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
March 26, 2018
(The Scientist) – A pharmaceutical company based in Osaka, Japan, opened a regenerative medicine center yesterday (March 22) that will produce cells derived from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells for commercial applications. The center is the first plant of its … Read More
March 23, 2018
(BBC) – The results of an international trial show stem cell transplants can vastly improve the lives of some people with multiple sclerosis. The gruelling treatment involves wiping out a patient’s faulty immune system with drugs used to treat cancer … Read More
March 20, 2018
(Nature) – Dieter Egli was just about to start graduate school in 1998 when researchers first worked out how to derive human embryonic stem cells. In the two decades since, the prolific cells have been a fixture of his career. … Read More
March 20, 2018
(BBC) – Doctors say a stem cell transplant could be a “game changer” for many patients with multiple sclerosis. Results from an international trial show that it was able to stop the disease and improve symptoms. It involves wiping out … Read More
March 19, 2018
(Los Angeles Times) – Sexual performance appears to be a new frontier for the stem-cell promoters. But it wouldn’t be surprising that they see it as a potential gold mine. U.S. Stem Cell, the Florida company that performed Greenfield’s liposuction … Read More
March 16, 2018
(Retraction Watch) – Two stem cell scientists who left Harvard University in the aftermath of a messy misconduct investigation may have found new roles in Italy’s National Institute of Health. According to a document on the institute’s website, which we had … Read More
March 12, 2018
(CNN) – Just months after the US Food and Drug Administration announced efforts to crack down on stem cell clinics touting unapproved therapies, the agency now plans to help expedite the development of stem cell therapies proved to be safe … Read More
March 8, 2018
(U.S. News & World Report) – Stem cell clinics are charging big money for knee arthritis “cures” and making extravagant claims about their therapies, a new study contends. A same-day injection for one knee costs thousands of dollars at these … Read More
March 6, 2018
(PhysOrg) – Researchers led by Dr. Knut Woltjen report a new gene editing method that can modify a single DNA base in the human genome with absolute precision. The technique, which is described in Nature Communications, is unique in that … Read More
March 1, 2018
(The Conversation) – In 2006, Nature published a paper describing how stem cells could be used to restore sight in blind mice. This study, and similar subsequent studies, created a lot of excitement about the potential of stem cells to … Read More
February 28, 2018
(Scientific American) – But last year San Diego–based researchers uncovered new details about how lithium may alter moods, thanks to an approach recently championed by a small number of scientists studying mental illness: The San Diego team used established lab … Read More
February 27, 2018
(Eurekalert) – Led by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, a diverse team of neuroscientists and surgeons successfully grafted human neural progenitor cells into rhesus monkeys with spinal cord injuries. The grafts not only survived, but … Read More
February 26, 2018
(China.org.cn) – This was the world’s first successful clinical trial of autologous lung stem cell transplantation. The process and results of the research were published in the science journal Protein & Cell on Jan. 17. Two non-smoking male patients with … Read More
February 26, 2018
Last spring, MIT Technology Review reported on a University of Michigan team’s discovery that they had made an embryo-like entity from human embryonic stem cells. The team was trying to make organoids—small three-dimensional clusters of cells grown in the lab … Read More
February 23, 2018
(BBC) – Scientists have been able to predict how cancer patients will respond to therapy by growing miniature versions of their tumours in the laboratory. They say the groundbreaking work could lead to “smarter, kinder and more effective treatments”. The … Read More
February 23, 2018
(Reuters) – Nearly 70 percent of children with potentially fatal acute Graft Versus Host Disease responded to treatment with an experimental stem cell therapy from Mesoblast Ltd, meeting the primary goal of a late-stage U.S. trial, the Australian company announced … Read More
February 22, 2018
(The Scientist) – For cancer patients with just months to live, time is short—too short to try drug after drug with the hope of finding one that slows the disease. But lab-grown mini tumors derived from patients’ cells could offer … Read More
February 20, 2018
(Science Daily) – Allogeneic blood or marrow transplantation recipients are at a significantly higher risk of cognitive impairment in the years post-transplantation, according to a new study. The research helps add a missing piece to a long-unsolved puzzle about post-transplant … Read More
February 16, 2018
(News-Medical) – The proper function of blood vessels is essential to life: blood vessels are responsible for transporting oxygen-rich red blood cells, nutrients, and immune cells throughout the body, to name just a few functions. Defects in blood vessels can … Read More
