Two-year-old Hannah Warren lived her whole life in an intensive care unit with a breathing tube. She was born without a windpipe and has been unable to talk, swallow, or eat on her own. Her parents, Darryl and Young-mi Warren were told Hannah would not live past age six.   "Hannah didn't have a...

For nearly two years, University of Michigan neurologist Eva Feldman, M.D., Ph.D. has led the nation's first clinical trial of stem cell injections in patients with the deadly degenerative disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, often called ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. Now, a new approval ...

After a historic three-way deal signed in Amsterdam this week, a ground-breaking Center for Stem Cell Research will be set up in Moscow in 2014 with collaboration between major Dutch and Russian universities. The University Medical Centre Groningen in the Netherlands, the Russian Vavilov Institu...

Are your stem cells not doing what you want them to? Give them a kicking.   That is the new technique developed by a Scottish research team, a technique which could help patients with spinal injuries grow new bone. They call it "nanokicking". It plays on the potential our bodies' stem cells poss...

A team of researchers at The New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute led by Scott Noggle, PhD, Director of the NYSCF Laboratory and the NYSCF -- Charles Evans Senior Research Fellow for Alzheimer's Disease, and Michael W. Nestor, PhD, a NYSCF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, has developed a te...

Preparations are underway for the first known human trial to use embryonic-like stem cells collected from adult cells to grow bone. The cells technology, called VSEL stem cells, or very small embryonic-like stem cells, are derived from adults -- not fetuses. This eliminates ethical arguments and po...

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Scientists have developed a new method of replacing missing teeth with a bioengineered material generated from a person's own gum cells. Current implant-based methods of whole tooth replacement fail to reproduce a natural root structure and as a consequence of the friction from eating and other jaw ...

Cold Spring Harbor, NY – In collaboration with colleagues at Cornell University, a team of cancerresearchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has discovered cells with stem-cell properties in the ovary that can mutate to form tumors. The team demonstrated that when two important tumor su...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota’s Lillehei Heart Institute are about to discover a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy with the use of stem cells. The results of serial experiments on rats conducted so far are promising and it is likely that in the future this debilitating, lethal, mus...

To their surprise, UC San Francisco researchers have discovered a new type of cell in women's breast tissue that might one day be used to heal a variety of wounds and damaged organs, without having to destroy embryos to acquire stem cells. The newly discovered cells act similarly to embryonic stem ...

To their surprise, UC San Francisco researchers have discovered a new type of cell in women's breast tissue that might one day be used to heal a variety of wounds and damaged organs, without having to destroy embryos to acquire stem cells. The newly discovered cells act similarly to embryonic stem ...

The Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry has been proceeding with a plan to create the system by granting production approval at an earlier stage, a key pillar of the plan. The government has so far approved only two regenerative medicine products--one for the reproduction of new skin to repair seve...

For decades scientists around the world have attempted to regenerate primary liver cells known as hepatocytes because of their numerous biomedical applications, including hepatitis research, drug metabolism and toxicity studies, as well as transplantation for cirrhosis and other chronic liver condit...

Scientists at Queen's University Belfast are hoping to develop a novel approach that could save the sight of millions of diabetes sufferers using adult stem cells. Currently millions of diabetics worldwide are at risk of sight loss due to a condition called Diabetic Retinopathy. This is when high b...

Muscle stem cells can be made to produce a type of good fat in the body that helps burn energy, according to ground-breaking Canadian research that may one day lead to a treatment for obesity. Researchers at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute are the first to discover that adult muscle stem cel...

The first clinical trials of a revolutionary approach to treating multiple sclerosis with stem cells derived from the patient’s own skin could begin soon following research showing that it works well on laboratory mice, scientists said. A study has for the first time found that human skin cells c...

Artificial bone, created using stem cells and a new lightweight plastic, could soon be used to heal shattered limbs. Scientists at the Universities of Edinburgh and Southampton are developing the use of bone stem cells combined with a degradable rigid material that inserts into broken bones and enc...

Scientists at the Monell Center have identified the location and certain genetic characteristics of taste stem cells on the tongue. The findings will facilitate techniques to grow and manipulate new functional taste cells for both clinical and research purposes. "Cancer patients who have taste loss...

  In findings released in the Clinical Cancer Research journal, University of Manchester scientist Dr Rob Clarke, funded by leading medical research charity Breast Cancer Campaign, has proved for the first time that breast cancer stem cells taken directly from patients can be successfully targeted...

Stem cells given in the vital period immediately after a stroke may aid recovery, suggest researchers. Rats injected with stem cells 30 minutes after a stroke had almost normal brain function restored within a fortnight. The Bolivian research team say the method has potential in human trials. Cur...

Another scientific breakthrough has been achieved involving tissue generation and the use of stem cells. For the very first time, kidney tissue was generated from iPS cells (induced pluripotent stem cells) by a Kyoto University research team led by Kenji Osafune. A report on the accomplishment wa...

A GERM which creates stem cells in the body has been identified by scientists in Scotland in a breakthrough for the treatment of dangerous diseases. The Edinburgh University team discovered the bacteria, which cause leprosy, convert cells in the nerve system so they become like stem cells. These c...

A stem cell transplant success in mice may hold promise for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease. The results of the study were released today and will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 65th Annual Meeting in San Diego, March 16 to 23, 2013. "Th...

Stem cell manufacturing for drug screening and treatments for diseases such as Huntington's and Parkinson's could be boosted by a new method of generating stem cells. Scientists have developed a family of compounds that can support the growth of human embryonic stem cells on a large scale for use i...

Queensland researchers have developed a way to identify breast cancer stem cells suspected of being the trigger for cancer growth. Researchers from Griffith University and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) are working towards making breast cancer stem cells the target of specific ...

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The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research has awarded a three-year, $1.8 million in funding to George Huang, DDS, director of bioscience research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, extending a grant originally received in 2008 to study a stem cell root canal treat...

Radiation and chemotherapy can pack a powerful punch against all kinds of cancers. Those who survive, however, are often left with bad news: Their treatments have rendered them infertile. A UTSA professor has now demonstrated that it is possible to remove testicular stem cells from a monkey prior t...

The California Institute of Regenerative Medicine received a mixture of praise and hard-to-enact recommendations from an august scientific body today. Last summer, CIRM asked the Institute of Medicine to gather a group of experts to assess the stem-cell institute’s performance, which has distribu...

The California Institute of Regenerative Medicine received a mixture of praise and hard-to-enact recommendations from an august scientific body today. Last summer, CIRM asked the Institute of Medicine to gather a group of experts to assess the stem-cell institute’s performance, which has distribu...

Ten drug companies and 23 universities are banding together to create one of the world's largest repositories of adult stem cells, which they aim to use to develop new drugs for difficult-to-treat diseases such as dementia and diabetes. Roche Holding AG and Oxford University are leading the €56...

Engineers at the University of Sheffield have developed a new technique for delivering stem cell therapy to the eye which they hope will help the natural repair of eyes damaged by accident or disease. This could help millions of people across the world retain -- or even regain -- their sight. In re...

A patient's own blood has been used to make personalised stem cells, which doctors hope will eventually be used to treat a range of diseases. The team at the University of Cambridge says this could be one of the easiest and safest sources of stem cells. In a study, published in the journal Stem Ce...

A recent study from researchers at the University of Washington announced a major step forward in the treatment of genetic diseases and specifically in treating Down syndrome patients. Down syndrome occurs when there is an extra copy of chromosome 21 (hence its alternative name, Trisomy 21) in t...

Microscopic particles containing proteins and nucleic acids called exosomes could potentially protect the fragile lungs of premature babies from serious lung diseases and chronic lung injury caused by inflammation, according to new research. The findings explain earlier research suggesting that whi...

The discovery was made by scientists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and provides further evidence that stem cells don’t only occur in the embryo. The ability to produce the hormone insulin is crucial for controlling blood sugar (glucose) levels. In people with type 1 diabetes the...

Scientists have grown fully functional heart muscles by reprogramming stem cells and skin cells from patients. They found that these reprogrammed cells can “reset” the rhythm of any unhealthy heart tissue that is placed around them. The researchers believe that patients suffering from irregular...

For the first time, Wisconsin researchers have taken skin from patients and, using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology, turned them into a laboratory model for an inherited type of macular degeneration. Dr. David Gamm, director of the UW's McPherson Eye Research Institute, said that whi...

Men who lose the ability to produce sperm after chemotherapy might one day be able to regain their fertility. That's because, for the first time, infertility has been reversed in a male primate using an injection of stem cells. Cancer drugs often work by destroying rapidly dividing cells, as these ...

