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Cytomedix’s AutoloGel System Highlighted in Two Presentations at the 4th Congress of the World Union of Wound Healing …

Posted: September 5, 2012 at 3:20 pm

GAITHERSBURG, MD--(Marketwire -09/05/12)- Cytomedix, Inc. (CMXI), a fully integrated regenerative medicine company commercializing and developing innovative platelet and adult stem cell technologies for wound and tissue repair, today announced that the Company's AutoloGel System will be highlighted in an oral abstract and a poster presentation at the 4th Congress of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies (WUWHS 2012) being held from September 2-6, in Yokohama, Japan.

The AutoloGel System is a device for the production of autologous platelet rich plasma ("PRP") gel, and is the only PRP device cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") for use in wound management.

"The Impact of Autologous Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Gel on Chronic Wounds" will be presented September 5th from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. JST as part of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicines in Wound Healing session. The poster, OR 206, will be presented by Laura Parnell, MSc, CWS, Precision Consulting on behalf of Carelyn P. Fylling, RN, MSN, CWS, CLNC, Vice President of Professional Services of Cytomedix and lead author on the poster.

Key Study Findings (all data reflects mean outcomes)

The study concluded that AutoloGel PRP Gel "initiated rapid size reduction in long-standing non-healing wounds of multiple etiologies in multiple health care sites even in patients with compromised status."

In addition, Dr. Chugo Rinoie, DPM, ABPO, CWS, Chief of Podiatric Surgery, Wound Healing Center, Methodist Hospital of Southern California, Arcadia, Calif., and Medical Director, Millennia Wound Management, Inc., Los Angeles, will present Poster 125, entitled "Healing Complex, Severe Diabetic and Ischemic Wounds in Japan Using Platelet-Rich Plasma Gel" in the Exhibit Hall as part of the Diabetic Foot, Critical Limb Ischemia and Foot Care session.

"We are honored to have these two presentations of positive data in support of the use of AutoloGel to accelerate wound healing in a variety of chronic wounds selected for presentation at WUWHS 2012, as more than 1,200 abstracts were submitted for inclusion at this prestigious international Congress," noted Martin P. Rosendale, Chief Executive Officer of Cytomedix. "The data from these studies support and validate previous studies showing that AutoloGel significantly and reliably improves the rate of healing, speed and progress to healing as compared with previous experience with standard wound care alone. The complexity and co-morbidities associated with the wounds treated in these studies would have excluded them from any randomized controlled trial, making the findings from these real-world studies even more compelling."

"We believe we will continue to generate data such as these through the comprehensive collection of evidence we are undertaking through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Coverage with Evidence Development program. We are confident such data will continue to strongly support the ongoing coverage for autologous PRP gel for the benefit of the various stakeholders in improving clinical wound care outcomes while lowering overall costs," added Mr. Rosendale.

About the Congress of the World Union of Wound Healing SocietyThe Congress of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies is held once every four years and provides an international forum for announcement of the latest research relating to wound healing that draws between 3,500 to 5,000 clinicians, researchers and professionals who serve the wound care markets around the world. The Congress also helps to ensure the exchange of information, the improvement and development of education, international person-to-person support and the promotion of industrial collaboration. The ultimate aim is to develop the field of wound healing. Despite the fact that "wounds" are a fundamental component and important target for surgery, there are still many factors that have yet to be clarified or fully understood.

About Cytomedix, Inc. Cytomedix, Inc. is a fully integrated regenerative medicine company commercializing and developing innovative platelet and adult stem cell separation products that enhance the body's natural healing processes. The Company's advanced autologous technologies offer clinicians a new treatment paradigm for wound and tissue repair. The Company's patient-derived PRP systems are marketed by Cytomedix in the U.S. and distributed internationally. Our commercial products include the AutoloGel System, cleared by the FDA for wound care and the Angel Whole Blood Separation System. The Company is developing novel regenerative therapies using our proprietary ALDH Bright Cell ("ALDHbr") technology to isolate a unique, biologically active population of a patient's own stem cells. A Phase 2 trial evaluating the use of ALDHbr for the treatment of ischemic stroke is underway. For additional information please visit http://www.cytomedix.com.

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Can gene therapy cure fatal diseases in children?

