Etiqueta: stem cells
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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?
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Athersys May Get Up To $111M from Pfizer In Stem-Cell Deal
Pfizer signed a deal worth $111 million with Athersys involving development of the MultiStem product in the area of inflammatory bowel disease.
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Stem-Cell Activators Switch Function, Repress Mature Cells
Because of their central role, the proteins could offer a safe and novel therapeutic target in many cancers. The proteins that arrest the multiplication of the cell may be considered as tumor suppressor proteins.
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Effort to Regenerate Injured Spinal Cords Turns to a New Model
University of Florida McKnight Brain Institute received a $2.4 million National Institutes of Health grant to study regenerative process of the Mexican axolotl salamander with the aim of applying biological lessons learned to spinal cord injury.
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Stem Cell Therapy Aids the Return of Lava Man
After 17 months Lava Man is scheduled to make a come-back this Saturday at Hollywood Park in the Native Diver Handicap. The horse was treated with his own fat derived stem cells by Dr. Doug Herthel.
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TaiGen Biotechnology Reports Phase I and Preclinical Data for TG-0054 at the 2009 American Society of Hematology Meeting
The ability of TG-0054 to cause mobilization of EPC may support its use in other areas besides hematology. For instance the body may be able to grow new blood vessels around the areas of ischemia.