The University of Tokyo fired researcher Hisashi Moriguchi on Friday over his bogus claim that he conducted the world's first clinical trial using a trailblazing stem cell technology, it said. While Moriguchi, 48, earlier claimed that six people with serious heart failure were treated using induced...

A new method of using adult stem cells as a model for the hereditary condition Gaucher disease could help accelerate the discovery of new, more effective therapies for this and other conditions such as Parkinson's, according to new research from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Scient...

It is rumoured that the late Kim Jong-il would inject himself with blood from healthy young virgins in a bid to slow the ageing process. Remarkably, the North Korean dictator might have been onto something. Experiments on mice have shown that it is possible to rejuvenate the brains of old animals ...

Mary Lou Rusco was recovering from four open heart surgeries when she discovered she had Leukemia. Devastated but undaunted, she found new hope in an adult stem cell plant at KU Medical Center in Kansas City. Her story is an inspiration to all who hear it. To watch the video please click here   ...

In a newly planned trial, recently approved by the FDA, researchers will examine whether stem cells obtained through umbilical cord blood at birth may be an effective treatment for children with autism. The 30 children that will participate in the placebo controlled trial, ages 2-7, had umbilical c...

Four boys with a rare and often fatal brain disease were implanted with stem cells that began fixing damage that impeded their ability to walk, talk and eat, a trial found. Twelve months after the surgeries, the boys have more myelin — a fatty insulating protein that coats nerve fibers and speeds...

Two scientists who upended fundamental beliefs about biology by demonstrating that every cell in the body has the potential to grow into every other type of cell have won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Sir John Gurdon and Dr. Shinya Yamanaka were honored Monday for "the discovery that...

Japanese researchers have discovered a potential cure for some forms of infertility by using stem cells to create viable eggs in living mice. While the method, reported in the journal Science, is far from being ready for possible human use, it did overcome a key challenge in reproductive medicine:...

An international team of scientists have identified for the first time a key factor responsible for declining muscle repair during aging, and discovered how to halt the process in mice with a common drug. Although an early study, the findings provide clues as to how muscles lose mass with age, which...

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have discovered that the micro ribonucleic acid miR-214 plays a critical role in regulating ovarian cancer stem cell properties. This knowledge, said the researchers, could pave the way for a therapeutic target for ovarian cancer. The study appears in a recent i...

A magical jab has been developed by a group of scientists at the Imperial College London, which will help to mend the hearts of coronary victims. The study researchers were of the view that the injection has stem cells, which help the heart to recover and help the paramedics to make the patient reac...

Researchers have successfully developed a stable population of neural crest cells derived from mice that can be grown in large quantities in the laboratory and that demonstrates the potential to develop into many different cell types needed throughout the body. This powerful new research tool for u...

Two teams including UC Irvine scientists will receive $37 million to push stem-cell treatments toward human testing – one for a condition that leads to blindness, another for Alzheimer’s disease. The awards, made Wednesday by the state’s stem-cell funding agency, include $17.3 million for a t...

Researchers at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB identify a new stem cell population in the skin epidermis responsible for tissue repair.  The skin, which is an essential barrier that protects our body against the external environment, undergoes constant turnover throughout life to replace d...

New hope was raised yesterday for people left paralysed by injury, after doctors said they had succeeded in using stem cells to restore feeling in two patients. In a world first, doctors at Zurich University said two out of three men who had agreed to take part in an early trial, had regained some ...

UCLA researchers have discovered a type of cell that is the "missing link" between bone marrow stem cells and all the cells of the human immune system, a finding that will lead to a greater understanding of how a healthy immune system is produced and how disease can lead to poor immune function. Th...

Researchers have produced lung cells in the lab using stem cells grown from the skin of patients with cystic fibrosis - a tool they believe can be used to test drugs that might overcome the debilitating, life-shortening condition. In a study published Sunday in Nature Biotechnology, researchers at ...

Knee cartilage will be grown from the patients' own stem cells on a framework known as a "bio-scaffold" implanted into the damaged knee. Scientists hope that the procedure will result in the knee eventually rebuilding itself, leaving the patient more mobile and less at risk of developing painful os...

Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a reliable method to turn the clock back on blood cells, restoring them to a primitive stem cell state from which they can then develop into any other type of cell in the body. The work, described in the Aug. 8 issue of the journal Public Library of Science (...

Families with autistic children must navigate a condition where questions outnumber the answers, and therapies remain sparse and largely ineffective. A clinical trial being conducted by the Sutter Neuroscience Institute in Sacramento, California to address this situation began recruiting partici...

Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) can occur due to sneezing, coughing, exercising or even laughing and happens because the pelvic floor muscles are too weak causing leakage when the bladder is put under pressure. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine shows tha...

A Venice court will this week decide whether to allow controversial stem cell transplants that doctors claim could save the life of a two-year-old girl and 13 other children. The toddler, Celeste Carrer, suffers from muscular atrophy or progressive muscle wastage. In the past 18 months she has had ...

A Toronto research team hopes to make hip and knee replacements a thing of the past as it explores the growth of new human cartilage using stem cells. With an estimated four million Canadians suffering from arthritis, and that number expected to grow to seven million by 2031, doctors are hoping to ...

The world’s first clinical safety trial of a human neural stem cell therapy for stroke patients has been given the go-ahead to progress to its next stage. The PISCES trial is being conducted by the University of Glasgow at the city’s Southern General Hospital in partnership with pharmaceutica...

Duke researchers may have found a promising stem cell therapy for preventing osteoarthritis after a joint injury. Injuring a joint greatly raises the odds of getting a form of osteoarthritis called post-traumatic arthritis, or PTA. There are no therapies yet that modify or slow the progression of a...

A new £8 million centre to be built for stem cell biology and medicine research will be a world leader, say its backers. Two of the UK’s largest funders of medical research are investing the cash to create the Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. It will work ...

A newly-discovered type of stem cell could be the key to higher thinking in humans, research has suggested. Scientists have identified a family of stem cells that may give birth to neurons responsible for abstract thought and creativity. The cells were found in embryonic mice, where they formed th...

In the first human study of its kind, researchers found that using stem cells to re-grow craniofacial tissues mainly bone proved quicker, more effective and less invasive than traditional bone regeneration treatments. Researchers from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry and the Michigan ...

The first child to have pioneering surgery to rebuild his windpipe with his own stem cells is doing well and is back in school. Ciaran Finn-Lynch, who is now 13, had the ground-breaking surgery at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital in 2010.Using Ciaran's own cells meant his immune system would n...

  The HIV virus of two more patients has been suppressed, thanks to a bone marrow transplant, the Boston Globe reported. Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the ‘Berlin patient,’ underwent a bone marrow transplant in 2007 to treat leukemia, using a donor with a rare gene mutation that provides n...

Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute has been awarded a $17.8 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to develop stem cell treatments for patients with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, a progressive, fatal and currently incurable neurodegenerative di...

Adult stem cells extracted during liposuction can be used to grow healthy new small-diameter blood vessels for use in heart bypass surgery and other procedures, according to new research presented at the American Heart Association's Basic Cardiovascular Sciences 2012 Scientific Sessions. Millions o...

Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that a cancer gene linked to aggressive spread of the disease promotes breast cancer stem cells. The finding implies a new way to target the behavior of these lethal cells. The finding involves the cancer gene RhoC, wh...

An international team of researchers led by stem cell scientist Professor Martin Pera has discovered a novel marker that plays an important role in our understanding of how cancer develops in the liver, pancreas and esophagus. The study, published in the journal Stem Cells, adds to our understandin...

AUSTRALIA'S top stem-cell expert has declared a cure for HIV is finally on the way, with human trials planned for two promising techniques that aim to armour the body's immune system against the AIDS virus without the need for lifelong antiviral drugs. Alan Trounson, who was poached in 2007 from hi...

A virus infection Stephanie Connor acquired during pregnancy put her unborn daughter at significant risk for brain damage and lifelong hearing loss. "It was traumatic," said Connor, of LaBelle, Fl, after learning about her daughter's condition. "It was like mourning the loss of a child." At age 1...

Researchers have taken a step toward personalized medicine for Parkinson's disease, by investigating signs of the disease in patient-derived cells and testing how the cells respond to drug treatments. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health.  The researchers collected skin cell...

A chance for the “wealthy well” to boost their chances of surviving cancer and other diseases by banking stem cells extracted from their own blood is being offered by biomedical companies in the first service of its kind. The service called Oristem®, has just received a regulatory licence  fr...

The news a cancer patient most fears is that the disease has spread and become much more difficult to treat. A new method to isolate and grow the most dangerous cancer cells could enable new research into how cancer spreads and, ultimately, how to fight it. University of Illinois researchers, in co...