Posted: September 5, 2012 at 3:19 pm

ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2012) That low bone density causes osteoporosis and a risk of fracture is common knowledge. But an excessively high bone density is also harmful. The most serious form of excessively high bone density is a rare, hereditary disease which can lead to the patient's death by the age of only five. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden are now trying to develop gene therapy against this disease.

In order for the body to function, a balance is necessary between the cells that build up the bones in our skeletons and the cells that break them down. In the disease malignant infantile osteopetrosis, MIOP, the cells that break down the bone tissue do not function as they should, resulting in the skeleton not having sufficient cavities for bone-marrow and nerves.

"Optic and auditory nerves are compressed, causing blindness and deafness in these children. Finally the bone marrow ceases to function and, without treatment, the child dies of anemia and infections," explains Carmen Flores Bjurstrm. She has just completed a thesis which presents some of the research at the division for Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy in Lund.

The researchers' work focuses on finding alternatives to the only treatment currently available against MIOP, namely a bone-marrow transplant. This treatment can be effective, but it is both risky and dependent on finding a suitable donor.

Gene therapy requires no donor, as stem cells are taken from the patients themselves. Once the cells' non-functioning gene has been replaced with a healthy copy of itself, the stem cells are put back into the patient.

Great hopes have been placed on gene therapy as a treatment method but the work has proven to be more difficult than expected. The method is used today for certain immunodeficiency diseases, and has also been applied to a blood disorder called thalassemia.

"So far, the method is not risk-free. Since it is impossible to control where the introduced gene ends up, there is a certain risk of it ending up in the wrong place and giving rise to leukemia. This is why gene therapy is only used for serious diseases for which there is no good treatment," says Carmen Flores Bjurstrm.

The Lund researchers have conducted experiments with gene therapy in both patient cells and laboratory animals. The next step is to conduct trials on patients. The trials will probably take place at the hospital in Ulm, Germany, which currently treats the majority of children in Europe suffering from MIOP.

MIOP is a rare disease: in Sweden a child is born with the condition approximately once every three years. Worldwide, the incidence of the disease is one case for every 300 000 births. It is, however, more common in Costa Rica where 3-4 children per 100 000 births have the disease.

"But there are several other genetic mutations that lead to other osteopetrosis diseases. If we manage to treat MIOP, it may become possible to treat these other conditions as well," hopes Carmen Flores Bjurstrm along with her supervisor, Professor Johan Richter.

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Progenitor Cell Therapy, a NeoStem Company, Invited to Present at Two Conferences in September

Posted: September 5, 2012 at 2:16 pm

NEW YORK, Sept. 5, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NeoStem, Inc. (NBS) ("NeoStem" or the "Company"), a cell therapy company, today announced that Company management of a NeoStem company, Progenitor Cell Therapy ("PCT"), an internationally recognized contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has been invited to present on its core expertise in development of commercial manufacturing processes for cell therapy at two cell therapy conferences in September. At each, PCT will offer its unique perspective as an industry leader in contract development and manufacturing of cell therapy products, with over 12 years of exclusive cell-therapy focused experience.

Timothy Fong, Ph.D, M.B.A, PCT's Vice President, Technology and Product Development, will be sharing PCT's expertise in cell therapy manufacturing with a focus on commercialization. At IBC Life Sciences' Cell Therapy Bioprocessing Conference, he will chair a panel on quality assurance and controls and will give a presentation entitled "From Concept to Product: Considerations for Developing a Robust Commercial Manufacturing Process", which will include considerations for developing a robust commercial manufacturing process. He will also speak at the Stem Cells USA and Regenerative Medicine Congress on "Cell manufacturing considerations for first-in-world stem cell therapeutics".

Dr. Fong stated, "As a cell therapeutic progresses from concept to product, the development of a commercial manufacturing process may contain unexpected technical and quality issues. The development path should follow several defined steps. My presentations will discuss the key steps in the process and highlight critical areas that need to be addressed to develop a successful commercial manufacturing process. PCT helps clients bridge the gap between discovery and patient care through efficient transfer of cell-based therapies from laboratory into clinical practice."

NeoStem and PCT invite you to attend the conference(s), see Dr. Fong's talks, and connect with the PCT team at PCT's booths. If you are a colleague of PCT or NeoStem, PCT can offer you a registration discount. Please contact PCT at bdm@pctcelltherapy.com for more details.

