Stem Cell Treatment Stem Cell Therapy

by Leigh Matthews on November 18, 2013

A new encapsulation technique has been developed using seaweed and a hydrogel scaffold to increase the effectiveness of stem cell therapy in healing heart tissue after a heart attack.

Publishing the results in the Journal of the American Heart Association, Dr. W. Robert Taylor, professor of medicine at Emory and Georgia Tech and director of Emorys cardiology division, noted that while advances had been made in saving the lives of those suffering myocardial infarction (heart attack), those who did survive often suffered from heart failure due to the tissue damage caused by the attack. [click to continue]

by Leigh Matthews on November 11, 2013

Recovery after a traumatic brain injury is notoriously difficult and complicated, with many people experiencing permanent cognitive deficits as the brain is unable to fully heal. However, new research from the University of South Florida suggests that stem cells may be able to build a sort of bridge between the damaged region of the brain and a healthy area of brain where neural stem cells are still active. Could this biobridge be the key to helping the brain help itself? [click to continue]

by Leigh Matthews on November 4, 2013

A team of stem cell scientists at Boston Childrens Hospital have developed a new way of using induced pluripotent adult stem cells that offers benefits for disease modelling. The re-specification technique turns iPSCs into haematopoietic stem cells and progenitor cells, thereby making them more relevant for the study of diseases of the blood, in contrast to skin cells or other partially differentiated stem cells ordinarily used in such research. [click to continue]

by Leigh Matthews on October 28, 2013

It sounds like science fiction but it just became science fact: Stem cell scientists have used specialised magnets to pull stem cells from a rats brain, without apparent harm to the animal. The potential for this nanotechnology is enormous as it could be used to harvest brain stem cells from patients with Parkinsons disease, Huntingtons, multiple sclerosis, even autism in order to carry out research and devise new treatments, and all without drastically invasive surgery. [click to continue]

by Leigh Matthews on October 21, 2013

Stem cell treatment for spinal cord injury has been the focus of clinical trials in Switzerland for around a year but up until now the novel therapy remained unavailable in the US. However, late last month the US Food and Drug Administration approved a clinical trial request made by StemCells Inc. to investigate the spinal cord stem cell therapy, with plans to enroll twelve patients in the trial. [click to continue]

by Leigh Matthews on October 14, 2013

The US Food and Drug Administration has issued approval for a stem cell patent filed by Cellular Dynamics International. The patent covers a new method of stem cell creation that could change the way researchers carry out their work, as well as how stem cells may be used clinically to treat illnesses.

Finding ways to create a large volume of stem cells for transplantation or to facilitate multiple laboratory experiments has proven difficult for a variety of reasons but newer techniques allow scientists to control the cells differentiation and proliferation much more carefully than in previous years. [click to continue]

by Leigh Matthews on October 7, 2013

Ottawa Hospital is the site of Canadas new national public cord blood bank which launched this week and started receiving donations of umbilical cord blood. The new service will collect stem cells from cord blood that would otherwise have been discarded as medical waste. [click to continue]

by Leigh Matthews on September 30, 2013

Being a stem cell scientist may sound glamorous but the reality is that youre not going to be making headline news every day, if ever. Like any scientific profession, stem cell science involves hard work, day in and day out, for years, with the possibility that no major breakthroughs will ever happen. However, smaller successes that dont make national news but which earn you respect amongst your peers are something to strive for and there is the added bonus of this being a growing area of research that tends to attract substantial funding worldwide. [click to continue]

by Leigh Matthews on September 24, 2013

Scientists at the University of Buffalo have uncovered an interesting role played by stem cells in atherosclerosis development that could revolutionize cardiovascular medicine and the prevention of heart attacks and strokes.

Publishing their findings in PLoS One, Thomas R., Cimato and colleagues revealed that the animal research done previously by researchers at Columbia University also extends to human subjects. < ?php include 'includes/sctLeader.php';?>

In their paper they describe how so-called bad cholesterol, low density lipoprotein, stimulates stem cells to be released from bone marrow, with an associated increase in the development of atherosclerotic plaques. Researchers have previously noted an increased risk of heart disease in patients receiving donor stem cells so is this tied to the same mechanism? [click to continue]

by Leigh Matthews on September 16, 2013

Whenever a patient receives an organ transplant there is a risk that their body will reject the foreign tissue, which is why transplant patients are usually given immunosuppressant medications to calm down the immune systems response, at least initially. Patients may also have immune system ablation prior to a transplant in order to reduce the likelihood of the donor organ being rejected. [click to continue]

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