Categoría: News
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Ahmedabad-based institutes get patent to use stem cells in kidney transplant
According to an article IndianExpress.com, an international patent has been issued to the G R Doshi K M Mehta Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre (IKDRC) and Dr HL Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences (ITS) from Ahmedabad, Indian for utilization of stem cells in treatment of patients having undergone kidney transplantation. Given that we…
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Coach’s fight a team effort
Sam Harrell is a well-known Ennis football coach and father of Texas Tech’s former quarterback Graham Harrell. Steve Betik has worked in construction for decades. Both of them suffer from multiple sclerosis. When they asked the Ennis chiropractor Dr. William Davis about using stem cells for their condition, his reaction was that it would be…
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Adult Stem Cells Healing Hearts
Adult stem cells are being more and more used in patients to achieve effects. In the treatment of patients with heart failure, Dr. David Prentice, discussed two studies in which adult stem cells appear to have some benefit. The first study was the result of a Brazil-Florida joint effort in which it was discovered that…
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Fat May Serve a Purpose in Stem Cell Research
Scientist Dr. Joseph Wu at the Stanford University School of Medicine has recently published a new and improved method to generate stem cells "artificially". For almost a decade there has been substantial controversy regarding the use of embryonic stem cells, with the debate becoming socially and politically focused as opposed to based on science: one…
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Stem Cells for HIV?
HIV infection causes its devastating effects on patients by destruction of the CD4 T helper cell and macrophage component of the immune system. Entry of the virus into these cells occurs via binding to the molecules CD4 and CCR5. Interestingly a group of patients who appear to be resistant to HIV infection have a mutation…
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Hope Through Stem Cell Therapy
Mary Posta suffers from multiple sclerosis, a debilitating disease that progressively degenerates the nervous system of its victims through stripping away the insulator proteins surrounding the nerves called myelin. In January of this year Mary Posta completed raising funds to be treated by Cellmedicine in Central America using stem cells and returned from treatment feeling…
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Scientists Develop Technique to Determine Ethnic Origin of Stem Cell Lines
This effort linked single-letter alterations in the genetic code — known as single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs — with people of known ethnic origins. This data provided a way to identify the ethnic heritage of a donor of any cell.
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Stem Cells Might Reverse Heart Damage From Chemo
The rats that received the cardiac specific stem cells had both preservation of cardiac function, and also regeneration of the damaged heart tissue.
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Stem Cell as Anti-Aging «Medicine»
In addition to the possible use of Stem-Kine for restoration/maintenance of circulating endothelial progenitor cells, the publication discusses the possibility of using such cells from sources outside of the body, for example cord blood.
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Adenosine inhibits chemotaxis and induces hepatocyte-specific genes in bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells
One of the major questions with adult stem cell therapy is how do the stem cells go to where they are needed?