Category: Stem Cell Issues

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) have launched a study to see if injecting a type of stem cell derived from a patient’s own fat tissue could improve healing and shoulder function after rotator cuff surgery.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Los Angeles –The investigators are partnering with a private firm—Space Tango,to send “induced pluripotent stem cells”  to the International Space Station for a month as part of an anticipated NASA mission in the spring.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Stem cell therapy is responsible for repairing diseased, injured tissue and other dysfunctionalities using stem cells or their derivatives.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Stem Cell Therapy is responsible for repairing diseased, injured tissue and other dysfunctionalities using stem cells or their derivatives.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Skeletal muscle – the type of muscle that attaches to bones and enables movement – is the most abundant tissue in the human body.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A Phase II clinical trial to assess mesenchymal adult stem cells as a disease-modifying therapy for Parkinson’s disease has been launched at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Many patients with multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, eventually develop resistance to one treatment after another.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A new type of stem cell – that is, a cell with regenerative abilities – could be closer on the horizon, a new study led by UNSW Sydney shows.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The first patient has enrolled in a Phase II clinical trial evaluating a stem cell therapy for the potential early treatment of traumatic injuries and their subsequent complications….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have created a drug that can lure stem cells to damaged tissue and improve treatment efficacy—a scientific first and major advance for the field of regenerative medicine.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Around 764,000 people in the US have cerebral palsy (CP) and around one in 10,000 babies are born each year with this condition.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A Mayo Clinic graduate student is looking to the stars as a new way to advance regenerative therapies for cancer. Rawan Al-Kharboosh, a Ph.D. candidate at Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Mount Sinai researchers have discovered a way to enhance the potency of blood-forming stem cells, potentially opening the door to a new approach for bone marrow transplantation

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Durham, NC – When it comes to regenerating damaged brain cells, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) induced using an EP4 antagonist are superior to MSCs induced without the antagonist

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ITHACA, N.Y. — A Cornell study provides important new insights into a common and deadly type of gastric cancer. Incidence of this cancer, called gastric squamous-columnar junction (SCJ) cancer, also known as gastroesophageal cancer….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Washington, D.C., – MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute has enrolled its first patient to a clinical trial to determine whether cardiac stem cells reduce inflammation….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – In experiments with mice and human tissue samples, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report evidence that neuronal stem cells in the part of the nose responsible for the sense of smell transform themselves to perpetuate….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – In experiments in mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have developed a way to successfully transplant certain protective brain cells without the need for lifelong anti-rejection drugs.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ROCHESTER, Minn. ― A phase I clinical trial is the first research monitored by the Food and Drug Administration that demonstrates the potential of regenerative therapy for hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) through collecting, processing….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – LOS ANGELES – Scientists from Sanford Burnham Prebys have created natural-looking hair that grows through the skin using human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), a major scientific achievement….