Archive for September, 2009
Stem Cell Therapy for Cerebral Palsy
Now a days treating incurable diseases is not a major issue, Stem Cell Therapy has helped many patients getting treatment for incurable diseases of which Cerebral Palsy in one disease. John Ballard: I recently returned from having sc therapy for stroke repair which I suffered 3+ years ago. The place I went is called XCell Center, Germany. The experience was a very good one, they don’t make outlandish promises, they use your own SC’s and they are reasonable with their expense. Nicolas... Readmore
Reasons why to bank Infant Umbilical Cord
Why is a baby’s own cord blood significant? The thought is because there is only a single chance in a person’s life to harvest their own umbilical cord blood and that, of course, is following the birth of the individual. The cord is commonly discarded after birth at any rate, but the cord is rich in a person’s blood stem cells. Overall, the criticism has not been over the matter of storing the cord blood itself, but the tribulations crop up from the profit-making entities hustling this as ... Readmore
Paste of Stem Cell for keeping Bone Healthy
New stem cell studies at the University of Maryland Dental School demonstrate that surgeons could one day routinely use strong, moldable, and injectable pastes to regenerate needed bone tissue to repair broken bones, fractures, genetic defects, even combat bone wounds. The Dental School presentation showed that human stem cells seeded in tissue engineering scaffolding exhibited “excellent attachment and osteogenic differentiation,” which is the process of laying down new bone materia... Readmore
Research is going on to cure Kidney Disease by Stem Cells
The supply of kidneys for transplants falls tragically short of demand, leading many people to buy and sell kidneys on the black market. It’s still science fiction to take one cell from a patient and grow a new kidney (or heart, liver, pancreas, etc.) instead of waiting for a donated organ to become available. Our immune systems are constantly on the attack against invaders, and this attack often damages our own tissues. Other cells repair the damage. Some researchers believe that we can t... Readmore
Can ALS disease be treated with Stem Cell Therapy?
ALS is often called Lou Gehrig’s disease, but the face of ALS today is Stephen Hawking. He’s the wheelchair-bound British astrophysicist who has lived with the crippling disease for almost 50 years. He got married, had children, and rose to international fame as a professor at Cambridge after his diagnosis. My favorite part is the photo: he can still smile. The life expectancy for most ALS patients is less than 5 years. What makes Hawking so different? Age at diagnosis, support from ... Readmore
Thamirabharani diagnosed with Thalassaemia is cured by Indian doctors by Stem Cells
When others of her age played with dolls, eight-year-old Thamirabharani was taking blood transfusions. Born with thalassaemia, she has, however, found hope. She was detected with the disease when she was a year and a half and has been undergoing regular blood transfusions since Hematologist Revathy Raj and his team from Apollo Gleneagles hospital in Chennai gave a new lease of life to the little girl from Coimbatore through stem cell transplantation. Doctors said she is now fully cured and has n... Readmore
Should we store Baby’s Cord Blood for treatment?
On Feb 2009, I was watching the repeat telecast of Channel 8 drama “Baby Blues” (starring Chen Li Ping, Michelle Chong). There was this part where Michelle Chong starred as the mother of a girl who had leukemia and needed a bone marrow transplant urgently. Both Michelle and her husband were not suitable donors for the bone marrow transplant. Plus they did not store their daughter’s cord blood when she was born. And Michelle happened to be heavily pregnant with her second child. Her daughte... Readmore
Human umbilical cord blood stem cells can be used to treat myocardial infarction and stroke
University of Arizona Medical School, Tucson, Arizona, USA discovered that Myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke are the first and third leading causes of death in the U.S.A. accounting for more than 1 in 3 deaths per annum. Despite interventional and pharmaceutical advances, the number of people diagnosed with heart disease is on the rise. Therefore, new clinical strategies are needed. Cell-based therapy holds great promise for treatment of these diseases and is currently under extensive precli... Readmore
Stem Cell Technology could cure Breast Cancer
GENova Biotherapeutics, Inc., (”GENova”), released important information about its innovative method for destroying breast cancer cells, using stem cell technology. GENova’s approach is based on cutting-edge technology that enables us to identify the protein expression in the original cancer stem cells that give rise to tumors. “By recognizing the existence of cancer stem cells, we have taken a great step towards understanding this complex disease. Now that we know how to... Readmore
Stem Cell Discovered Proteins helps to Make and Maintain Skin
Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Monterotondo have discovered two proteins that control when and how these stem cells switch to being skin cells. Researchers suspected that a family of proteins called C/EBPs might be involved in this process, as they were known to regulate it in other types of stem cell, but had so far failed to identify which C/EBP protein controlled the switch in skin. Claus Nerlov and his group at EMBL Monterotondo discovered it was not one pr... Readmore
Should reserve Baby’s Umbilical Cord said by Parents
Parents who are expecting a baby have a number of decisions before the baby is born. They have to settle on everything from the baby’s name to whether they are planning to breast-feed or formula-feed to their choice and a pediatrician. There’s a bundle of stuff to decide as the birth date approaches. One of the things that a great deal of new parents does not realize is available, is the capability for cord blood banking. This may sound strange to you, but it does have its place medically. W... Readmore