IBC Life Sciences' 2nd Annual Cell Therapy Bioprocessing Conference

Terrapinn 4th Annual Stem Cells USA and Regenerative Medicine Congress

About NeoStem, Inc.

NeoStem, Inc. continues to develop and build on its core capabilities in cell therapy capitalizing on the paradigm shift that we see occurring in medicine. In particular, we anticipate that cell therapy will have a large role in the fight against chronic disease and in lessening the economic burden that these diseases pose to modern society. We are emerging as a technology and market leading company in this fast developing cell therapy market. Our multi-faceted business strategy combines a state-of-the-art contract development and manufacturing subsidiary, Progenitor Cell Therapy, LLC ("PCT") with a medically important cell therapy product development program, enabling near and long-term revenue growth opportunities. We believe this expertise and existing research capabilities and collaborations will enable us to achieve our mission of becoming a premier cell therapy company.

Our contract development and manufacturing service business supports the development of proprietary cell therapy products. NeoStem's most clinically advanced therapeutic, AMR-001, is being developed at Amorcyte, LLC ("Amorcyte"), which we acquired in October 2011. Amorcyte is developing a cell therapy for the treatment of cardiovascular disease and is enrolling patients in a Phase 2 trial to investigate AMR-001's efficacy in preserving heart function after a heart attack. Athelos Corporation ("Athelos"), which is approximately 80%-owned by our subsidiary, PCT, is collaborating with Becton-Dickinson in the early clinical exploration of a T-cell therapy for autoimmune conditions. In addition, pre-clinical assets include our VSELTM Technology platform as well as our mesenchymal stem cells product candidate for regenerative medicine. Our service business and pipeline of proprietary cell therapy products work in concert, giving us a competitive advantage that we believe is unique to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Supported by an experienced scientific and business management team and a patent and patent pending (IP) portfolio, we believe we are well positioned to succeed.

For more information on NeoStem, please visit http://www.neostem.com. For more information on PCT, please visit http://www.pctcelltherapy.com.

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Cytomedix's AutoloGel System Highlighted in Two Presentations at the 4th Congress of the World Union of Wound Healing …

Posted: September 5, 2012 at 2:15 pm

GAITHERSBURG, MD--(Marketwire -09/05/12)- Cytomedix, Inc. (CMXI), a fully integrated regenerative medicine company commercializing and developing innovative platelet and adult stem cell technologies for wound and tissue repair, today announced that the Company's AutoloGel System will be highlighted in an oral abstract and a poster presentation at the 4th Congress of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies (WUWHS 2012) being held from September 2-6, in Yokohama, Japan.

The AutoloGel System is a device for the production of autologous platelet rich plasma ("PRP") gel, and is the only PRP device cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") for use in wound management.

"The Impact of Autologous Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Gel on Chronic Wounds" will be presented September 5th from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. JST as part of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicines in Wound Healing session. The poster, OR 206, will be presented by Laura Parnell, MSc, CWS, Precision Consulting on behalf of Carelyn P. Fylling, RN, MSN, CWS, CLNC, Vice President of Professional Services of Cytomedix and lead author on the poster.

Key Study Findings (all data reflects mean outcomes)

The study concluded that AutoloGel PRP Gel "initiated rapid size reduction in long-standing non-healing wounds of multiple etiologies in multiple health care sites even in patients with compromised status."

In addition, Dr. Chugo Rinoie, DPM, ABPO, CWS, Chief of Podiatric Surgery, Wound Healing Center, Methodist Hospital of Southern California, Arcadia, Calif., and Medical Director, Millennia Wound Management, Inc., Los Angeles, will present Poster 125, entitled "Healing Complex, Severe Diabetic and Ischemic Wounds in Japan Using Platelet-Rich Plasma Gel" in the Exhibit Hall as part of the Diabetic Foot, Critical Limb Ischemia and Foot Care session.

"We are honored to have these two presentations of positive data in support of the use of AutoloGel to accelerate wound healing in a variety of chronic wounds selected for presentation at WUWHS 2012, as more than 1,200 abstracts were submitted for inclusion at this prestigious international Congress," noted Martin P. Rosendale, Chief Executive Officer of Cytomedix. "The data from these studies support and validate previous studies showing that AutoloGel significantly and reliably improves the rate of healing, speed and progress to healing as compared with previous experience with standard wound care alone. The complexity and co-morbidities associated with the wounds treated in these studies would have excluded them from any randomized controlled trial, making the findings from these real-world studies even more compelling."