The blood-brain barrier -  the filter that governs what can and cannot come into contact with the mammalian brain -- is a marvel of nature. It effectively separates circulating blood from the fluid that bathes the brain, and it keeps out bacteria, viruses and other agents that could damage it. But...

Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (HBIO), a global developer, manufacturer, and marketer of a broad range of tools to advance life science research and regenerative medicine, announces that its "InBreath" bioreactors were used for the world's first and second successful laryngotracheal implants, using synthe...

Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that a single protein molecule may hold the key to turning cardiac stem cells into blood vessels or muscle tissue, a finding that may lead to better ways to treat heart attack patients. Human heart tissue does not heal well after a heart attack, instead for...

 Researchers at Oregon State University have for the first time traced the actions of a known carcinogen in cooked meat to its complex biological effects on microRNA and cancer stem cells. The findings are part of a growing awareness of the role of epigenetics in cancer, or the ways in which gene ...

Scottish and Californian universities will work on research into diseases such as Parkinson's, First Minister Alex Salmond has announced. The collaboration between Stanford, St Andrews and Heriot Watt was announced during Mr Salmond's trip to the states. He added that Scotland had some of the worl...

A cutting-edge method developed at the University of Michigan Center for Arrhythmia Research successfully uses stem cells to create heart cells capable of mimicking the heart's crucial squeezing action. The cells displayed activity similar to most people's resting heart rate. At 60 beats per min...

Osiris Therapeutics, Inc  announced that it has received consent from New Zealand to market its first stem cell therapy Prochymal®(remestemcel-L), for the treatment of acute graft-vs-host disease (GvHD) in children.   With this decision New Zealand joins Canada, which last month became the wor...

An anti-psychotic drug used to treat schizophrenia appears to get rid of cancer stem cells by helping them differentiate into less threatening cell types. The discovery reported in the Cell Press journal Cell on May 24th comes after researchers screened hundreds of compounds in search of those that ...

Two patients have undergone treatment as part of a revolutionary stem cell replacement study which could reverse their corneal blindness. The pioneering approach to the treatment of eye disease is the first trial of its kind to be developed in the UK. It has been developed by Scottish scientists a...

Scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), the world’s first bioengineering and nanotechnology research institute, have discovered that neural stem cells possess the innate ability to target tumor cells outside the central nervous system. This finding, which was demons...

Research group headed by Professor Takashi Tsuji demonstrates regenerating “functional hair regeneration from adult stem cells” Substantial advance in the development of next-generation of “organ replacement regenerative therapies”. Organ replacement regenerative therapy is purported to ena...

In an exciting medical breakthrough, UCLA scientists say they have found a way to turn stem cells into cells that fight HIV. The genetically engineered cells have proven to be effective in suppressing the virus in animals. The study in mice demonstrates for the first time that engineering stem cell...

Researchers at Edinburgh University are working with a team from Harvard Medical School in Boston to be the first in the world to produce mature human eggs from stem cells isolated from human ovarian tissue. he first human egg cells that have been grown entirely in the laboratory from stem cells co...

As Britain faces an epidemic of liver disease a medical breakthrough is offering new hope to those awaiting transplants. A UK Professor will head the world’s first trial using liver stem cells that could avoid transplant surgery. Paediatric liver consultant Professor Anil Dhawan, who will head t...

Producing human eggs from stem cells would also open up the possibility of replenishing the ovaries of older women so that they do not suffer the age-related health problems associated with the menopause, from osteoporosis to heart disease. Some scientists are even suggesting the possibility of pro...

A Yale doctor’s innovative stem cell procedure may change the field of regenerative medicine.4-year old Angela Irizarry was born with a single pumping chamber in her heart, a congenital birth defect that causes the heart to overwork itself trying to pump sufficient amounts of blood to the body. Si...

A cutting-edge stem cell research programme funded by the MND Association has produced a key development that could have a powerful impact on the search for treatments for MND. The international research team, led by world-class scientists from the University of Edinburgh, King's College London and...

Scientists may have discovered a new paradigm for immunotherapy against cancer by priming antibodies and T cells with cancer stem cells, according to a study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. "This is a major breakthrough in immunotherapy resea...

Patients with advanced heart disease who received an experimental stem cell therapy showed slightly improved heart function, researchers said at a major US cardiology conference on Saturday. The clinical trial involved 92 patients, with an average age of 63, who were picked at random to get either ...

Breaking new ground, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in M\u00fcnster, Germany, have succeeded in obtaining somatic stem cells from fully differentiated somatic cells. Stem cell researcher Hans Schöler and his team took skin cells from mice and, using a unique combin...

Stem cell transplant reportedly help people with aggressive Multiple Sclerosis (MS). some good news for patients diagnosed with aggressive forms of multiple sclerosis (MS). According to a recent study, replacing bone marrow that is purposely destroyed by chemotherapy with autologous stem cell can b...

A team of Canadian researchers has been awarded $442,000 to test the world's first experimental stem-cell therapy aimed at patients who suffer from septic shock, a runaway infection of the bloodstream that's notoriously difficult to treat. The federal grant will allow researchers from the Ottawa Ho...

A study by Columbia researchers suggests that cells in the patient's intestine could be coaxed into making insulin, circumventing the need for a stem cell transplant. Until now, stem cell transplants have been seen by many researchers as the ideal way to replace cells lost in type I diabetes and to ...

Northwestern University scientists have developed a powerful analytical method that they have used to direct stem cell differentiation. Out of millions of possibilities, they rapidly identified the chemical and physical structures that can cue stem cells to become osteocytes, cells found in mature b...

A new cornea may be the only way to prevent a patient going blind — but there is a shortage of donated corneas and the queue for transplantation is long. Scientists at the Sahlgrenska Academy have for the first time successfully cultivated stem cells on human corneas, which may in the long term re...

Researchers from The University of Nottingham have demonstrated how a species of flatworm overcomes the ageing process to be potentially immortal. The discovery, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is part of a project funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Science...

UCLA stem cell researchers have discovered a critical placental niche cell and signalling pathway that prevent blood precursors from premature differentiation in the placenta, a process necessary for ensuring proper blood supply for an individual’s lifetime. The placental niche, a stem cell “sa...

Revolutionary knee surgery similar to that used in heart operations has convinced Cronulla backrower Anthony Tupou he can return to his rampaging best in 2012. The 28-year-old underwent stem cell surgery, which regenerates the growth of cartilage in his right knee, three months ago in a bid to cure...

It may be possible to one day create an “unlimited” supply of human eggs to aid fertility treatment, US doctors say. Researchers have shown it is possible to find stem cells in adult women which spontaneously produced new eggs in the laboratory. Further experiments on mice showed such eggs cou...

Hydrogen sulphide, the gas famed for generating the stench in stink bombs, flatulence and bad breath, has been harnessed by stem cell researchers in Japan. Their study, in the Journal of Breath Research, investigated using it to help convert stem cells from human teeth into liver cells. The scient...

Results from a Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute clinical trial show that treating heart attack patients with an infusion of their own heart-derived cells helps damaged hearts re-grow healthy muscle. Patients who underwent the stem cell procedure demonstrated a significant reduction in the size of the s...

Maternal and newborn health researchers have made headway towards their aim of using stem cells in amniotic fluid to create heart tissue in time for an infant’s arrival when a defect in the muscle is spotted in utero. The scientists at Rice University and Texas Children’s Hospital in the US, le...

A research team led by UC Davis Health System scientists has developed a novel technique to enhance bone growth by using a molecule which, when injected into the bloodstream, directs the body’s stem cells to travel to the surface of bones. Once these cells are guided to the bone surface by this mo...

University of Illinois researchers determined that an adult stem cell present in muscle is responsive to exercise, a discovery that may provide a link between exercise and muscle health. The findings could lead to new therapeutic techniques using these cells to rehabilitate injured muscle and preven...

Experiments in brain-injured rats show that stem cells injected via the carotid artery travel directly to the brain, where they greatly enhance functional recovery, reports a study in the February issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is publis...

Using stem cells to create liver-like cells for laboratory research may advance efforts to find out why people respond differently to hepatitis C infection, scientists say. It’s not clear why some people are resistant to hepatitis C, while others are highly susceptible to the infectious disease t...

Bypassing the stem cell stage, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine in California converted mouse skin cells directly into neural precursor cells, the cells that go on to form the three main types of cell in the brain and nervous system. They write about their findings in the 30...

Heart failure is a leading cause of death in Canada. As part of the ongoing IMPACT-CABG clinical trial to treat advanced heart failure, physicians at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre performed the first cardiac stem cell transplant in Ontario last week using stem cells derived from the patient’s own ...

