Stem Cells
Stomachs grown from stem cells could yield secrets of digestion
Stomach-related diseases are common, affecting millions of people. An estimated 25 percent of individuals in the United States are affected ...
‘Hearts-in-a-dish’: Gene editing and stem cell technologies unravel mysteries of heart disease
When a patient shows symptoms of cancer, a biopsy is taken...But the same can’t be done for heart disease, the ...
‘Brain blobs’ genetically engineered from stem cells can track effects of Zika virus
[C]ombined with gene editing techniques like CRISPR, it seems like there’s almost nothing you can’t just whip up in a ...
Pacemakers made out of human stem cells may replace electronic models in future
The very first functional pacemaker cells created out of human stem cells have been developed by scientists from the McEwen ...
“Cutting out” genes linked to muscle disorder may restore movement in patients
Scientists are using "gene scissors" to cut off the code of a defective gene that results in progressively weaker muscles ...
Doctors turn to stem cell regeneration to treat heart defects in babies
The 4-month-old on the operating table has a shocking birth defect, nearly half his heart too small or even missing...In ...
Vampire therapy: Can blood from the young fight aging?
Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel has expressed his reluctance to age quite vocally. He has also put his money where ...
Reprogramming stem cells into motor neurons could help patients with paralysis
[S]cientists developed a mechanism to directly reprogram stem cells into motor neurons. Cell reprogramming is a novel exploration in medical studies ...
Stem cell therapy may enter era of “Inject and see what happens”
According to Congress, the logical way [to bring revolutionary treatments to patients sooner] is the 21st Century Cures Act, a ...
Should FDA restrict our use of our own stem cells?
I believe that one of the next challenges in the wellness movement is the FDA’s control over your own stem ...
Reprogrammable genes may make donor transplants easier for patients
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a novel strategy to reprogram cells from one type to another in ...
How gene therapy might treat diseases once thought untreatable
What is gene therapy? [Gene therapy] is a way to fix a gene defect in a person’s cells. One way ...
Tumor cells can eat cancer-fighting stem cells, triggering breast cancer to reappear
What many [breast cancer] survivors worry about...is that their breast cancer may come back. It has puzzled scientists and health ...
Stem cell treatment may replace hearing aids as cure for deafness within 10 years
Scientists believe they are on the brink of a cure for congenital deafness. Researchers have produced stem cells to correct ...
Breakthrough synthetic nervous system performs “remarkably similar” to human system
In a breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists have grown intestinal tissues with functional nerves in a laboratory setup using human ...
‘Regenerative medicine’ and stem cell therapies hold potential for disease treatments despite grim headlines
Grim stories about the abuse of regenerative medicine and stem cell therapies have been in the headlines. Hundreds of international ...
Will Trump administration follow tradition and create a bioethics commission?
Beginning with the National Commission in 1974 to the current Presidential Commission, every presidential administration save that of George H.W ...
Multiracial patients struggle to find stem cell match
Hundreds of Canadians are waiting for stem-cell transplants, but only half of them will find a donor, according to Canadian ...
Sickle cell cure now seen as possible as scientists remove faulty gene with CRISPR
Researchers have found a way to repair the faulty gene that causes sickle cell disease, which they suggest is a ...
Brain injuries may be treatable using stem cell therapy
Results of a cellular therapy clinical trial for traumatic brain injury (TBI) using a patient’s own stem cells showed that ...
CRISPR spurring scientists to abandon embryonic stem cell research
The [JAX lab]...genetically engineers mice that it sells to researchers under a trademarked brand: JAX® Mice, it likes to boast, ...
Burn victims may recover quicker with stem cell skin grafts
Full thickness skin grafts are the golden standard for treating burn wounds. But most skin grafts for severe burns require ...
Schizophrenics have fewer nerve cells in their brain due to genetic mutation
Stem cells obtained from patients with schizophrenia carry a genetic mutation that alters the ratio of the different type of ...
Despite controversies, China follows same bioethical regulations as the West
[In 2015], Junjiu Huang and his research team at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit the ...
Search underway for ‘super donors’ to facilitate gene therapy
Our bodies’ cells didn’t evolve to flourish in a petri dish. Even fast-growing skin cells stop dividing and turn thin ...
How stem cell technology could revolutionize our food, medicine in our lifetime
Here are five benefits of stem cell research that we are likely to see within our lifetimes: ... 1. Regenerative ...
Live mice created from artificial eggs for first time
Scientists in Japan proved it is possible to take tissue cells from the tail of a mouse, reprogrammed them as stem ...