"We believe we will continue to generate data such as these through the comprehensive collection of evidence we are undertaking through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Coverage with Evidence Development program. We are confident such data will continue to strongly support the ongoing coverage for autologous PRP gel for the benefit of the various stakeholders in improving clinical wound care outcomes while lowering overall costs," added Mr. Rosendale.

About the Congress of the World Union of Wound Healing SocietyThe Congress of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies is held once every four years and provides an international forum for announcement of the latest research relating to wound healing that draws between 3,500 to 5,000 clinicians, researchers and professionals who serve the wound care markets around the world. The Congress also helps to ensure the exchange of information, the improvement and development of education, international person-to-person support and the promotion of industrial collaboration. The ultimate aim is to develop the field of wound healing. Despite the fact that "wounds" are a fundamental component and important target for surgery, there are still many factors that have yet to be clarified or fully understood.

About Cytomedix, Inc. Cytomedix, Inc. is a fully integrated regenerative medicine company commercializing and developing innovative platelet and adult stem cell separation products that enhance the body's natural healing processes. The Company's advanced autologous technologies offer clinicians a new treatment paradigm for wound and tissue repair. The Company's patient-derived PRP systems are marketed by Cytomedix in the U.S. and distributed internationally. Our commercial products include the AutoloGel System, cleared by the FDA for wound care and the Angel Whole Blood Separation System. The Company is developing novel regenerative therapies using our proprietary ALDH Bright Cell ("ALDHbr") technology to isolate a unique, biologically active population of a patient's own stem cells. A Phase 2 trial evaluating the use of ALDHbr for the treatment of ischemic stroke is underway. For additional information please visit http://www.cytomedix.com.

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First Evidence that Adipose Stem Cell-Based Critical Limb Ischemia Treatment is Safe & Effective is published in …

Posted: September 5, 2012 at 4:14 am

- Safe and Effective Results from Adipose Derived Adult Stem Cells manufactured by RNL BIO

SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Korean researchers, reporting the results of a major study in the Circulation Journal, found that the transplantation adipose (fat) derived stem cells resulted in the regeneration of blood vessels in patients who were otherwise expecting to receive limb amputations due to damaged arteries and lack of blood circulation.

Researchers at Pusan National University, led by Dr. Han Cheol Lee, describe how patients with critical limb ischemia (hereafter, CLI, example of which include Buergers Disease and diabetic foot ulcers) were injected with adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cell manufactured by RNL BIO.

As a result of the remarkable adipose stem cell process of RNL BIO, researchers found that immediate new blood vessel generation was identified. (The title of article is "Safety and Effect of Adipose Tissue-Derived Stem Cell Implantation in Patients With Critical Limb Ischemia")

CLI results from lack of circulation due to small artery damage and subsequent tissue necrosis. Patients with severe CLI often face limb amputation. Buergers Disease, or diabetic foot ulcer, are of the same kind. Risk factors are diabetic mellitus, hypertension, high cholesterol and smoking. There is no known cure to date.

Currently percutaneous transluminal angioplasty or PTA may treat 60-70% of patients with CLI, but it doesnt work with those who suffer from Buergers Disease. Working under approval to conduct compassionate use research of stem cell to treat CLI by intra-muscular injection of adipose tissue derived stem cells in December, 2008 (KFDA IND approval # 1273), the researchers in this study enrolled 15 subjects: 12 with Buergers Disease, and 3 with Diabetic foot ulcers. 300 million stem cells were injected into each patients leg. No complications were observed, even six months after injection.

Only five patients, as they all had expected, required minor amputation during follow-up, and all amputation sites healed completely. At 6 months, significant improvement was noted in pain and in claudication walking distance. Digital subtraction angiography before and 6 months after ATMSC implantation showed formation of numerous vascular collateral networks across affected arteries.

Dr. Jeong-Chan Ra, President of RNL Stem Cell Technology Institute, said, "This new therapy through adipose tissue derived mesenchymal stem cell is expected to offer new hope for patients with CLI, hope that had been difficult to find before."

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‘Missing link’ ties blood stem cells, immune system

Posted: September 5, 2012 at 4:14 am

LOS ANGELES 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.