Scientists in Edinburgh who pioneered cloning have made a technological breakthrough that could pave the way for better medical treatment of mental illnesses and nerve diseases

First-Ever Feat Provides New Method to Understand Cause of Disease + Develop Drug.Led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, scientists have, for the first time, created stem cell-derived, in vitro models of sporadic and hereditary Alzheimer's disease (AD), usi...

A collaborative anti-cancer research jointly conducted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School and Nevada Cancer Institute has led to the development of a novel class of chemical inhibitors that specifically target cancer cells with pluripotency.Th...

Arab Health International Convention 2012 - A service that extracts stem cells from adult blood and stores it has been given approval for the first time by the regulatory body the Human Tissue Authority. Until now it has only been possible to store stem cells for babies that have taken from umbil...

South Korea's government drug agency cleared the way Thursday for commercial sales of what it called the world's first approved medicine using stem cells collected from other people.Cartistem, developed by Seoul-based Medipost, will help regenerate knee cartilage using stem cells developed from newb...

Scientists with the new Children's Research Institute at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified the environment in which blood-forming stem cells survive and thrive within the body, an important step toward increasing the safety and effectiveness of bone-marrow transplantation.Institute inve...

Scotland signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the prestigious Californian Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) today (Thursday 19th January). Facilitated by Scottish Development International (SDI), the MoU will enable joint research between scientists and companies in Scotland and C...

A team of researchers at the UC Davis Institute for Regenerative Cures has developed a technique for using stem cells to deliver therapy that specifically targets the genetic abnormality found in Huntington's disease, a hereditary brain disorder that causes progressive uncontrolled movements, dement...

The market for stem cell technologies will rise to over $700 million this year, and given some positive trends, could reach over $1 billion, according to healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information.In its new report, “Stem Cells: Worldwide Markets for Transplantation, Cord Blood Bank...

Scientists at The University of Nottingham are leading a £ 1.3 million research project to develop new treatments to replace brain cells lost during dementia.Lead investigator Dr Virginie Sottile, of the School of Clinical Sciences, is heading up the Alzheimer's Society-funded study to ‘flick a g...

For the first time ever, stem cells from umbilical cords have been converted into other types of cells, which may eventually lead to new treatment options for spinal cord injuries and multiple sclerosis, among other nervous system diseases.“This is the first time this has been done with non-embryo...

The University of Kentucky will be the first site in the state and one of a select few in the entire country participating in the first stages of a groundbreaking study to investigate the effects of MultiStem, a human adult stem cell product, on patients with acute ischemic stroke. The phase II clin...

Surgeons in Sweden have replaced the cancerous windpipe of a Maryland man with one made in a laboratory and seeded with the man's cells.The windpipe, or trachea, made from minuscule plastic fibers and covered in stem cells taken from the man's bone marrow, was implanted in November. The patient, Chr...

China has ordered a halt to all unapproved stem cell treatments and clinical trials, state media reported on Tuesday, as Beijing seeks to rein in the largely untested stem cell therapies now on offer across the country.The Ministry of Health has also stopped accepting new applications for stem cell ...

A newly-developed technology that uses stem cells from cord blood to re-educate diabetic patients' own T cells was able to restart pancreatic function and reduce the need for insulin.Type 1 diabetes is caused by the body's own immune system attacking its pancreatic islet beta cells and requires dail...

New research highlights the possibility of reversing ageing in the central nervous system for multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. The study is published on January 6, in the journal Cell Stem Cell.As we get older, our bodies' ability to regenerate decreases. This is not only true for our skin (which i...

Two Maryland biotechs announced inroads in their efforts to develop stem cell treatments for depression and diabetes.Neuralstem has gotten the regulatory go-ahead to advance to phase 1b in its ongoing clinical trial of its stem cell treatment for major depressive disorder.NSI-189 stimulates new neur...

In the future, patients in need of perfectly matched neural stem cells may not need to look any further than their own eyes. Researchers reporting in the January issue of Cell Stem Cell, a Cell Press publication, have identified adult stem cells of the central nervous system in a single layer of cel...

New findings by researchers at the University of Helsinki, Finland, increase the understanding of mechanisms of age-related degeneration. The results are a breakthrough in revealing the unexpected importance of energy metabolism in regulating stem cell function and tissue maintenance.Age-related tis...

Mice bred to age too quickly seemed to have sipped from the fountain of youth after scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine injected them with stem cell-like progenitor cells derived from the muscle of young, healthy animals. Instead of becoming infirm and dying early as untrea...

AUSTRALIAN researchers have developed the world's first stem cell model of multiple sclerosis, opening up new ways to study the debilitating disease and test treatments for it.The deputy director of Monash University's Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories, Claude Bernard, said he and his colleagues...

An HIV drug that redirects immune cell traffic appears to significantly reduce the dangerous complication graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) in blood cancer patients following allogeneic stem cell transplantation (ASCT), according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University ...

A human-made package filled with nature's bone-building ingredients delivers the goods over time and space to heal serious bone injuries faster than products currently available, Cleveland researchers have found.Tested on sheep in Switzerland, the surgical elastic "implant device," essentially a wra...

Stem cell scientists have taken human skin cells, reprogrammed them to be pluripotent and then differentiated them into neurons, using animal origin-free reagents and feeder conditions throughout the process.This is the first time scientists have been able to derive potentially clinically usable ind...

Your hair or lack of hair is the result of a lifelong tug-of-war between activators that wake up, and inhibitors that calm, stem cells in every hair follicle on your body, according to Cheng-Ming Chuong, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Southern California (USC).Chuong presented the findings on Dec...

Researchers investigating the fundamental cause of Dravet syndrome, a severe childhood epilepsy, have reprogrammed fibroblasts, a type of skin cell, from Dravet patients and generated patient-specific neurons that could help determine new therapies or better medications for the syndrome.Jack M. Pare...

University of California, Berkeley, neuroscientists have discovered a genetic trigger that makes the nose renew its smell sensors, providing hope for new therapies for people who have lost their sense of smell due to trauma or old age.The gene tells olfactory stem cells - the adult tissue stem cells...

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a way to use patients' own cells to potentially cure sickle cell disease and many other disorders caused by mutations in a gene that helps produce blood haemoglobin.The technique uses cells from a patient's skin to generate indu...

A multi million pound package of support - including a new £ 180 million fund to support the next brilliant medical breakthroughs - and the roll out of state of the art life saving equipment to three million homes are part of a series of measures outlined by the Prime Minister today to support the ...

Scientists in Canada have overcome a key research hurdle to developing regenerative treatments for diabetes and liver disease with a technique to produce medically useful amounts of endoderm cells from human pluripotent stem cells. The research, published in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, can be ...

Researchers have identified a new and relatively abundant pool of stem cells in the heart that have the capacity for long-term expansion and can form a variety of cell types, including muscle, bone, neural and heart cells.The researchers say the discovery may lay a foundation for much needed regener...

Scientists have developed a technology - implantable replacement cartilage - that may provide a therapeutic solution for joints and bones damaged by osteoarthritis, sports injuries and accidents.Self-assembling sheets of mesenchymal stem cells permeated with tiny beads filled with growth factor form...

A team of scientists has regenerated functional muscle tissue in mice, possibly opening the door for a new clinical therapy to treat people who suffer major muscle trauma.Researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and privately-held company CellThera used a novel protocol to coax mature human ...

Two linked clinical studies that will show whether stem cell therapy can save the lives of heart attack patients are now underway in London, following the award of £11.7 million funding from the European Commission.Professor Anthony Mathur (Queen Mary, University of London and Barts and the London ...

Researchers from UCLA's cancer and stem cell centers have demonstrated for the first time that blood stem cells can be engineered to create cancer-killing T-cells that seek out and attack a human melanoma. The researchers believe this approach could be useful in 40 percent of Caucasians with this ma...

A 36-year-old husband and father of two children with an inoperable tumor in his trachea (windpipe) has received the world's first artificial trachea made with stem cells.A report published online Nov. 23 in The Lancet described the transplant surgery, which was performed in June at the Karolinska U...

Human stem cells aren't immune to the ageing process, according to scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The researchers studied haematopoietic stem cells, which create the cells that comprise the blood and immune system. Understanding when and how these stem cells begin to falte...

Neuroscientists at Stanford University School of Medicine have homed in on potential differences in autistic people's brain cells by studying brain-like spheres grown in an elaborate process from skin cells.The scientists studied cells from patients with Timothy syndrome, a rare genetic condition th...

