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Not all stem cells are equally efficient for use in regenerative medicine

Scientists at the University of Granada and Alcalá de Henares University have found out that not all isolated stem cells are equally valid in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. In a paper recently published in ...

Medical research created Jan 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pre-transplant umbilical cord blood expansion speeds establishment of new blood supply in patients

Donated umbilical cord blood establishes a new blood supply in patients more quickly after transplantation when it is first expanded in the lab on a bed of cells that mimics conditions in the bone marrow, researchers report ...

Medical research created Dec 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study reveals insights that could aid in therapeutic use of mesenchymal stem cells

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), are a newly emerging cellular therapy being tested in approximately 250 clinical trials worldwide to help repair damaged tissues, such as injured heart muscle following a heart attack. The problem ...

Medical research created Nov 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Duke research team identifies a potent growth factor for blood stem cells

Duke Medicine researchers studying the interaction of blood stem cells and the niche where they reside have identified a protein that may be a long-sought growth factor for blood stem cells.

Medical research created Oct 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Could stem cells treat autism? Newly approved study may tell

(HealthDay)—Autism researchers have been given the go-ahead by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to launch a small study in children with autism that evaluates whether a child's own umbilical cord blood ...

Autism spectrum disorders created Oct 12, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

FDA approves DUCORD product for stem cell transplants

Duke University School of Medicine has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to market DUCORD, a stem cell product derived from umbilical cord blood, for use in transplants between unrelated donors and recipients.

Medical research created Oct 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blood vessel forming potential of stem cells from human placenta and umbilical cord blood

A study comparing whether endothelial colony-forming cells (ECFCs) derived from human placenta or those derived from human umbilical cord blood are more proliferative and better for forming new blood vessels has found that ...

Medical research created Jul 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research reveals development of the glial cell

A vast majority of cells in the brain are glial, yet our understanding of how they are generated, a process called gliogenesis, has remained enigmatic. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have identified a novel transcripitonal ...

Neuroscience created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

US begins stem cell trial for hearing loss

US researchers have begun a groundbreaking trial to test the potential of umbilical cord blood transplants, a kind of stem cell therapy, to treat and possibly reverse hearing loss in infants.

Medical research created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Stem cell therapy reverses diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is caused by the body's own immune system attacking its pancreatic islet beta cells and requires daily injections of insulin to regulate the patient's blood glucose levels. A new method described in BioMed ...

Medical research created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Researchers say therapy improves stem cell engraftment in umbilical cord blood transplant recipients

A therapy involving a natural compound may improve the ability of stem cells from umbilical cord blood to engraft in patients receiving a stem cell transplant for cancer or other diseases, a phase I clinical trial led by ...

Medical research created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study points to novel way to improve outcomes from umbilical cord blood transplants

A new method to boost the number of immune cells in umbilical cord blood prior to cord blood transplants for cancer patients appears to lead to a quicker rebuilding of a new immune system in the patient's body than with a ...

Cancer created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Advances in delivery of therapeutic genes to treat brain tumors

Novel tools and methods for delivering therapeutic genes to cells in the central nervous system hold great promise for the development of new treatments to combat incurable neurologic diseases. Five of the ...

Genetics created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Device could improve harvest of stem cells from umbilical cord blood

Johns Hopkins graduate students have invented a system to significantly boost the number of stem cells collected from a newborn's umbilical cord and placenta, so that many more patients with leukemia, lymphoma ...

Medical research created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Enhanced cord blood stem cell transplants safe in long-term studies

(Medical Xpress) -- An innovative experimental treatment for boosting the effectiveness of stem-cell transplants with umbilical cord blood has a favorable safety profile in long-term animal studies, report ...

Medications created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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