The research was done using human bone marrow, which contains all the stem cells that produce blood during post-natal life.

"We felt it was especially important to do these studies using human bone marrow, as most research into the development of the immune system has used mouse bone marrow," said the study's senior author, Dr. Gay Crooks, co-director of UCLA's Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research and a co-director of the cancer and stem-cell biology program at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. "The few studies with human tissue have mostly used umbilical cord blood, which does not reflect the immune system of post-natal life."

The research team was "intrigued to find this particular bone marrow cell, because it opens up a lot of new possibilities in terms of understanding how human immunity is produced from stem cells throughout life," said Crooks, a professor of pathology and pediatrics.

Understanding the process of normal blood formation in human adults is a crucial step in shedding light on what goes wrong during the process that results in leukemias, cancers of the blood.

The findings appeared Sept. 2 in the early online edition of the journal Nature Immunology.

Before this study, researchers had a fairly good idea of how to find and study the blood stem cells of the bone marrow. The stem cells live forever, reproduce themselves and give rise to all the cells of the blood. In the process, the stem cells divide and produce cells in intermediate stages of development called progenitors, which make various blood lineages, like red blood cells or platelets.

Crooks was most interested in the creation of the progenitors that form the entire immune system, which consists of many different cells called lymphocytes, each with a specialized function to fight infection.

"Like the stem cells, the progenitor cells are also very rare, so before we can study them, we needed to find the needle in the haystack," said Lisa Kohn, a member of the UCLA Medical Scientist Training Program and first author of the study.

Previous work had found a fairly mature type of lymphocyte progenitor with a limited ability to differentiate, but the new work describes a more primitive type of progenitor primed to produce the entire immune system, Kohn said.

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Cleveland researchers find key to stem-cell therapy for MS patients: Discoveries

Posted: September 5, 2012 at 1:10 am

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- One of the most promising and exciting treatment avenues for multiple sclerosis is the use of a patient's own stem cells to try to stop -- or even repair -- some of the disease's brain tissue damage.

But injecting a patient with a dose of his or her own bone-marrow stem cells was actually a pretty crude method of treating the disease, because no one was quite sure how or why it worked. Last year, doctors at the Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University began trying this for MS patients in a Phase 1 clinical trial after positive results were seen in mice.

Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the myelin sheaths that surround and protect nerve cells. When myelin is damaged, the nerve cells are exposed and unable to do their job, which is sending signals to the brain and back. This results in the loss of motor skills, coordination and cognitive abilities.

Like many other researchers using stem cells, the local group didn't know exactly how their treatment worked, but they knew that when they gave these human mesenchymal stem cells, or MSCs, to mice with a mouse version of the disease, the mice got better.

Figuring out why the mice improved could help researchers see if the MSC injection will work well in a particular patient before the patient is injected, and possibly augment or improve the treatment as well.

In May, the research group at CWRU, headed up by neurosciences professor Robert Miller, discovered exactly what it is in the stem-cell soup that has a healing effect: a large molecule called hepatocyte growth factor, or HGF. The team published their results in Nature Neuroscience.

Miller's group knew that it could be the stem cells themselves, by coming in physical contact with the myelin damage, that were having a healing effect. Or it could be something the stem cells secreted into the surrounding liquid culture, or media, they were grown in, that was key. HGF is secreted by the stem cells, Miller said.

The team identified the HGF by first injecting only the liquid the stem cells were grown in, but not the stem cells themselves, into the mice they were studying. The mice got better, so the team knew whatever was helping was in the media.

Next, they isolated the small, medium and large molecules from the media and tried each size on the mice. Only the large-molecule treatment had the healing effect, meaning that whatever was helping was somewhere in that mix, Miller said.

"The molecule that jumped out at us was HGF," he said, because it is the right size, is made by MSCs, and in a couple of studies had been shown to be involved in myelin repair.

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First Evidence that Adipose Stem Cell-Based Critical Limb Ischemia Treatment is Safe & Effective is published in …

Posted: September 5, 2012 at 1:10 am

- Safe and Effective Results from Adipose Derived Adult Stem Cells manufactured by RNL BIO

SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Korean researchers, reporting the results of a major study in the Circulation Journal, found that the transplantation adipose (fat) derived stem cells resulted in the regeneration of blood vessels in patients who were otherwise expecting to receive limb amputations due to damaged arteries and lack of blood circulation.