Researchers from England and Germany, using a genetic analysis technique known as “next generation sequencing,” have identified a defective gene called MEGF10 that is responsible for the muscle weakness characteristic of a progressive muscle disease in children.The new findings shed light on the...

The Multiple Sclerosis Research Center of New York (MSRCNY) and the International Cellular Medicine Society (ICMS) announced that the ICMS Institutional Review Board has approved the first study to use autologous brain-like or neural stem cells for multiple sclerosis.“This initial stem cell treatm...

University of Central Florida researchers, for the first time, have used stem cells to grow neuromuscular junctions between human muscle cells and human spinal cord cells, the key connectors used by the brain to communicate and control muscles in the body.The success at UCF is a critical step in dev...

Melbourne, Australia; 22 November 2011: Global regenerative medicine company, Mesoblast Limited (ASX: MSB), today announced that it has reached agreement with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the key elements of the company's first clinical trial using intravenous delivery of ...

The author J K Rowling will bury a time capsule to mark the start of building work on a research clinic for patients with multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases.The clinic at the University of Edinburgh is being set up following a £ 10 million donation from Ms Rowling and is named ...

The development of simple tests to predict a leukemic relapse in young patients is a step closer thanks to researchers from the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center and the University of Montreal. Approximately 20 percent of young leukemia patients who are treated with stem cells deriv...

Stem cells taken from a patient's own heart have, for the first time, been used to repair damaged heart tissue.The study, published in the Lancet, was designed to test the procedure's safety, but also reported improvements in the heart's ability to pump blood.The authors said the findings were "very...

Italian and Spanish scientists studying the use of stem cells for treating spinal cord injuries have provided the first evidence to show that meninges, the membrane which envelops the central nervous system, is a potential source of self-renewing stem cells. The research, published in Stem Cells, de...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved the first cord-blood product —  called Hemacord —  for stem-cell transplants that replenish blood cells of patients with certain blood cancers and inherited metabolic and immune system disorders.The product, made by the New York Blood Ce...

A new study reveals the role of the daily biological clock (circadian rhythms) in the regenerative capacity of skin stem cells. Disruption of this rhythm results in premature tissue ageing and a greater predisposition to the development of skin tumours. The proper reestablishment of the biological c...

The Vatican conference, co-hosted under NeoStem's partnership with the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Culture (PCC), former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, Tommy G. Thompson, urged President Obama to establish a commission that will fund research for adult stem cells on Wednesday.The thr...

Guided by insights into how mice recover after H1N1 flu, researchers at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, together with researchers at A*STAR of Singapore, have cloned three distinct stem cells from the human airways and demonstrated that one of these cells can form into the l...

A new study from University of California, Berkeley, researchers demonstrates that adult stem cells can reshape our organs in response to changes in the body and the environment, a finding that could have implications for diabetes and obesity.Current thinking has been that, once embryonic stem cells...

For the first time, researchers have combined gene therapy and stem cell transplantation to successfully reverse the severe, crippling bleeding disorder haemophilia A in large animals, opening the door to the development of new therapies for human patients.Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical ...

Researchers have tested a process by which T regulatory cells (Tregs) can be “expanded” to help prevent graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), a serious risk in stem cell transplants carried out when stem cells are partially depleted of conventional T cells, which play an important role in the immune...

Old stem cells can be rejuvenated by being placed in a young microenvironment, research from The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio shows. This raises the possibility that patients' own stem cells may one day be rescued and banked to treat their age-related diseases. Stem cells ar...

According to the findings of one Japanese research team, diabetes may one day be treated by transplanted stem cells from an individual's brain into the pancreas, where they express characteristics of pancreatic beta cells and begin producing insulin.If you have diabetes, there could be a cure in the...

Medicine thrown into crisis by stem cell rulingBritish medical researchers have condemned a Europe-wide ban on the patenting of stem cell inventions derived from human embryos - setting back possible new treatments for a range of disorders, from heart disease and diabetes to blindness and Parkinson'...

LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Europe's highest court ruled on Tuesday that any process which involves removal of a stem cell from a human embryo and entails the destruction of that embryo cannot be patented, a judgment that could have deep ramifications for medical research.The ruling by the European Court...

Regenerating a stem-cell ethics debate.The moral controversy over stem cell research seemed to have been put to rest with the engineering of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which do not require the destruction of embryos. But news of the creation of cloned human embryonic stem cells (New Sci...

Scientists have improved upon their own previous world-best efforts to pluck out just the right stem cells to address the brain problem at the core of multiple sclerosis and a large number of rare, fatal children's diseases.Details of how scientists isolated and directed stem cells from the human br...

An Exclusive by Helen McArdleScotland Herald.IT began more than six years ago with the discovery of a “broken” gene in the DNA of a Scottish family, all of whom suffered from schizophrenia.Now researchers in Glasgow will put their findings to the test by growing brain cells in a laboratory which...

Two of the holy grails of medicine - stem cell technology and precision gene therapy have been united for the first time in humans, say scientists.It means patients with a genetic disease could, one day, be treated with their own cells.A study in Nature corrected a mutation in stem cells made from a...

Using patients' own stem cells can overcome shortage of insulin-producing cells without the need for gene transfer.Researchers have discovered how a patient's neural stem cells could be used as an alternative source of the beta cells needed for a regenerative treatment for diabetes. The research rev...

By adding the nuclei of adult skin cells from patients with type 1 diabetes to unfertilised human eggs without first removing the egg DNA as was done to clone Dolly the sheep, scientists at a stem cell lab in New York have managed to reprogram the eggs to an embryonic state and make a self-reproduci...

A £ 6M research centre which it is hoped will revolutionise the treatment of arthritis is due to be launched at a North Yorkshire university this week.York University is one of four institutions that are part of the new Arthritis Research UK Tissue Engineering Centre, which aims to regenerate bone ...

Cell therapy centre to open in 2012 as part of £ 220m programme to turn British skills into manufacturing success.The prime minister will this month announce the creation of a £ 30m centre to turn scientists' stem cell research into a new multimillion-pound industry to help drive Britain's recover...

Using a patient's own stem cells, researchers at Johns Hopkins have corrected the genetic alteration that causes sickle cell disease (SCD), a painful, disabling inherited blood disorder that affects mostly African-Americans. The corrected stem cells were coaxed into immature red blood cells in a tes...

Scientists at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine found a way to rapidly produce pure populations of cells that grow into the protective myelin coating on nerves in mice. Their process opens a door to research and potential treatments for multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and other d...

Researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center have identified a new pathway of stem cell activity in the brain that represents potential targets of brain injuries affecting newborns. The recent study, which raises new questions of how the brain evolves, is ...

Researchers have shown they can reverse the ageing process for human adult stem cells, which are responsible for helping old or damaged tissues regenerate. The findings could lead to medical treatments that may repair a host of ailments that occur because of tissue damage as people age.The achieveme...

A Fox Sports report Sunday detailed how Peyton Manning, the Colts quarterback and four-time league MVP sought stem cell therapy after two surgeries on his neck did not help address a painful bulging disk. He had another surgery recently, the third in 19 months, and it's unclear if Manning will be he...

The Allen Institute for Brain Science announced today the discovery of a new class of cells in the spinal cord that act like neural stem cells, offering a fresh avenue in the search for therapies to treat spinal cord injury and disease. The published collaborative study, authored by scientists from ...

Controlling diabetes may someday involve mining stem cells from the lining of the uterus, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a new study published in the journal Molecular Therapy. The team treated diabetes in mice by converting cells from the uterine lining into insulin-producing cells.T...

A £ 5 MILLION stem cell research fund backed by Scottish Enterprise is being launched today supported by some of the biggest names in research and finance.Medical research charity UK Stem Cell Foundation (UKSCF) will run the fund to underpin the work of researchers and clinicians in Scotland workin...

Stem cells show great potential to enable treatments for conditions such as spinal injuries or Lou Gehrig's disease, and also as research tools. One of the greatest problems slowing such work is that researchers have found major complications in purifying cell mixtures, for instance to remove stem c...

For the first time scientists have shown that cultured red blood cells can be grown in the lab from adult stem cells and injected successfully into a human. Whereas stem cells taken from human embryos produce only unsuitable, immature cells, with rejection and uncontrolled tumor growth remaining a c...

Researchers from the University of Reading have developed the first fully tissue-engineered fetal membrane from human stem cells that could significantly reduce the number of premature births.The leading cause of perinatal and neonatal mortality is pre-term birth, of which 40% is attributed to the p...

The metabolic state of glioma stem cells, which give rise to deadly glioblastomas, is significantly different from that of the brain cancer cells to which they give birth, a factor which helps those stem cells avoid treatment and cause recurrence later.Researchers with the UCLA Department of Radiati...

