening. Then there is the long-term immune assault … Read More