Researchers at Pusan National University, led by Dr. Han Cheol Lee, describe how patients with critical limb ischemia (hereafter, CLI, example of which include Buergers Disease and diabetic foot ulcers) were injected with adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cell manufactured by RNL BIO.

As a result of the remarkable adipose stem cell process of RNL BIO, researchers found that immediate new blood vessel generation was identified. (The title of article is "Safety and Effect of Adipose Tissue-Derived Stem Cell Implantation in Patients With Critical Limb Ischemia")

CLI results from lack of circulation due to small artery damage and subsequent tissue necrosis. Patients with severe CLI often face limb amputation. Buergers Disease, or diabetic foot ulcer, are of the same kind. Risk factors are diabetic mellitus, hypertension, high cholesterol and smoking. There is no known cure to date.

Currently percutaneous transluminal angioplasty or PTA may treat 60-70% of patients with CLI, but it doesnt work with those who suffer from Buergers Disease. Working under approval to conduct compassionate use research of stem cell to treat CLI by intra-muscular injection of adipose tissue derived stem cells in December, 2008 (KFDA IND approval # 1273), the researchers in this study enrolled 15 subjects: 12 with Buergers Disease, and 3 with Diabetic foot ulcers. 300 million stem cells were injected into each patients leg. No complications were observed, even six months after injection.

Only five patients, as they all had expected, required minor amputation during follow-up, and all amputation sites healed completely. At 6 months, significant improvement was noted in pain and in claudication walking distance. Digital subtraction angiography before and 6 months after ATMSC implantation showed formation of numerous vascular collateral networks across affected arteries.

Dr. Jeong-Chan Ra, President of RNL Stem Cell Technology Institute, said, "This new therapy through adipose tissue derived mesenchymal stem cell is expected to offer new hope for patients with CLI, hope that had been difficult to find before."

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Research and Markets: Stem Cells – Current Topics in Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine Series

Posted: September 5, 2012 at 1:10 am

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/cwsq7k/stem_cells) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Stem Cells" to their offering.

This third in the Current Topics in Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine Series contains a careful selection of new and updated, high-quality articles from the well-known Meyer's Encyclopedia, describing new perspectives in stem cell research. The approximately 40 chapters are divided into four sections: Basic Biology, Stem Cells and Disease, Stem Cell Therapy Approaches, and Laboratory Methods, with the authors chosen from among the leaders in their respective fields.

The two volumes represent an essential guide for students and researchers seeking an overview of the field.

Key Topics Covered:

Introduction to Stem Cells

Basic Biology

Stem Cells, Embryonic

Stem Cells, Adult

Stem Cells in the Adult Brain: Neurogenesis

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Clinical Trial With Stem Cells Creates Hope For Parents Of Autistic Children

Posted: September 5, 2012 at 1:10 am

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Cases of autism have soared in recent years: one in every 88 children is diagnosed with the disorder. Now, a groundbreaking clinical trial will test whether a childs own stem cells the building blocks of the body might help.

Dr. Michael Chez of the Sutter Neuroscience Institute wants to look at the relationship between the immune system and the central nervous system, and it is his hope that he will be able to use stem cells to help behavioral and developmental issues in autistic children.

Elisa Rudgers son, Rydr, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at 11 months, he couldnt sit up on his own and required feeding tubes to eat. At 15 months, doctors gave Rydr his first infusion of banked cord blood stem cells that his parents saved while he was a newborn. His developmental delays diminished quickly.

After the first infusion after three months, he was crawling, six months he was standing, and nine months he was walking. said Rudgers.

Rudgers said that her 4-year-old son likes the spotlight because hes become something of a medical marvel. Hes gotten lots of attention.

Rydrs stem cells apparently helped at least partly rebuild his damaged brain. Now, Rydrs doctor is enrolling patients in a clinical trial to see if the same treatment thats helped this little boy, can help treat autism. Dr. Chez believes it can.

Theres enough encouraging evidence to think there may have a role to play here, but were opening a new door and thats the giant step. he said.

Can Rydrs reversal be repeated?

Many experts are skeptical, saying its unclear what or where the brain defect in autism actually is. Dr. Chez says stem cells could regenerate missing brain cells or help repair faulty connections between brain cells.

Either way, Ryders mom says, its worth a try.

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