Global regenerative medicine company, Mesoblast Limited, (ASX: MSB), announced that it had received clearance from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to begin a 225-patient multi-center Phase 2 clinical trial in Europe for its lead cardiovascular product Revascor(TM) in conjunction with angioplasty...

Human colon stem cells have been identified and grown in a petri dish in the lab for the first time. This achievement, made by researchers of the Colorectal Cancer Lab at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and published in Nature Medicine, is a crucial advance towards regenera...

Transplantation of haematopoietic stem cells is an effective treatment for patients with malignant blood diseases. The composition and quality of the transplanted cells are crucial to the outcome. Researchers from Lund University, Sweden, have now developed a method to improve the quality of the tra...

Neurosurgery researchers at UC Davis Health System have used a new, leading-edge stem cell therapy to promote the growth of bone tissue following the removal of cervical discs -- the cushions between the bones in the neck -- to relieve chronic, debilitating pain.The procedure was performed by associ...

McMaster researchers have found one more reason to exercise: working out triggers influential stem cells to become bone instead of fat, improving overall health by boosting the body's capacity to make blood.The body's mesenchymal stem cells are most likely to become fat or bone, depending on which p...

Fat cells in the skin have been identified as the source of chemicals needed to make hair grow, according to researchers in the US.Experiments on mice, reported in the journal Cell, suggested hair stem cells were controlled by fat.Injecting a type of fat cell stimulated hair growth in mice which oth...

The world's first clinical trial of brain stem cells to treat strokes is set to move to its next phase.An independent assessment of the first three patients to have had stem cells injected into their brain at Glasgow's Southern General Hospital has concluded it has had no adverse effect.The assessme...

A breakthrough in Parkinson's disease research came to light this week when researchers reported successfully growing stem cells from the skin of a patient with a rapidly progressing form of the disease. The cells, which mimic the features of Parkinson's, should help scientists study the disease mor...

New stem cell lines developed from the skin of adults living with bipolar disorder are providing researchers at the University of Michigan Health System an unprecedented opportunity to inverstigate the genetic and biological underpinnings of the devastating mood disorder.Scientists will be able to l...

Stem cell researchers in Hong Kong and the United States are trying to grow spare parts for the human heart that may be ready for tests on people within five years, they said on Thursday.Scientists have already made basic heart muscle from stem cells, but the Hong Kong-led team wants to refine it so...

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have gained new insight into the delicate relationship between two proteins that, when out of balance, can prevent the normal development of stem cells in the heart and may also be important in some types of cancer. "The news, being announced in a paper publish...

After a heart attack or stroke, heart scarring can lead to dangerously paper-thin heart walls and a decreased ability to pump blood through the body. Although the heart is unable to completely heal itself, a new treatment developed at Tel Aviv University uses laser-treated bone marrow stem cells to ...

Yorkshire Cancer Research has awarded £ 2.15m to the University of York for prostate cancer stem cell research.The five-year funding will allow the university's YCR Cancer Research Unit to explore the molecular properties that allow prostate cancer stem cells - widely regarded as the “root” cau...

Stem cell researchers at UCLA have uncovered for the first time why adult human cardiac myocytes have lost their ability to proliferate, perhaps explaining why the human heart has little regenerative capacity.The study, done in cell lines and mice, may lead to methods of reprogramming a patient's ow...

Cell Guidance Systems, a stem cell tools company based in Cambridge UK, has been awarded £ 100,000 grant funding to pursue cutting edge technology in the field.The Government-backed Technology Strategy Board has advanced the funding for technology that is due for launch this month.The Babraham Rese...

Every year, millions of people see doctors for lower back and neck pain. Cornell University engineers in Ithaca and doctors at Weill Cornell Medical College have created a biologically based spinal implant that could someday mean relief for countless sufferers.Larry Bonassar, associate professor of ...

A major clinical trial will investigate whether stem cells can be safely used to treat multiple sclerosis (MS).It is hoped eventually to slow, stop or even reverse the damage MS causes to the brain and spinal cord.The trial, involving up to 150 patients across Europe, is due to start later this year...

Treating Stage IV breast cancer patients with high-dose chemotherapy followed by a rescue with their own, specially purified blood stem cells that had been purged of cancer, could significantly increase their chances of survival, according to new research from Stanford.The long-term study (subscript...

UBC researchers have invented a silicone chip that could make genetic analysis far more sensitive, rapid, and cost-effective by allowing individual cells to fall into place like balls in a pinball machine.The UBC device - about the size of a nine-volt battery - allows scientists to simultaneously an...

Dr. Richard Burt and colleagues at Northwestern University have just published a new study in The Lancet that provides more evidence for the success of adult stem cell transplant in treating system sclerosis (scleroderma).The autoimmune disease causes rigidity in the skin and organs, including lungs...

Scientists at the University of Liverpool are leading a £ 2 million project to grow blood from stem cells which is set to remove the need for blood donation in the long-term.The team is developing highly targeted methods of isolating and purifying haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) which are the prog...

On its 135th and final flight in NASA's shuttle program, the shuttle Atlantis carried the stem cells of six adults to the International Space Station. Alberto Sant Antonio, MD, a Weston, Florida general surgeon, was selected to obtain the tissue samples from the six adults. NASA is hopeful the Human...

Skin cells from a 30-year-old woman have been turned directly into mature nerve cells similar to those found in the brain using a procedure that promises to revolutionise the emerging field of regenerative medicine.Scientists said they were astonished to discover that they could convert a person's s...

Oncogenes are generally thought to be genes that, when mutated, change healthy cells into cancerous tumor cells. Scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) have proven that those genes also can change normal cells into stem-like cells, paving the way to ...

A new plastic surface which overcomes the difficulties associated with growing adult stem cells has been developed, according to scientists.Standard surfaces have proved limited for growing large amounts and retaining the stem cells' useful characteristics.It is hoped the discovery could lead to the...

Oxford University researchers have identified a protein that can direct stem cells to become either new heart muscle or blood vessels. The research, which was carried out in zebrafish, offers insight into how it might be possible one day to generate tissues to repair the human heart after damage inf...

Japanese scientists have grown fully formed teeth from stem cells.The US Public Library of Science Journal reports the tooth is fully functional and mature, with bone and ligament around it.It is thought to be the first time this procedure has been successful.Queensland University of Technology cell...

Human neural stem cells are capable of helping people regain learning and memory abilities lost due to radiation treatment for brain tumors, a University of California Irvine (UCI) study suggests. Research with rats found that stem cells transplanted two days after cranial irradiation restored cogni...

Timothy Ray Brown - better known as the Berlin patient - is a living legend in the world of HIV research, as the first person to be cured of Aids through a medical procedure. The virus was eradicated from the 45-year-old American, resident in Germany, through bone marrow transplants from a donor who...

Scientists have raised hope that stem cell therapy could provide significant relief for patients disabled by untreatable chest pain.Patients with severe angina had stem cells from their blood injected into their heart.The therapy, carried out by Chicago's Northwestern University, halved the number o...

Researchers have uncovered a new target that could stop the growth of glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer. In the July 8th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, a new study identifies an enzyme found in glioma stem cells that allows them to grow and seed tumors. Importantly, n...

Gerontologist Aubrey de Grey believes stem cell technology and other innovations could radically prolong our lives.If Aubrey de Grey's predictions are right, the first person who will live to see his 150th birthday has already been born. And the first person to live for 1,000 years could be less tha...

Human stem cells have the ability to become any cell type in the human body, but when it comes to their destination they know where they want to go.Another breakthrough for McMaster University's Mick Bhatia and his team of stem cell researchers. They've discovered stem cells each have preferences to...

About a decade ago, experts demonstrated that it is possible to use printers to create living tissue. In a new study, experts have taken an extremely important step forward in the effort to create printing technologies that can produce mass amounts of stem cells. By replacing printer ink cartridges ...

Surgeons in Sweden have carried out the world's first synthetic organ transplant.Scientists in London created an artificial windpipe which was then coated in stem cells from the patient.Crucially, the technique does not need a donor, and there is no risk of the organ being rejected. The surgeons str...

The first woman in Scotland to receive pancreatic cells to treat her diabetes has described the procedure as "life changing".Kathleen Duncan, who has type 1 diabetes, no longer requires insulin after having a pancreatic islet cell transplant.She is among patients being treated as part of a UK-leadin...

A British teenager has been given a new windpipe grown from her own stem cells in a pioneering operation.The 19-year-old has now been discharged after having the procedure in Italy.She was suffering from a rare form of trachea cancer and would have died without the operation.Doctors took tissue from...

