by Vinny Negi, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Diabetes develops when the body fails to manage its blood glucose levels. One form of diabetes causes the body to not respond to insulin at all. Called Type 1 diabetes, or T1D, this autoimmune disease happens when the body’s defense system mistakes its own insulin-producing cells as foreign...
Category: <span>Stem Cell Therapy</span>
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‘Black box’ of stem cell transplants opened in world-first blood study
New research into the long-term dynamics of transplanted stem cells in a patient’s body explains how age affects stem cell survival and immune diversity, offering insights that could make transplants safer and more successful Peer-Reviewed Publication WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE For the first time, scientists have tracked what happens to stem cells decades after a...
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Do stem-cell transplants increase cancer risk? Long-lived recipients offer clues
People who have received transplants for blood cancer, some more than 40 years ago, do not have high rates of potentially cancer-causing mutations Haematopoietic stem cells from donors have been used to treat hundreds of thousands of people with blood cancer and other blood disorders.Credit: SPL Ever since the first blood-forming stem cells were successfully...
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Why Stem Cell Therapy Costs Vary Around the World?
Stem cells are gaining ground as reparation for different diseases, immune disorders, and injuries, including multiple sclerosis (MS). Despite this, this therapy’s cost may differ greatly depending on where stem cells are transplanted. Popular MS drugs can cost upwards of $3,000 per month, according to Fox News. Clinics like Swiss Medica offer various stem cell therapies,...
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Human skin map gives ‘recipe’ to build skin and could help prevent scarring
Cell segmentation stain of human skin. Using the xenium cell segmentation antibody panel. Pink = cell membrane. Blue = nuclei. Yellow/Green = internal cell stain. Credit: Wellcome Sanger Institute For the first time, researchers have created a single cell atlas of prenatal human skin to understand how skin forms, and what goes wrong in disease....
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Is Stem Cell Therapy Effective?
Many patients wish to benefit from regenerative medicine but are unsure if it’s worth pursuing, as they don’t know how well cell therapy works. It’s certainly effective for many diseases. For some conditions, cell therapy is presumed effective and is still undergoing clinical research. Affordable stem cell therapy options are presented on the Booking Health...
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Stem cell therapy reverses type 1 diabetes in world first
Credit: Cell (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.09.004 A groundbreaking discovery has recently brought hope to millions of people living with type 1 diabetes around the world. In a world first, scientists have successfully used stem cell therapy to reverse type 1 diabetes in a woman. This achievement is being hailed as a major medical breakthrough, as it offers a potential cure...
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New findings on stem cells and development of cancer
Peer-Reviewed Publication Umea University image: Francesca Aguilo, associate professor at the Department of Molecular Biology at Umeå University and leader of the study. Credit: Mattias Pettersson A study led by Umeå University, Sweden, have made new discoveries about how stem cells develop and transition into specialised cells. The discovery can provide increased understanding of how...
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Scientists use stem cells to recreate a hallmark of Parkinson’s disease in human neurons
Slide showing the development of Lewy bodies. Credit: Armin Bayati from Peter McPherson Lab, The Neuro Lewy bodies are a hallmark of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and other related neurological conditions. Understanding why and how they develop is critical to developing better treatments. A study from The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) of McGill University, in collaboration...
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Harnessing stem-cell derivatives to treat CNS diseases
he efficacy of Aleeto is currently being assessed in two double-blind investor-initiated trials (IITs) at Beijing Tiantan Hospital, affiliated to Capital Medical University, the neurology department of which is among the top in China. Preliminary results have demonstrated superior efficacy of Aleeto compared to commercially available drugs in treating both disorders. “The neuroprotective effects of...