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Scientists have discovered a new type of stem cell in the skin that acts surprisingly like certain stem cells found in embryos: both can generate fat, bone, cartilage, and even nerve cells.
NeoStem, Inc. , which is pioneering the pre-disease collection, processing and long-term storage of adult stem cells for future medical need and holds the exclusive, worldwide license to VSEL technology that uses very small embryonic-like stem cells isolated from peripheral blood, announced today that an abstract authored by NeoStem-affiliated scientists was presented in a poster presentation at ...
( University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ) The second phase of a clinical trial testing a new stem-cell-based therapy on injured heart muscle has been launched by researchers at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. It is the only study site in the Texas Medical Center. Yesterday, heart attack patient Melvin Dyess, 49, received an intravenous infusion of either the ...
Researchers from the UCLA AIDS Institute and colleagues say they have shown that human blood stem cells can be engineered into cells that can target and kill HIV-infected cells, which potentially could be used against other chronic viral diseases.
Transplanting human stem cells from umbilical cords onto abnormally thin, cloudy corneas of lab mice significantly improved corneal transparency and increased thickness of animals' corneal stroma.
Scientists have rescued visual function in laboratory rats with eye disease by using cells similar to stem cells. The research shows the potential for stem cell-based therapies to treat age-related macular degeneration in humans.
LOS ANGELES - A new study shows stem cells can help conquer HIV inside the body.
( University of California - Los Angeles ) Researchers from the UCLA AIDS Institute and colleagues have for the first time demonstrated that human blood stem cells can be engineered into cells that can target and kill HIV-infected cells -- a process that potentially could be used against a range of chronic viral diseases. The study provides proof-of-principle -- that is, a demonstration of ...
IRVINE, Calif.----California Stem Cell, Inc. and Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy announced today that the FDA has granted orphan drug designation to MOTORGRAFT™, a stem cell-derived motor neuron product, for the treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy .
An international team of scientists has rescued visual function in laboratory rats with eye disease by using cells similar to stem cells. The research shows the potential for stem cell-based therapies to treat age-related macular degeneration in humans.
In a move long awaited by stem-cell researchers, the National Institutes of Health finally made available the first 13 new stem-cell lines eligible for federally funded study
After suffering three heart attacks prior to being diagnosed with heart failure in 1994, Aaron Wood of Waurika, Oklahoma, says that he can finally live a normal life after his successful stem cell treatment at the XCell-Center in Dusseldorf, Germany.
A drug that has become a mainstay of multiple myeloma treatment may outperform alternative therapies in re-establishing the immune system of patients who have received stem cell transplants from unrelated, partially matched donors, according to early clinical trial results to be presented by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators at the American Society of Hematology's (ASH) annual meeting ...
BOSTON | Several Massachusetts firms are forging ahead with ambitious stem-cell research plans, circumventing the heated debate over embryonic research by using other, less-controversial methods. Biocell Center, a European technology firm, has opened the first amniotic-fluid stem-cell bank in the United States in Medford, Mass., near Boston. Another Boston-area biotech firm, Advanced Cell ...
The body is a battle zone. Cells constantly compete with one another for space and dominance. Though the manner in which some cells win this competition is well known to be the survival of the fittest, how stem cells duke it out for space and survival is not as clear. A new study on fruit flies describes how stem cells win this battle by literally sticking around.
DEL MAR, Calif. , Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Diversified Holdings Corporation (Pink Sheets: ADHC) has announced, as part of its previously disclosed strategy to concentrate in developing innovative technologies in the life sciences sector, specifically targeting the fast growing stem cell arena, that the Company is actively seeking to acquire stem cell patents for the express ...
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