Categoría: News
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Statement From The Stem Cell Institute Regarding Decision to Close Costa Rican Operations
The Stem Cell Institute announced today that it proactively and independently made the business decision in early June to close its clinic and lab in Costa Rica and centralize all operations in Panama City, Panama. This decision was made voluntarily. This decision, which came after careful consideration, was reached in response to Costa Rica’s unpredictable…
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Pluristem’s Off-The-Shelf Placenta-Derived Cell Therapies
Pluristem announced that its "off the shelf" placental stem cells will be the focus of upcoming talking at investor and medical conferences. The company Pluristem is currently in Phase I trials assessing its unique bio-reactor expanded placental stem cells for the treatment of critical limb ischemia. In contrast to other therapies that use the patient’s…
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Identification of Peptides Which Show Potential To Generate Cancer Stem Cell Specific Immune Responses
The use of the immune system to target cancer has been a therapeutic goal for over a century. The advantage of immunotherapy is the possibility of targeting cancer throughout the body in a non-toxic manner, thus allowing destruction of metastasis, and induction of immunological memory to protect from relapse. Unfortunately with exception of the recent…
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Success Stems From Adult Cells
The use of adult stem cells for conditions besides bone marrow transplant is most prevalent in the area of heart failure. Since the original study of Strauer et al in 2001 in which a 46-year old patient was administered bone marrow stem cells after a heart attack and experienced a profound improvement in cardiac function,…
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Stem Cells Restore Tissue Affected By Acute Lung Injury
Researchers from the University of California San Francisco presented data today at the ATS 2010 International Conference in New Orleans demonstrating activity of adult stem cells in treatment of acute lung injury. This is a common condition in intensive care units that causes respiratory failure and often leads to death. The cause of acute lung…
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Stem Cell Institute Panama Clinic Case Report of Successful Treatment of Heart Failure Patient Published
Adult stem cell therapy is currently in numerous clinical trials in the United States and Internationally. A sample of ongoing trials can be seen at www.clinicaltrials.gov if you search for the words "stem cell". In clinical trials the objective is to determine safety (in Phase I), efficacy in an unblinded manner (Phase II) and efficacy…
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Dylan’s hope (Stem Cell Therapy for Cerebral Palsy)
The possibility of using stem cells to treat cerebral palsy has been suggested by several scientists based on the ability of these cells to: a) stimulate regeneration of damaged nervous system tissue; b) to prevent ongoing death of neurons; and c) to directly turn into, or "differentiate" into neurons. This is explained in the video…
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Hope for Brain Injury Victims
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major health problem caused by a sudden trauma to one or more areas of the brain. Today the conventional method of treating patients with TBI is based on administration of supplements to rebalance the brain’s chemistry. In the early phases of TBI reduction of the ongoing inflammation using various…
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Stem Cells Regrow Crucial Hearing Cells in Mice
Hearing loss is a significant problem. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders 15 percent of Americans between 20 and 69, or 26 million people, have high frequency hearing loss caused by noise. Antibiotics and genetic disorders have also been identified as causative factors. Recently a study led by Dr. Kazuo…
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Stem Cells Have GPS to Generate Proper Nerve Cells
One of the main questions in stem cell therapy is how the injected cells "know" to find their way into the specific parts of the body where they are needed. The most common example of stem cells homing is during bone marrow transplant. In this situation donor stem cells are administered to the recipient intravenously,…