Pluripotent Stem Cells Derive From Adult Human Testes
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April 18, 2009
With a relatively simple process, pluripotent stem cells can be derived from adult human testis tissue, according to a report issued online March 22 by the journal Stem Cells and Development. ...[read article]
The Influence of Sex on the Chrondrogenic Potential of Muscle-Derived Stem Cells
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April 09, 2009
Joint cartilage damage that occurs with conditions such as osteoarthritis (OA) is difficult to treat because cartilage lacks blood, nerve and lymph supplies and has a limited capacity to repair itself. The only widely accepted treatment for this type of damage is total knee replacement ...[read article]
Stem Cells And Oxygen Therapy Show Promise In Treating Diabetes
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March 21, 2009
The growing epidemic of diabetes in the United States is making it crucial for scientists to find new ways to treat the debilitating disease and its numerous complications. New research just published by investigators from the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Stem Cell ...[read article]
Stem Cells Crucial To Diabetes Cure In Mice
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March 21, 2009
More than five years ago, Dr. Lawrence C.B. Chan and colleagues in his Baylor College of Medicine laboratory cured mice with type 1 diabetes by using a gene to induce liver cells to make insulin...[read article]
Stem Cells Could Halt Osteoporosis, Promote Bone Growth - New Pathway That Controls Bone Remodelling
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March 21, 2009
While interferon gamma sounds like an outer space weapon, it's actually a hormone produced by our own bodies, and it holds great promise to repair bones affected by osteoporosis. In a new study published in the journal Stem Cells, researchers from the Aging Bone Research Program ...[read article]
Protein That Controls Access To Genes Plays An Important Role In Embryonic Skin Stem Cells
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March 21, 2009
Not all stem cells are completely blank slates. Some, known as adult stem cells, have already partially embraced their fates, and are capable of becoming only cells of a particular type of tissue. So how do these tissue-specific stem cells restrict their fate? In research to appear in the March 20 issue of Cell, scientists at Rockefeller University have uncovered a gene control mechanism that guides the...[read article]
Stem-Cell Therapy May Resolve Ulcers Associated With Scleroderma
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March 13, 2009
Stem cells are at the center of a new therapeutic approach to treating skin manifestations of scleroderma. Preliminary results from 3 patients were presented here at the American Academy of Dermatology 67th Annual Meeting. The procedure was ...[read article]
Calif., New York May Benefit From Stem Cell Move
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March 11, 2009
California, New York and other states that funded human embryonic stem cell research after federal money was restricted in 2001 may be first to benefit from the end to those limits, experts said on Monday ...[read article]
Encouraging Stem Cell Research Published
The study, reported in the Lancet Neurology, involved 21 ...
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FEB 25, 2009
Researchers in America have reported encouraging results from a trial treating people with MS with stem cells derived from their bone marrow. The study, reported in the Lancet Neurology, involved 21 ...
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Animal Eggs Not Suitable Substitutes To Produce Stem Cells
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FEB 24, 2009
Since the cloning of Dolly the Sheep over a decade ago, somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) has been considered a promising way to generate human, patient-specific stem cells for therapeutic applications ...[read article]
Scientists Reverse Early MS With Patients' Own Stem Cells
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FEB 23, 2009
A small trial at a US hospital where patients with early stage MS had their own immune system stem cells transplanted back into their bodies appears to have reversed the neurological ...[read article]
Stem Cells Used To Reverse Paralysis In Animals
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FEB 21, 2009
A new study has found that transplantation of stem cells from the lining of the spinal cord, called ependymal stem cells, reverses paralysis associated with spinal cord injuries in laboratory tests..[read article]
New Stem Cells Help Body Repair Itself
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FEB 20, 2009
UK scientists have discovered a way of fooling bone marrow into making extra adult stem cells, opening the door to new treatments that stimulate the body to produce its own repair kit of stem cells to mend damaged heart tissue or even a broken bone ...[read article]
Can Stem-cell Therapy Help Stroke Patients?
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FEB 17, 2009
Scientists in Glasgow, Scotland, will try to find out whether injecting cells developed from human fetuses into the brains of patients who have had a stroke might help them. If the stem cells can help the brain regenerate areas damaged by their stroke, patients would then hopefully regain their mobility and mental function....[read article]
FDA Stem Cell Approval Breakthrough Laudable
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FEB 15, 2009
FDA announced approval for the first clinical trials on humans using Embryonic Stem Cells but Adult Stem Cell scientist Christian Drapeau says the experts may not be telling the whole story; Adult Stem Cells have greater potential with less risk...[read article]
Christopher And Dana Reeve Foundation Response To FDA Clearance Of Geron's Clinical Trial
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FEB 12, 2009
Peter T. Wilderotter, president and CEO of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, issued the following statement in response to FDA clearance of Geron's human clinical trial of embryonic stem cell-based therapy:...[read article]
Bone Marrow Stem Cells Used To Regenerate Skin
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FEB 6, 2009
A new study suggests that adult bone marrow stem cells can be used in the construction of artificial skin. The findings mark an advancement in wound healing and may be used to pioneer a method of organ reconstruction. Th..[read article]
