Microencapsulated stem cells for tissue repairing in cell-based myocardial therapy
Stem cells have the unique properties of self-renewal, pluripotency and a high proliferative capability, which contributes to a large biomass potential. Hence, these cells act as a useful source for acquiring renewable adult cell lines. This, in turn, acts as a potent therapeutic tool to treat various diseases related to the heart, liver and kidney, as well as neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. However, a major problem that must be overcome before it can ... Readmore
Fractures that fail to heal now can be treated with Adult stem cells
Adult stem cells can offer a new treatment for the 10 to 20 percent of fractures that fail to heal. “Lack of fracture repair often leads to several surgeries, long periods of immobilization, pain, bone deformities, and sometimes death. The precise reason why a patient’s fracture does not heal remains unknown in most cases,” said senior investigator Dr. Anna Spagnoli, of the University of North Carolina. A deficiency in adult stem cells, which normally become reparative cells in response to... Readmore
Can Celiac Disease be treated with stem cells…?
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSC), mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) and embryonic-like stem cells (ESC) found in Umbilical cord blood can cure many incurable diseases. Umbilical cord blood is well-recognized to be useful for treating hematopoietic and genetic disorders. Leukemia Stem Cell Therapy was considered a miracle for a 12 year old girl ,that eliminated her coeliac disease. This kind of transplant is thought to have improved or stabilised a number of auto-immune diseases, including lupus, rheuma... Readmore
Stem Cell therapy Can Help Regenerate Parathyroid
Success is taking high parameters. University of Michigan researchers a step closer to parathyroid gland transplants that could one day prevent a currently untreatable form of bone loss associated with thyroid surgery. The scientists were able to induce embryonic stem cells to differentiate into parathyroid cells that produced a hormone essential to maintaining bone density. We used human embryonic stem cells as a model for ways to work out the recipe to make parathyroid cells,” says Gerar... Readmore
Attacking cancer stem cells …a way to treat Mesothelioma
A new cancer treatment is on the horizon since scientists made a breakthrough discovery in the understanding of how tumor cells grow. The basis of the treatment is that a tiny portion of cancer cells, which have been named cancer stem cells, is the cause of the malignant nature of tumors. “We think it’s going to be very possible to develop safe and effective agents targeting cancer stem cells, based on the work we’ve already achieved to date,” said John Lewicke, Oncomed&#... Readmore
Benefits of Cord Blood to be know by Expectant Parents
The blood in a baby’s umbilical cord has the power to save lives. By choosing to bank this cord blood, parents could help their child, a family member or even a stranger. Expectant parents need to know more about cord blood benefits and called it for more education amongst expectant parents about cord blood banking. “Stem cells from umbilical cord blood are a medical resource that is increasingly being used to save lives, and our new brochure is designed to ensure that more pregnant women ha... Readmore
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
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
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
Clinical Trials for Critical Limb ischemia going to begin soon
Dr. Chris Kontos, co-director of the Duke Heart and Vascular Group, will be coordinating the trial that focuses on the stem cell regime developed by Pluristem Thera¬peutics. In lab tests on animals, the use of stem cells not only improved blood flow, but also grew new blood vessels. Theray is based on an allogenic concept using stem cells derived from Placenta. These cells are one size fit all, they come from material that is thrown away, and outpatients can be injected in a process that takes ... Readmore