Stem cell therapy enriched with a bone-regenerating hormone, insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), can help mend broken bones in fractures that are not healing normally, a new animal study finds. The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting will host presentation of the results on Sunday in Boston. A...

A Johns Hopkins team has discovered in young adult mice that a lone brain stem cell is capable not only of replacing itself and giving rise to specialized neurons and glia - important types of brain cells, but also of taking a wholly unexpected path: generating two new brain stem cells. Previously i...

The application of stem cells treatments aimed at the rapid recovery of people has revolutionized medical science and the possibility of using the method to relieve injuries athletes suffered.The Deputy Director of Research of the Hematology and Immunology Institute, Dr. Porfirio Hernandez confirmed...

Researchers at UCLA have identified a new stem cell that participates in the repair of the large airways of the lungs, which play a vital role in protecting the body from infectious agents and toxins in the environment.The airways protect the body by producing and clearing mucus from the airways. Th...

Researchers believe to have found a "missing link" in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS).Scientists said they have discovered a new molecule that could lead to a drug treatment to repair the damage caused by the disease.The molecule is able to stimulate stem cells to repair myelin, the fatty m...

Korea will approve the world's first stem-cell medication as early as this month, the Korea Food and Drug Administration said Today. The state-run drug regulator said today that Hearticellgram-AMI, a stem-cell medication for treating heart attack victims, passed all the required safety and quality t...

Fibrocell Science, Inc. (OTCBB:FCSC.OB), a cell therapy company focused on the development of autologous (personalized) cell therapies for aesthetic, medical and scientific applications, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Company's Biologics License Application for its lead product, laVív® (azficel-T) late last night.

Scientists from the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), an institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), in collaboration with the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI), have discovered how the body uses a single communication system to decide the fate of stem cells. ...

Cedars-Sinai stem cell researchers investigating ways to prevent eye problems in diabetic patients have been awarded a $3 million grant from the National Eye Institute to develop gene therapy in corneal stem cells to alleviate damage to corneas that can cause vision loss. "Diabetes is the leading ca...

Stem Cell bank is a patent prospect.A biotechnology business located at the Hillington Park Innovation Centre, specialising in supply and storage of adult stem cells, has exclusive rights to a patent that offers exciting prospects for future clinical treatments.The comprehensive, 4-stage patent secu...

Surgery has restored sight in the eye of a man who for 55 years had a detached retina that left him blind in his right eye after it was hit by a stone when he was 8 years old. Thought to be the first time sight has been restored after such a long period of blindness following retinal detachment, doc...

The Vatican has signed its first ever commercial agreement with an outside company. The contract with U.S.-based bio-pharmaceutical firm NeoStem will advance ethical research into stem cells.“We would like to create a hotspot for scientists, benefactors, academics (and) Church leaders that will no...

Researchers may have found the key to developing a method to rid the body of stem cells responsible for driving fat expansion. According to a report in the June 16 Cell Stem Cell, a Cell Press publication, they've landed the first protein marker on the surface of those so-called adipose stromal cell...

A new study by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center has shown that, for the first time, Wnt signaling, already known to control many biological processes, between hair follicles and melanocyte stem cells can dictate hair pigmentation.The study was published in the June 11, 2011 issue of the jou...

A heart attack takes place when blood vessels that supply blood to the heart are blocked, preventing enough oxygen from getting to the organ. The heart muscle dies or becomes permanently damaged, tissue is scarred and the heart becomes enlarged. Now for survivors of cardiac arrest, stem cell injecti...

Ilika plc is pleased to announce the involvement of Altrika Ltd, its wholly owned subsidiary, in the Oristem\u00ae stem cell bank, a significant new medical breakthrough involving the collection and storage of stem cells from adults.The Oristem\u00ae service has been developed through a partnership ...

Researchers at King's College London have identified a way of eliminating leukemic stem cells, which could lead to new treatments that may enable complete remission for leukaemia patients. An early study in mice has shown that leukaemia stem cells can be abolished by suppressing two proteins found i...

Press Release3rd June 2011Launch of Oristem - the new service allowing adults to store their own stem cells as an investment in their future health. Pharmacells Ltd. is delighted to announce the launch of Oristem ; its new stem cell banking service that allows adults of any age to store these vital ...

Stem cells derived from abdominal fat-used along with a synthetic bone grafting material-are a potentially valuable new approach to repairing skull defects after brain surgery, according to a study in the June issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The jour...

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research is to benefit from a $1.1 million donation to further a pioneering bone marrow stem cell trial, which has been shown to have possible benefits for the treatment of the disease.The grant, donated by American benefactor, The Kenneth and Claudia Silverman Family Foundat...

Dr. Joseph Purita, through his company, the Institute of Regenerative and Molecular Orthopaedics, has been at the forefront of stem cell research. As one of the few physicians who utilize both bone marrow and fat stem cells in the treatment of muscular problems, Dr. Purita has spent his medical care...

Erida Kazmaj, 14, has never known a year where she had not been hospitalized at least four times. Born with cystic fibrosis, she's battled chronic symptoms including constant coughing, congestion and the disease has left her susceptible to serious viruses. At 40, Carrie Salback has already defied th...

The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) - a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing cures for major diseases through stem cell research - has applauded the announcement by Stanford University scientists, led by NYSCF - Robertson Investigator Dr. Marius Wernig, that they directly converted s...

Scientists hope an Australian stem cell research breakthrough will bring new treatments for a growing epidemic of chronic kidney disease.After becoming the first in the world to generate a type of stem cell from human kidney cells, Melbourne scientists are hoping their discovery will have far-reachi...

Stem cell research continues to move ahead. Not embryonic stem cell research, which are the cause much controversy, but the ethical stem cells known as Adult stem cells.After over 30 years of embryonic stem cell research, first with mouse and then human embryonic stem cells, not a single patient has...

What if you could take cells from the fat on your body and cure whatever ails you?Some Americans say they are doing just that, but not in this country. They're flying to places like Panama and Costa Rica to take part in cutting edge experimental treatments with dramatic results.Diagnosed with Multip...

For the first time, researchers have found a way to repair damaged livers using adult stem cells.The finding by Johns Hopkins researchers could one day be used as an alternative to liver transplant in patients with serious liver diseases, bypassing long waiting lists for organs and concerns about im...

For the first time, researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have identified a human lung stem cell that is self-renewing and capable of forming and integrating multiple biological structures of the lung including bronchioles, alveoli and pulmonary vessels. This research is published in the...

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have established a new method to patch a damaged heart using a tissue-engineering platform that enables heart tissue to repair itself. This breakthrough, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is an important step forward in com...

The first stage in creating an elite centre for developing cell therapies which could transform the lives of people with serious or chronic illnesses was announced by David Willetts Minister for Universities and Science today. Speaking at the World Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Congress...

In one of the first studies to look at the population behavior of a large pool of stem cells in thousands of hair follicles, scientists deciphered how hair stem cells in mice and rabbits can communicate with each other and encourage mutually coordinated regeneration.The team from the Keck School of ...

In a unique procedure involving stem cell therapy, a Kolkata cancer research institute claims to have cured a five-year-old boy of thalassemia, an inherited disease which affects the body's red blood corpuscles and leads to anaemia as a first symptom.Doctors at the Netaji Subhas Cancer Research Inst...

For the first time ever in the world, researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have produced a blood vessel from stem cells and then used it in an operation on a 10-year-old girl at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Surgeon and Professor Michael Olausson was...

Two lives changed because of a stem cell transplant. A 31-year old man helped extend a 7-year old boy's life with a stem cell transplant. They met for the first time on March 2011 with the presence of an awkward silence. Little did they know that they have changed each other's lives one way or anoth...

Many patients who undergo bone marrow or blood stem cell transplantation to treat blood cancers or a "pre-leukemic" condition called myelodysplasia experience a decline in mental and fine motor skills due to the toll of their disease and its treatment. A new study led by researchers at Fred Hutchin...

Scientist at the Gladstone Institutes has made two significant stem-cell discoveries that advance medicine and human health by creating powerful new approaches for using stem cells and stem-cell-like technology. In two papers published on April 25 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scien...

Adult stem cells cure sports inquiries. For winter sports athletes, nothing can ruin a season quite like a knee or other joint injury. At best, you're looking at 6-12 months on the sidelines: going under the knife, working through months of rehabilitation and then trying to get back in shape before...

Patients Medical, a leading integrative medical center in NYC, is offering adult stem cell therapy for selected patients for a variety of chronic debilitating diseases including osteoarthritis, certain types of chronic fatigue and other degenerative and auto-immune diseases. This new treatment metho...

