Stem Cells
Stem cells help some ailing Houston Zoo creatures
With two big cats needing attention, surgeon Brian Beale of Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists and stem-cell specialists at InGeneron Inc ...
Human model of Huntington’s disease created from skin’s stem cells
An international consortium of Huntington’s disease experts, including several from the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center at ...
Stem cell transplantation into mouse cochlea may impact future hearing loss therapies
Researchers in Japan who evaluated the risks and efficacy of transplanting two varieties of stem cells into mouse cochlea have ...
Stem cells injected into mice with muscular dystrophy
For the first time, scientists have turned muscular dystrophy patients' fibroblast cells (common cells found in connective tissue) into stem ...
Stem cells may help reverse diabetes
In a new study, researchers have successfully reversed diabetes in mice using stem cells, thereby paving the way for a ...
Growing your own bones
In just a few years, you might be able to grow your own replacement bones from stem cells ...
Harvard Bioscience stem cells in Russian tracheal transplants
(Nasdaq:HBIO), a life sciences tools company, says the first two successful stem cells laryngotracheal transplants have been completed in Russia, ...
Central body to oversee ‘biobanks’ storing human tissue
THE CREATION of a single Government-funded body to oversee the retention of human tissue samples has moved a step closer ...
‘Waking up’ hair follicles could help cure baldness
Experts have found a way of waking the hair follicles to help restore a natural growth ...
Spinach ‘reduces epigenetic bowel cancer risk’
Scientists have shown that eating spinach could partially offset the risks of developing the cancers associated with a carcinogen in ...
Researchers say Parkinson’s cure may lie in the human nose – USA Today
University of Louisville researchers hoping to find a cure for Parkinson's disease have discovered an unlikely potential treatment — stem ...
Some embryonic stem cells more powerful than first believed
Here's a biggie uncovered by scientists led by Samuel L. Pfaff of the Salk Institute: A small number of human ...
Blood-brain barrier building blocks forged from human stem cells
The blood-brain barrier may be poised to give up some of its secrets as researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...
Stem cells in the news and Yokohama, Japan
The tenth annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is winding down in Yokohama, Japan. But ...
Fake meat: is science fiction on the verge of becoming fact?
The race to make fake meat just got interesting. Two scientists on opposite sides of the world both claim to ...
A huge step for gene therapy
A new gene therapy from researchers at National Taiwan University Hospital gives hope to children born with an extremely rare ...
Scots-US tie-up on stem cells
Scientists in Scotland and California are to collaborate on medical research that could give new hope to millions with life-threatening ...
How kidneys keep hold of early stem cells
Scientists have identified two proteins that are required to maintain a supply of stem cells in the developing kidneys of ...
‘Master molecule’ may improve stem cell treatment of heart attacks
Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that a single protein molecule may hold the key to turning cardiac stem cells into ...
Tracking stem cells in the body
Researchers at the University have developed new methods to track stem cells and further understanding of what happens to them ...
Diabetes drug may kill cancer stem cells, study says
Results from a new study suggest low doses of the diabetes drug metformin may effectively destroy pancreatic cancer stem cells, ...
European researchers crack embryonic stem cells mystery
In their groundbreaking study, a European team of researchers evaluated embryonic stem cells grown in a pure undifferentiated state. The ...
Stem cells help reconstruct cancer patient’s breast
A potentially revolutionary way to help breast cancer survivors uses a woman's own stem cells to repair missing or disfigured ...
New method uses stem cells to create cardiac muscle patches
A cutting-edge method developed at the University of Michigan Center for Arrhythmia Research successfully uses stem cells to create heart ...
Controversial stem cell treatment improves stroke patients
In a new controversial stem cell treatment named the PISCES (Pilot Investigation of Stem Cells in Stroke) trial study, five ...
Company gets OK from New Zealand for stem-cell therapy
Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. has received approval for its stem-cell therapy drug in New Zealand, the second country to approve the ...
Midwest patient receives successful stem cell transplant to cure sickle cell disease
Chicagoan Ieshea Thomas is the first Midwest patient to receive a successful stem cell transplant to cure her sickle cell ...
