Categoría: News
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Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Success Using Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Secreted Factors in Animal Model
Stem cell researchers at Case Western Reserve have reported in Nature Magazine that the functional deficits caused by multiple sclerosis can be reduced by administering mesenchymal stem cell secreted factors. While previous studies have shown promising results using mesenchymal stem cells, this is the first time that such results have been reported without using the…
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Adult Stem Cell Therapy Successfully Treats Spinal Cord Injury
An interesting spinal cord injury study was published last week. The Turkish researchers tested two types of stem cells on spinal cord injured mice. The two cell types were native bone marrow cells and cultured repair stem cells called Mesenchymal stem cells. Native bone marrow cells contain bone marrow forming stem cells as well as…
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Stem cells back from outer space may solve mysterious illnesses of astronauts
Astronauts have a much higher incidence of infections in comparison to humans living under normal gravity. Dr. Millie Hughes-Fulford from the molecular biology department of University of California San Francisco is trying to figure out what may cause this difference. As part of her experiments she has been studying the stem cells that give rise…
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Legendary Texas Football Coach and Stem Cell Recipient Sam Harrell Returns to Coaching
In 2010, the debilitating effects of multiple sclerosis forced Sam Harrell to retire from his position as Head Football Coach at Ennis High School. But after receiving 3 courses of stem cell therapy at the Stem Cell Institute in Panama, Sam is returing to the gridiron once again. Brownwood Lion Head Coach, Bob Shipley announced…
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Quality time: Former Ennis coach Sam Harrell is counting his blessings despite having multiple sclerosis
ENNIS, TX — Sam Harrell’s three state football championships are celebrated in his home office. He has pictures, trophies and balls, and even more memories. For 32 years, Harrell worked in a profession where success is measured by a scoreboard in front of thousands. These days, life’s little victories — unaccompanied by cheers or Gatorade…
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New Stem Cell Therapy Guidelines Approved in Texas
The Texas Medical Board has approved new rules regulating adult stem cell therapies similar to the ones used to treat Governor Rick Perry last summer, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Friday. The rules were drafted by the state board, which licenses and disciplines doctors, at the request of Houston’s Dr. Stanley Jones, the same…
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First patient to get stem cell therapy identified
By Rob Stein, The Washington Post Embryonic stem cells have numerous pitfalls in addition to the ethical dilemmas. While the concept of a “blank slate” cell is extremely attractive in terms of generating new tissues for transplantation and organ replacement, the problem is that these cells are so young that they do not properly “know”…
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«The fight to walk» – spinal cord injury patient improving after stem cell therapy in Panama
Published March 31, 2012 By Sue Guinn Legg – Press Staff Writer Daniel Leonard is doing all he can to walk again, and after a recent course of stem cell treatment he’s as close as he has been since a few months after the 2005 injury that put him a wheelchair. He was 22 years…
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Great Day in Ft. Worth for Stem Cell Team
Saturday, March 31 was the annual MS Walk in Ft Worth. This year, thanks to the Stem Cell Institute and some of the area stem cell patients, several of us MS sufferers and stem cell patients met for the Walk. Here’s a picture of several of us who have been to Panama, or Costa Rica,…
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Making Blood Cells into Heart Cells
Vojdani et al. Hum Cell. 2011 Mar;24(1):35-42 One of the major debates in the area of stem cell therapy is whether adult stem cells are capable of directly transforming (differentiating) into new tissue, or whether the therapeutic effects of administered stem cells occur because of growth factors produced by the injected stem cells. There are…