Japanese medical experts are advising blood be taken from workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant to prepare for possible future stem cell transplants if they are exposed to damaging levels of radiation. According to a report in the medical journal the Lancet, doctors from the Cancer Institute, the ...

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) generated from schizophrenic patients have brought researchers a step closer to a fundamental understanding of the biological underpinnings of schizophrenia, a disabling condition among adults whose cause remains unknown despite a century of study. In their st...

Health officials should collect blood from workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in case they are accidentally exposed to high levels of radiation and need a stem cell transplant, Japanese researchers said this week. They said gathering blood from the workers would give them...

British scientists using human stem cells say they have found out how antidepressants make new brain cells -- a finding that should help drug researchers develop better and more efficient medicines to fight depression. Previous studies have shown that antidepressants such as tricyclics and selectiv...

Research analysts at LifeTech Capital reiterated a “strong buy” rating on shares of Neostem (NYSE: NBS) in a research note to investors on Monday. The analysts currently have a $4.00 price target on the stock. Separately, analysts at Zacks Investment Research reiterated a “neutral” rating o...

A group of Scots researchers who made a major scientific breakthrough after growing human kidneys in a lab could hold the key to tackling the shortage of organ donors. To get to the stage where transplants into humans may be possible, research teams in Scotland and the US have been working on the d...

Cardiac Stem Cell Treatment For Heart Failure Discussed By Roberto Bolli. Heart failure affects roughly six million Americans, yet treatment consists of either a heart transplant or the insertion of mechanical devices that assist the heart. This is unacceptable to Roberto Bolli, MD, Chief of the Di...

Hope to revolutionise transplants. Researchers at the University of Minnesota used adult stem cells to create a living human heart that they hope will revolutionize transplants. The breakthrough, said lead researcher Dr. Doris Taylor, could ultimately mean that “donated” hearts are no longer u...

A part of the eye that is essential for vision has been created in the laboratory from animal stem cells, offering hope to the blind and partially sighted. One day it might be possible to make an eye in a dish, Nature journal reports. The Japanese team used mouse stem cells - immature cells that h...

Adding stem cells to common bypass surgery may reduce heart failure. In a new research study under way at the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Centre in Houston Texas, surgeons are adding a patient's own stem cells to the heart during cardiac bypass surgery. The goal of this research stud...

Stem cells in bone marrow can help repair damaged skin, and now researchers think they know how this process is triggered. A team of researchers from the UK and Japan has discovered the chemical which calls stem cells from bone marrow into action to the site of a wound.The details on the finding of...

Stem cells to the rescue against radiation. Russian doctors are ready to lend a hand to clean-up and recovery workers dealing with the aftermath of Japan's Fukushima-1 nuclear accident, if they get exposed to high doses of radiation. The Medical Radiological Research Center in Obninsk, Kaluga Regio...

3D Experiments Highlight Versatility Of Adult Stem Cells A type of adult stem cell is proving to be more versatile for research and therapies thanks to innovative 3D experiments, according to a British researcher. The cells have already shown great promise for repairing damaged bone and cartilage ...

New Technique Allows Noninvasive Tracking Of Stem Cells In The Brain A new technique using "quantum dots" produced through nanotechnology is a promising approach to monitoring the effects of stem cell therapies for stroke and other types of brain damage, reports the April issue of Neurosurgery, off...

Stem cells to fat cells: Researchers uncover signal that helps control process Researchers at Stanford and UCSF have identified a molecular signal that plays an important role in directing a certain type of stem cells to mature into fat cells, and their finding could lead to the design of better dr...

Stem Cell Transplantation in Multiple Sclerosis: Long Term Follow-Up. Researchers previously reported promising initial results of autologous hemopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for multiple sclerosis (MS) in 15 patients followed for a median of 6 months in a single-center, open-label, unb...

Stem Cells research May lead to New treatments for Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Stroke, Spinal cord Injury. A group of scientists at Marshall University is conducting research that may someday lead to new treatments for repair of the central nervous system. Dr. El...

Scottish Life Science Strategy 2011 Scotland hosts the UK's second largest life sciences cluster and one of the most sizeable in Europe. The Scottish Life Sciences Strategy 2011: Creating Wealth, Promoting Health, outlines the Life Sciences Advisory Board's (LiSAB) mission to double the size of the...

Progress seen in creating eye cells from stem cells. Lab success may someday help people with macular degeneration, researchers say. To push the theoretical promise of stem cell research into the world of viable treatments, scientists have successfully fashioned adult stem cells into the kind of ey...

The world's first tissue-engineered urinary tubes or urethras, grown in the lab using patients' own cells, have been hailed a success by medical experts US surgeons have used the lab-grown tubes to treat five Mexican boys with damaged urinary tracts. They told the Lancet that all of the boys are n...

Scientists at the forefront of stem cell biology are exploring new approaches to creating surgical implants that could offer prolonged benefits for sufferers of osteoarthritis and potentially even cancer. At present, cartilage implants created using stem cells can only be constructed as a solid sha...

Treating disease is about fixing broken parts —  about replacing cells that no longer work as they should, repairing tissues that falter and boosting systems that fail. But curing disease is a different matter. To cure disease, you have to do all of that and more. You have to remove the pathologi...

Surgeon uses liposuction derived stem cells for breast reconstruction. Note: This technique uses Adipose Derived Cells (ADRC)which are known to be differentiated stem cells, similar to MSCs. ORLANDO, FL, March 14, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dr. Jeffrey Hartog is one of the first surgeons to recogn...

Monthly 'curse' turns boon: Menstrual blood gives cancer patients new hope "I am sitting here only because of stem-cell therapy,” said the gorgeous Lisa Ray, smiling. Her hair is still short, but it has grown in lively curls around her radiant face. She smiled again. “It may sound like an exagg...

Experimental Indian procedure aids patient A 22-year-old medical student in the United States lost his eyesight after he drank the toxic alcohol methanol. Doctors in the US said the blindness from this incident was irreversible due to the damage done on his optic nerve, but after flying to Chennai,...

LOS ANGELES - It's one of the most vexing problems in medical science: How can you mend a broken heart? A decade ago, researchers and cardiologists thought they had found an answer in stem cells. These powerful cells lurk throughout the body, repairing and maintaining tissues as needed. In the labo...

US Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine uses printer to create custom skin cell surface repair technique Researchers: Scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC, are heading up the project, which is part of the Armed Forces Institute for Regen...

Sci-fi spray gun cuts healing time for burns Monday, 7 February 2011 MCGOWAN INSTITUTE FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE Medical science has a new tool, dubbed "skin cell gun," which fires stem cells onto burned skin, cutting recovery time and saving lives. Burn injuries notoriously can take weeks and m...

A study, led by an Indian-origin boffin, has revealed that heart stem cells from children with congenital heart disease were able to rebuild the damaged heart in the laboratory. Sunjay Kaushal, surgeon in the Division of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery at Children's Memorial Hospital and assistant ...

Stem cell transplant has cured HIV infection in 'Berlin patient', say doctors Published: 13 December 2010Timothy Ray Brown gave an interview to German magazine Stern. The case history The Berlin patient speaks to the press Implications for future approaches to curing HIV infection Reference Doctor...

Stem cell jab 'may boost muscle' There are hopes that stem cell therapy can be used to tackle many diseasesContinue reading the main storyRelated storiesQ&A: Stem cellsWhen will stem cell therapy be a reality?Muscle wasting linked to old age might one day be treated using stem cells, claim ...

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NOTE - THIS TRIAL USES EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS. PHARMACELLS AND ORISTEM DO NOT USE EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS IN OUR WORK. An American biotech company has just announced that it has been licensed to begin human trials of a stem cell treatment for blindness. Advanced Cell Technology is trying to treat Starg...

Note - THIS TRIAL USES STEM CELLS FROM ETHICALLY SOURCED HUMAN EMBRYOS. PHARMACELLS AND ORISTEM DO NOT USE EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS. BBC Health 16th November 2010 Doctors in Glasgow have injected stem cells into the brain of a stroke patient in an effort to find a new treatment for the condition. The...

Miniature livers 'grown in lab' There is a shortage of organs for transplantScientists have managed to produce a small-scale version of a human liver in the laboratory using stem cells. The success increases hope that new transplant livers could be manufactured, although experts say that this is s...

BBC Q&A on stem cells. Let's you understand a bit more about why stem cells are so important to medical science and why you should be storing yours for your future health....

Old stem cells can be rejuvenated by being placed in a young microenvironment, research from The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio shows. This raises the possibility that patients' own stem cells may one day be rescued and banked to treat their age-related diseases. Stem cells a...