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Innocent Intrigue : Hans S. Keirstead at TEDxOrangeCoast – Video

Posted: November 4, 2012 at 3:45 am

Innocent Intrigue : Hans S. Keirstead at TEDxOrangeCoast
Stem cells will fundamentally change the course of human disease and longevity, says Hans Keirstead. An internationally known stem cell expert, Hans Keirstead has pioneered stem cell programs at UC Irvine and California Stem Cell. He led his teams to develop a stem cell-based treatment for paralysis, that marked the first such stem cell-based clinical trial ever approved by a regulatory body, worldwide, with positive interim data in a Phase 1 clinical trial. Dr. Keirstead also helped develop a therapy for the treatment of ulcerative collitis and rheumatoid arthritis, that has successfully met primary endpoints in Phase II clinical trials. He developed a stem cell-based therapy for the motor neuron diseases ALS and spinal muscular atrophy that will soon enter clinical testing, and made headlines for creating a 3D retina from stem cells for the treatment of retinal diseases. More recently, is developing a stem cell-based treatment for late stage cancers, a technology that has met primary endpoints in Phase II clinical trials. AboutTEDx. TEDx was created in the spirit of TED #39;s mission, "ideas worth spreading." The program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level. At TEDx events, a screening of TEDTalks videos -- or a combination of live presenters and TEDTalks videos -- sparks deep conversation and connections. TEDx events are fully planned and coordinated ...From:TEDxTalksViews:25 1ratingsTime:10:48More inScience Technology

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Daily exercise could help to repair damage from heart failure

Posted: November 4, 2012 at 3:45 am

By Helen Lawson

PUBLISHED: 03:59 EST, 3 November 2012 | UPDATED: 04:13 EST, 3 November 2012

Strenuous daily exercise could help to repair the heart of someone who has just suffered a heart attack, according to a new study.

Researchers at Liverpool John Moores University found that vigorous regular exercise led to dormant stem cells in the heart becoming active. This stimulated the development of new heart muscle.

The findings, published in the European Heart Journal, suggest that scientists could soon be able to improve the quality of life for people suffering from heart disease or heart failure.

Vigorous daily exercise could lead to the heart generating new heart muscle cells, according to a study funded by the British Heart Foundation

This is the first study of its kind to suggest that a basic exercise regime could have the same effect on the heart as injecting growth chemicals to stimulate stem cells to produce new tissue.

The team of scientists, funded by the British Heart Foundation, studied healthy male rats for up to four weeks by exercising them on an intensity-controlled treadmill for half an hour, four times a week.

The rats on a high-intensity programme showed the greatest increase in the size of their hearts, as expected, but also their aerobic capacity - how well the heart, lungs and blood vessels work.

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Westwood, NJ Dentist Now Offering Cutting Edge Dental Stem Cell Banking

Posted: November 4, 2012 at 3:45 am

Dental stem cell banking has arrived in New Jersey. Dentist in Westwood NJ Trinity Dental Care now provides the opportunity for patients to store, or bank, their dental stem cells for use in future procedures. Call (201) 351-0661 for more information and scheduling.

Westwood, NJ (PRWEB) November 03, 2012

This cutting edge technology was first discovered at the National Institute of Health in 2001, while researching stem cells from bone marrow. Over the past decade, scientists and doctors have looked at many uses for dental stem cells. This has included repairing or regenerating bone, organs, skin, and most recently - teeth. It is now possible for a Westwood dentist to harvest your dental stem cells to take advantage of these future possibilities.

Mesenchymal stems cells have the possibility for being used in treating such life altering debilitating conditions as muscular dystrophy, stroke and myocardial infarction (heart attack), arthritis, corneal damage type 1 diabetes, spinal cord injury, and assisting with neurological diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers. The possibilities are phenomenal, and banking stem cells now may allow patients to participate in the usage of them later with dentists in Bergen County.

Stem cells help the body repair, regenerate, and renew itself. For quite a while, physicians have been utilizing noncontroversial umbilical cord blood or adult bone marrow stem cells to treat diseases such as leukemia. Over half a million families have privately stored their babies umbilical cord blood for its possible future medical uses.

Dental stem cells are convenient, easy, and affordable to harvest for collection, since they are available from any healthy tooth. Every person loses twenty baby teeth from age seven to twelve. Then many have teeth pulled prior to braces being placed.

Also, if you are going to have your wisdom teeth extracted by a dentist in Westwood NJ, stem cells can be banked from this procedure. All of these teeth have dental stems cells that can be banked. Rather than getting rid of these tooth or saving your childs baby teeth for the Tooth Fairy, Trinity Dental Care urges people to think about having them taken out as soon as they become loose and prior to falling out.

Preserving stem cells for a childs health holds the promise for a broad array of very important uses in the future. Banking dental stem cells now may provide protection for a childs health for the future.

To learn more about dental stem cell banking with a great Westwood dentist, call Trinity Dental Care at (201) 351-0561.

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Stem Cells Help Preserve Sperm of Male Cancer Patients

Posted: November 4, 2012 at 3:44 am

November 2, 2012

[WATCH VIDEO: Stem Cells Show Promise For Treating Infertility]

Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com Your Universe Online

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRIF) recently discovered that a stem-cell based approach to treat infertility was successful in non-human primates and could possibly be used by cancer patients who have become infertile as a result of chemotherapy.

In particular, patients who undergo chemotherapy or radiation therapy often become infertile due to the treatments that damage dividing cells; these cells include both cancer cells and spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs), stem cells that later on become sperm.

Before undergoing cancer therapy, some patients have the option to cryopreserve their sperm and use the cells later on to have children. However, while adult males have this option, prepubertal boys do not as they have not yet reached the age where they produce mature sperm and, as such, cancer treatments can cause them to become permanently infertile.

Men can bank sperm before they have cancer treatment if they hope to have biological children later in their lives, explained senior investigator Kyle Orwig, an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive medicine at the Pitt School of Medicine, in a press release. But that is not an option for young boys who havent gone through puberty, cant provide a sperm sample, and are many years away from thinking about having babies.

The preclinical study was recently published in the journal Cell Stem Cell.

This is the first study to demonstrate that transplanted spermatogonial stem cells can produce functional sperm in higher primates, remarked Orwig, who also serves as an investigator at the Magee-Womens Research Institute, in the statement. This is an important step toward human translation.

With the new findings, the scientists believe that the young male patients can possibly preserve their SSCs prior to having cancer therapy. These cells can later on be transplanted when they end their cancer treatment and when they reach the point of sexual maturity. The team of investigators examined this possible option by cyropreserving SSCs from monkeys prior to treatment of a chemotherapy drug.

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