October 12, 2016
(Eurekalert) – Stem cells hold great promise for transforming medical care related to a diverse range of conditions, but the cells often lose some of their therapeutic potential when scientists try to grow and expand them in the laboratory. A … Read More
October 5, 2016
(Science Daily) – An international collaboration of government, university, and industry resources showed the promise of using RNA as a safe way to both make and modify induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) from patient cells for clinical applications in regenerative … Read More
October 4, 2016
(Medical News Today) – Last year, a controversial study suggested the majority of cancer cases are down to “bad luck” – that is, random DNA mutations in adult stem cells that are not caused by lifestyle factors. A new study … Read More
September 30, 2016
(Medscape) – Local injection of mesenchymal stem cells derived from autologous bone marrow shows promise in healing recalcitrant neuropathic diabetic foot ulcers, a novel study from Egypt shows. Presenting the results at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes … Read More
September 27, 2016
(News-Medical) – Researchers have demonstrated the ability to deliver a fully functional copy of the CLN3 gene to stem cells of patients with juvenile NCL, an inherited neurodegenerative disease in which a mutation in the CLN3 gene causes early-onset severe … Read More
September 22, 2016
(Scientific American) – The FDA notes the revised guidelines are meant to help manufacturers navigate regulations that are already in place. But many interpret them as a crackdown on clinics offering patients experimental procedures. “It is possible that after these … Read More
September 20, 2016
(Wired) – Human chimeras are mixtures of human cells with rodent, pig, or other animal embryos. It is important to note that this research does not directly use human embryos or fetuses, instead relying on pluripotent stem cells, which can … Read More
September 16, 2016
(U.S. News & World Report) – Scientists report they have successfully transplanted reprogrammed monkey stem cells into the eyes of other monkeys without the need for anti-rejection drugs. The techniques used in this study have been in development for some … Read More
September 14, 2016
(MIT Technology Review) – A company that stepped in to salvage the first-ever medical use of human embryonic stem cells says it has encouraging results in patients with spinal-cord injury. Today, Asterias Biotherapeutics, the company in Fremont, California, that’s developing the … Read More
September 14, 2016
(Washington Post) – A cross-ideological group of ethicists recently signed a powerful public letter opposing the proposed federal regulation banning the sale of hematopoietic stem cells, used in bone marrow transplantation. These cells are used in the treatment of patients … Read More
September 13, 2016
(BBC) – Scientists say early experiments suggest it may one day be possible to make babies without using eggs. They have succeeded in creating healthy baby mice by tricking sperm into believing they were fertilising normal eggs. The findings in … Read More
September 12, 2016
(STAT News) – Scientists on Monday will urge the Food and Drug Administration to crack down on rogue clinics across the country that market stem cell treatments for a dizzying array of ailments from autism to paralysis to erectile dysfunction. But the move … Read More
September 9, 2016
(Medical News Today) – A 21-year-old man left paralyzed after a spinal cord injury has regained the use of his arms and hands, thanks to an experimental stem cell treatment performed by researchers from the Keck Medical Center at the … Read More
September 7, 2016
(Nature) – By the time Albini, an ophthalmologist at the University of Miami in Florida, had treated two more women who had been blinded by the same procedure, he knew that there was a systemic problem. Two of the women … Read More
September 6, 2016
(The Washington Post) – What eventually saved her, though, was an experimental transplant using stem cells from the blood of a baby’s umbilical cord, an approach that can be used without perfectly matching blood types. This therapy and another — … Read More
September 6, 2016
(NPR) – Hundreds of clinics around the country are offering to treat a long list of health problems with stem cells. The clinics claim that stem cells found in fat tissue, blood, bone marrow and even placentas can help people … Read More
September 6, 2016
Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy (vol. 19, no. 3, 2016) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “On Prenatal Diagnosis and the Decision to Continue or Terminate a Pregnancy in France: A Clinical Ethics Study of Unknown Moral Territories” … Read More
September 5, 2016
(Med Page Today) – Intravenous infusion of mesenchymal stem cells failed to improve cardiac function in heart failure patients but the treatment did appear to give patients some benefits such as improvement in physical tests, researchers said here. “There was … Read More
September 5, 2016
New Genetics and Society (vol. 35, no. 3, 2016) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Private, the Public and the Hybrid in Umbilical Cord Blood Banking – a global perspective” by Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkener & Hung-Chieh Chang “Hybrid Practices … Read More
September 2, 2016
(UPI) – Stem cell transplants are a key treatment for blood cancers, but researchers found that for some patients it may age their immune cells by as much as 30 years. Researchers at the University of North Carolina found blood … Read More
September 2, 2016
(Science) – The Karolinska University Hospital and the Karolinska Institute (KI) in Stockholm ignored warning signs when they hired surgeon Paolo Macchiarini in 2010, an independent panel concluded this week. The investigation was commissioned by the hospital’s director in the wake … Read More
August 31, 2016
(UPI) – Many end-stage liver disease patients die because of a shortage of donor organs, and those who do receive livers have challenging paths because of immunosuppressive drugs, but researchers may have found an effective method for growing new liver … Read More
August 30, 2016
(Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News) – The recent regulatory approval of the first hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell gene therapy (HSPC-GT) signals the start of a new era for gene therapy and highlights the potential contribution by high-throughput cell culture … Read More
August 30, 2016
(The Wall Street Journal) – In two days of hearings next month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will consider if clinics offering stem-cell treatments should be more closely regulated. Stem-cell treatments aren’t approved by the FDA and not long … Read More
August 29, 2016
(Med Page Today) – Wide variety in methods for trials of stem cell therapies for heart failure are a big reason for the inconsistent results in the literature, according to a review article. Over the last 20 years, researchers have … Read More
