YALE UNIVERSITY Intravenous injection of bone marrow derived stem cells (MSCs) in patients with spinal cord injuries led to significant improvement in motor functions, researchers from Yale University and Japan report Feb. 18 in the Journal of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. For more than half of the patients, substantial improvements in key functions — such as ability to...
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‘Invisible’ stem cells evade natural killer cells using immune ‘off-switch’
by University of California, San Francisco Credit: CC0 Public Domain UC San Francisco scientists have discovered a new way to control the immune system’s ‘natural killer’ (NK) cells, a finding with implications for novel cell therapies and tissue implants that can evade immune rejection. The findings could also be used to enhance the ability of cancer...
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University of Miami leads groundbreaking trial for COVID-19 treatment
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IMAGE: CAMILLO RICORDI, M.D., DIRECTOR OF THE DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE (DRI) AND CELL TRANSPLANT CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HEALTH SYSTEM University of Miami Miller School of Medicine researchers led a unique and groundbreaking randomized controlled trial showing umbilical cord derived...
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Stem cell factory
The name Lonza comes from the river in Switzerland near where the company was originally founded more than a hundred years ago, As such, it has nothing to do with the biomedical products and services that Lonza provides. Lonza is active around the world and has around 15,000 employees with branches in the Netherlands as...
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What are totipotent stem cells & what can they do?
Paul Knoepfler Sometimes patients or my students ask me, “What are the best stem cells?” what information are they looking for? I think they often are looking for the most powerful stem cells so perhaps they should be asking, “What are totipotent stem cells?” Other times it seems what patients specifically want to know is what...
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Research dispels fears human stem cells contain cancer-causing mutations
by University of Exeter Credit: CC0 Public Domain Pioneering new research has made a pivotal breakthrough that dispel concerns that human stem cells could contain cancer-causing mutations. A team of scientists from the University of Exeter’s flagship Living Systems Institute has shown that stem cells contain no cancer mutations when they are grown in their most primitive or...
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The bull’s eye: New modified stem cells can deliver drugs specifically to tumor cells
by Tokyo University of Science Credit: CC0 Public Domain As humans evolve, cancer also evolves in parallel, making the race for finding efficient treatment methods for cancer patients challenging and constant. In addition to designing drugs for treatment, the delivery of these drugs to targeted organs is also a major challenge faced by the cancer research...
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World’s first: Drug guides stem cells to desired location, improving their ability to heal
SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE IMAGE: NEURAL STEM CELLS MATURING INTO ASTROCYTES (YELLOW). Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have created a drug that can lure stem cells to damaged tissue and improve treatment efficacy–a scientific first and major advance for the field of regenerative medicine. The discovery, published in the Proceedings of the National...
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Stem cells: new insights for future regenerative medicine approaches
INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIENCIA IMAGE: CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION IN A HUMAN INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL. CENTROMERES IN GREEN AND DNA IN MAGENTA. Stem cells are considered one of the most promising tools in the field of regenerative medicine because they are a cell type that can give rise to all the cells in our bodies and...
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Researchers create human airway stem cells from patients’ cells
by Boston Medical Center For the first time, researchers have successfully created airway basal stem cells in vitro from induced pluripotent stem cells by reprogramming blood cells taken from patients. Given that airway basal cells are defined as stem cells of the airways because they can regenerate the airway epithelium in response to injury, this study may help...