Genetics
Test run finds no cancer risk from stem cell therapy
Therapeutic stem cells can be made without introducing genetic changes that could later lead to cancer, a study in PLOS Genetics has found.
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Oncology & Cancer
The perfect match might be the imperfect one, when it comes to treating blood cancers
Bone marrow transplantation is a life-saving therapy for many patients with blood cancers like leukemias and lymphomas. Currently, the gold standard blood-generating stem cells are obtained from a donor, a sibling, with a ...
Oct 7, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Discovery offers hope for treating leukemia relapse post-transplant
Targeting exhausted immune cells may change the prognosis for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) relapse after a stem cell transplant, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
Sep 10, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Genetic variant ups risk of graft-versus-host disease in HSCT
(HealthDay)—The risk of acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation with HLA-DPB1 mismatching is influenced by the HLA-DPB1 rs9277534 expression marker, according to a study published ...
Aug 14, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Certain donors with high T cell counts make better match for stem-cell transplant patients
Using a simple blood test to measure the T lymphocyte count in donors for stem cell transplants may help identify the best match for patients in need of an allogeneic stem cell transplant, suggests a new study in the Journal ...
Jun 8, 2015
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Medical research
Depletion of naive T cells from stem cell grafts limits chronic graft-versus host disease
Stem cell transplantation is used to treat hematologic malignancies, such as leukemia. Patients that receive donor cells are at risk of developing graft-versus host disease (GVHD). This potentially fatal complication results ...
Jun 8, 2015
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Medical research
Rabbit virus improves bone marrow transplants, kills some cancer cells
University of Florida Health researchers have discovered that a rabbit virus can deliver a one-two punch, killing some kinds of cancer cells while eliminating a common and dangerous complication of bone marrow transplants.
Jun 5, 2015
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Medical research
Wisdom teeth stem cells can transform into cells that could treat corneal scarring
Stem cells from the dental pulp of wisdom teeth can be coaxed to turn into cells of the eye's cornea and could one day be used to repair corneal scarring due to infection or injury, according to researchers at the University ...
Feb 23, 2015
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Cardiology
Spain uses stem cell therapy to treat damaged hearts
A Spanish hospital has successfully used stem cells culled from healthy donors to treat seven heart attack victims, in what officials said was a world first.
Jan 30, 2015
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HIV & AIDS
Stem cell transplant does not cure SHIV/AIDS after irradiation of infected rhesus macaques
A study published on September 25th in PLOS Pathogens reports a new primate model to test treatments that might cure HIV/AIDS and suggests answers to questions raised by the "Berlin patient", the only human thought to have ...
Sep 25, 2014
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