February 2, 2017
(New Scientist) – A CLINIC claims it has used stem cells to treat Down’s syndrome in up to 14 people. “As far as we know, it’s the first time that stem cells have been used to treat Down’s syndrome,” says … Read More
February 1, 2017
(Science Daily) – Rice University researchers have synthesized a new and greatly improved generation of contrast agents for tagging and real-time tracking of stem cells in the body. The agent combines ultrashort carbon nanotubes and bismuth clusters that show up … Read More
February 1, 2017
(News-Medical) – A 39-year-old man with cystic fibrosis (CF) made history by becoming the first person to receive human adult stem cells in a new research study that researchers hope will someday lead to the development of a therapy to … Read More
January 30, 2017
(The Australian) – Mackay-Sim has done very valuable work on the use of nasal stem cells in spinal cord injury. He was the pioneer in this country in the use of adult stem cells and proved that they were safe … Read More
January 30, 2017
(STAT News) – Pig embryos that had been injected with human stem cells when they were only a few days old began to grow organs containing human cells, scientists reported on Thursday, an advance that promises — or threatens — to … Read More
January 27, 2017
(UPI) – Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have successfully generated mature heart muscle cells using stem cells. The mature heart muscle cells were created by implanting stem cells from a healthy adult or one with a type … Read More
January 27, 2017
(Science) – The controversial idea of growing human organs in host animals has gotten a reality check. Despite recent successes at growing mouse organs in rats, using the same trick to grow human organs in larger animals such as pigs … Read More
January 26, 2017
(STAT News) – I’m worried about a new paper in the journal Cell that details the creation of a human-pig chimera. As a neuroscientist, I appreciate groundbreaking research at a purely scientific level and understand the hard work that goes … Read More
January 26, 2017
(UPI) – It might sound like science fiction, but researchers have successfully used human stem cells to create embryos that are part-human, part-pig. Scientists said the long-range goal is to better understand and treat an array of human diseases. The … Read More
January 25, 2017
(News-Medical) – A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has developed a new method of repairing injured bone using stem cells from human bone marrow and a carbon material with photocatalytic properties, which could lead to powerful treatments for skeletal system … Read More
January 23, 2017
(San Diego Union Tribune) – Stem cells with characteristics of totipotency — capable of creating all the tissue types needed to build and sustain an embryo — have been created in mice by a California-led research team. Researchers found that … Read More
January 20, 2017
(STAT News) – It’s been more than a decade since California launched an unprecedented experiment in medical research by direct democracy, when voters created a $3 billion fund to kick-start the hunt for stem cell therapies. The bold plan, a … Read More
January 20, 2017
(Medical Xpress) – Scientists at the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) are creating an induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-based research library that opens the door to invaluable sickle … Read More
January 17, 2017
(New York Times) – The breakthrough sidestepped the embryo controversy, offering researchers an unlimited supply of stem cells. Dr. Yamanaka shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for reprogramming mature cells into what are now called induced pluripotent … Read More
January 16, 2017
(Japan Times) – A Japanese research team says it has successfully produced from human cells miniature bowels that can make the muscular movements needed to transport food through the digestive tract — just like natural intestines. The bowels, no larger … Read More
January 13, 2017
(The Guardian) – A new lab procedure that could allow fertility clinics to make sperm and eggs from people’s skin may lead to “embryo farming” on a massive scale and drive parents to have only “ideal” future children, researchers warn. … Read More
January 4, 2017
(Science Daily) – Scientists have used pluripotent stem cells to generate human stomach tissues in a Petri dish that produce acid and digestive enzymes. They grew tissues from the stomach’s corpus/fundus region. The study comes two years after the same … Read More
January 3, 2017
(Smithsonian) – Now, a team of researchers from the U.S. and U.K. are aiming to change that. Inspired by the earmouse, doctors at the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Regenerative Medicine have … Read More
January 3, 2017
New Genetics and Society (vol. 35, no. 4, 2016) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Redrawing the Boundary of Medical Expertise: Medically Assisted Reproduction and the Debate on Italian Bioconstitutionalism” by Volha Parfenchyk “In Search of Lost Time: Age … Read More
December 28, 2016
(UPI) – Scientists have developed a technology to control mesenchymal stem cells or MSCs, in an effort to fight cancer cells in the body. Researchers from Tomsk Polytechnic University’s Laboratory of Novel Dosage are using a patient’s own magnetic stem … Read More
December 28, 2016
(Medical Xpress) – Researchers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University have developed a synthetic version of a cardiac stem cell. These synthetic stem cells offer therapeutic … Read More
December 27, 2016
(STAT News) – One of the highest-profile researchers in diabetes has retracted a paper once heralded as a breakthrough, following multiple failed attempts to reproduce its headline-grabbing results. The retraction ends three years of debate over whether a discovery by … Read More
December 26, 2016
(Medical Daily) – Having a good model of the human brain enables scientists to investigate neurological disorders, find out more about brain development and function, and, perhaps in the future, even test experimental drugs before they enter the clinical trial … Read More
December 23, 2016
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 375, no. 22, 2016) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Clarifying Stem-Cell Therapy’s Benefits and Risks” by P.W. Marks, C.M. Witten, and R.M. Califf “Use of a Vaginal Ring Containing Dapivirine … Read More
December 22, 2016
(Medical Xpress) – In a first-in-children randomized clinical study, medical researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) and the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute (ISCI) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have begun testing … Read More
