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
November 14, 2018
(The Japan Times) – Kyoto University said Friday it has conducted the world’s first transplant of induced pluripotent stem cells to treat Parkinson’s disease. Nerve cells created from the artificially derived stem cells, known as iPS cells, were transplanted into … Read More
November 12, 2018
(Newsweek) – Scientists have grown beating human heart tissue in a laboratory using stem cells. The engineered tissue could be used as a model of a human atrium (upper chamber), allowing researchers to test out new drugs as part of … Read More
November 8, 2018
(UPI) – Human trials are planned early next year on burn victims after researchers regrew skin in animals up to 30 percent quicker from human burn cells. Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine were the first to … Read More
November 2, 2018
(News Medical) – Skeletal stem cells are of interest to researchers because they are thought to be able to heal bone injuries. However, they are difficult to locate because scientists are unsure what they look like or where they reside. … Read More
November 1, 2018
(iNews) – UCL researchers have been accused of covering up the deaths of two women who died during experimental treatment in a bid to obtain funding. Professors obtained millions of pounds to lead three multi-million pound trials that looked into trialling … Read More
November 1, 2018
(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) – In January 2007, nine years after James Thomson’s discovery, a gloom about human embryonic stem cells had begun to set in, epitomized by a New York Times headline: “Concerns of Dashed Hopes From Promised Miracles.” Today, … Read More
October 30, 2018
(Medscape) – Doctors in the UK say they have taken an important step towards treating a common form of blindness – wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Results of a study published in the journal Nature Biotechnology describe how stem cell … Read More
October 23, 2018
(CNN) – Certain medical fundraising efforts could do more harm than good for some patients. That’s according to a new research letter published in the medical journal JAMA on Tuesday. The paper found that more than 1,000 online medical crowdfunding … Read More
October 22, 2018
(Cardiovascular Business) – Cardiologists and researchers alike are calling for the early halt of a national heart stem cell trial after Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital expressed concern earlier this week that some of the work the … Read More
October 18, 2018
(STAT News) – For the first time, the Federal Trade Commission has cracked down on stem cell clinics for overzealous marketing claims, filing a complaint against two California clinics that promoted their treatments for everything from autism to Parkinson’s despite … Read More
October 18, 2018
(News Medical) – Research scientists around the world are now able to investigate the structural, cellular, and developmental intricacies of the human brain using bioengineered stem cell-based models called organoids. But the ethics to help guide researchers and regulators lag … Read More
October 17, 2018
(Medscape) – More very encouraging data on the use of autologous stem cell transplant in multiple sclerosis (MS) have been presented. There was no evidence of disease activity post transplant in patients who previously had extremely aggressive disease. The case … Read More
October 16, 2018
(The Guardian) – If eggs and thus IVF embryos could be produced easily and in large numbers, says Greely, that could change the landscape of assisted conception when combined with the option of genetic screening. This can be done ever … Read More
October 15, 2018
(Nature) – For the first time, researchers have used the DNA from two mouse mothers to create healthy pups, some of which matured and had their own offspring. The scientists also produced baby mice using the combined genetic material from … Read More
October 15, 2018
(STAT News) – Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have recommended that 31 papers from a former lab director be retracted from medical journals. The papers from the lab of Dr. Piero Anversa, who studied cardiac stem cells, … Read More
October 11, 2018
(Discover Magazine) – Chinese researchers have created healthy mice from two biological moms for the first time. The pups grew to adulthood and even went on to have normal offspring of their own, scientists announced today in the journal Cell … Read More
October 1, 2018
(Gizmodo) – Doctors selling dubious stem cell treatments isn’t just a problem in the U.S., suggests a new study published in Regenerative Medicine. Clinics in Canada are also marketing these treatments directly to consumers, the study found, and seemingly misleading … Read More
September 27, 2018
(Nature) – Blood-cell lineages and the endothelial cells that line the interior of blood vessels have an intertwined biology and interrelated embryonic origins. Our current knowledge indicates that endothelial cells differentiate directly from one of the three main cell layers … Read More
September 26, 2018
(Nature) – Various populations of cells in the adult human body have been the subject of controversy since the early 2000s. Contradictory findings about these haphazardly termed ‘mesenchymal stem cells’, including their origins, developmental potential, biological functions and possible therapeutic … Read More
September 25, 2018
(Scientific American) – They are called brain spheroids (or three-dimensional brain cultures or cerebral organoids) and are a relatively new creation. They were first described in a splashy study published in Nature in 2013 and are one of the most … Read More
September 24, 2018
(San Francisco Chronicle) – Federal authorities unveiled plans Thursday to clamp down on misuse of a government-run database of clinical trials that for-profit clinics — many of them selling unproven stem cell therapies — use as a marketing tool to … Read More
