May 9, 2018
(Undark) – In the United States, the clock is ticking for more than 114,700 adults and children waiting for a donated kidney or other lifesaving organ, and each day, nearly 20 of them die. Researchers are devising a new way … Read More
May 8, 2018
(Medical Xpress) – They’re the tech-age version of donor jars at the diner: crowdfunding websites that aim to link ailing people with strangers willing to help pay for medical treatment. But new research suggests duped patients sometimes crowdfund to pay … Read More
May 7, 2018
(News Medical) – The human nervous system is a complex structure that sends electrical signals from the brain to the rest of the body, enabling us to move and think. Unfortunately, when brain cells are damaged by trauma or disease … Read More
May 7, 2018
(CNBC) – Start-up investor Li Jiang just turned 30, and now he can’t stop thinking about his own mortality. For Jiang, who’s based in San Francisco, living longer isn’t just about eating healthy and exercising regularly. Last month, he cryogenically … Read More
May 4, 2018
(Nature) – Research using human embryos and embryonic stem cells draws intense ethical scrutiny and places demands on scientists, funders and journals to follow the relevant regulations. As a publisher of such work, Nature and the Nature journals take this … Read More
May 3, 2018
(Yomiuri Shimbun) – The nation’s first clinical trial to transplant embryonic stem (ES) cells into a patient began at the National Center for Child Health and Development (NCCHD) in Tokyo on April 30. ES cells, derived from early-stage embryos, are … Read More
May 3, 2018
(BBC) – Dutch scientists have built “synthetic” embryos in their laboratory using mouse cells other than sperm and eggs. The stem cell breakthrough, described in Nature journal, is not for cloning people or animals, but about understanding why many pregnancies … Read More
April 30, 2018
(The Washington Post) – Hidden in that fat were stem cells with the amazing power to heal, the Stem Cell Center of Georgia had told Tyler. The clinic is one of hundreds that have popped up across the country, many … Read More
April 30, 2018
(Science) – Paolo Macchiarini, an Italian surgeon, has been fired from two institutions and faces the retraction of many of his papers after findings of scientific misconduct and ethical lapses in his research—yet this hasn’t prevented him from publishing again … Read More
April 30, 2018
(CNN) – On February 22, 2016 in Jupiter, Florida, Jack Nicklaus teed off at his famous fundraiser, The Jake, to benefit children’s health. While he wowed the crowd, as the Golden Bear has been doing for five decades, none of … Read More
April 25, 2018
(News Medical) – The study, which was conducted by scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, provides a tool for mapping the role of all human genes. Senior author Nissim Benvenisty and colleagues were able to analyse almost all genes … Read More
April 24, 2018
(Medical Xpess) – Donor age does not appear to influence the functionality of stem cells derived from adult body tissues, concludes a new review. The analysis of research on induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) finds that not only are typical … Read More
April 24, 2018
(BBC) – Scientists say they are “excited” by the results of a gene therapy trial for the inherited blood disorder beta-thalassaemia, which reduced the need for blood transfusions. In 22 patients, blood stem cells were extracted, treated and re-introduced to … Read More
April 20, 2018
(Swiss Info) – Scientists at the University Hospital of Basel have produced joint cartilage from bone marrow stem cells by preventing them from becoming bone tissue. Under normal conditions the mesenchymal stem/stromal cells from the bone marrow of adults develop … Read More
April 18, 2018
(Medical Xpress) – As scientists try to find early therapy options to fight degenerative disc disease, there has been considerable interest in harnessing stem cells to restore nucleus pulposus, or NP. Previous research shows human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs)—generated … Read More
April 18, 2018
(BBC) – With advances in stem cell research and nanotechnology helping us fight illnesses from heart disease to superbugs, is the fusion of biology and technology speeding us towards a sci-fi future – part human, part synthetic? In Ridley Scott’s … Read More
April 13, 2018
(STAT News) – When someone experiences a severe head injury, it’s not just the initial blow that batters the brain. The body’s immune response can go haywire, overwhelming and sometimes continuing to damage the brain for months. Surgeons at Houston’s … Read More
April 11, 2018
(Newsweek) – Scientists in California successfully changed a protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease into a more harmless form, allowing them to erase brain cell damage. The breakthrough is especially important because the research was not conducted on mice but rather … Read More
April 5, 2018
(MIT Technology Review) – An eye implant made of a thin sheet of human embryonic stem cells might be an effective treatment for a common form of vision loss. Researchers at the University of Southern California grew stem-cell membranes in … Read More
April 4, 2018
(South China Morning Post) – The Hong Kong government on Tuesday moved a step closer to regulating stem cell treatment and other “advanced therapy” products in the city as it launched a two-month consultation following recent cases of serious blunders … Read More
April 3, 2018
(Wired) – Neural organoids don’t yet, even remotely, resemble adult brains; developmentally, they’re just pushing second trimester tissue organization. But the way Ben Waldau sees it, brain balls might be the best chance his stroke patients have at making a … Read More
April 2, 2018
(The Guardian) – Still, it’s a “brain” after a fashion and it’s made from me. From a piece of my arm, to be precise. I’m not going to pretend this isn’t strange. But neither is it an exercise in gratuitously … Read More
April 2, 2018
(The Japan Times) – A medical institution has applied for permission to carry out a clinical trial that will attempt to use embryonic stem cells to treat babies with a severe liver condition, which would be a first for Japan. … Read More
March 30, 2018
(Science Magazine) – But is the idea underlying Macchiarini’s work—”seeding” a scaffold with a patient’s own stem cells, in hopes of regenerating a healthy, functional organ—still worth testing in patients? That’s the question facing scientists in the United Kingdom, where … Read More
March 27, 2018
(Wired) – We are now on the brink of another revolution in reproduction, one that could make IVF look quaint. Through an emerging technology called in vitro gametogenesis (or IVG), scientists are learning how to convert adult human cells—taken perhaps … Read More
