The first clinical trial of human embryonic stem cells to report any effects shows they are safe and can improve vision, according to a report in the Lancet medical journal.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=stem+cells&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt
Read the Rest...Scientists have successfully replicated purified Alzheimer’s disease neurons with stem cells for the first time in a landmark, multi-year study – an achievement that may lead to critical new understanding of the disease, the scientists saidSource:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=stem+cells&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt
Read the Rest...Some heart bypass patients are receiving cardiac stem cell transplants to try to repair damage.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=stem+cells&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt
Read the Rest...NEW YORK (Reuters) – Before treatment, the 51-year-old graphic artist was legally blind, unable to read a single letter on a standard eye chart. She has suffered from Stargardt's disease, the most common form of macular degeneration in young patients, since she was a teenager, and it was getting progressively worse. A second patient, aged [...]
Read the Rest...POWAY, CA– – Vet-Stem, Inc. today announced that over 8,000 animals have now been treated with Vet-Stem cell therapy.Vet-Stem began providing stem cells to veterinarians in 2004 and has now provided stem …Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=stem+cells&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt
Read the Rest...A team of researchers at UC Davis has pioneered a technique to use stem cells to smother the genetic problem that causes Huntington's disease.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=stem+cells&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt
Read the Rest...cientists with the new Children’s Research Institute at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified the environment in which blood-forming stem cells survive and thrive within the body, an important step toward increasing the safety and effectiveness of bone-marrow transplantation. (2012-01-26)Source:http://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Stem_Cells
Read the Rest...New anti-cancer research has led to the development of a novel class of chemical inhibitors that specifically target cancer cells with pluripotency.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?ei=UTF-8&p=IPS+stem+cells+therapy&eo=UTF-8
Read the Rest...Cancer treatments designed to block the growth of blood vessels were found to increase the number of cancer stem cells in breast tumors in mice, suggesting a possible explanation for why these drugs don’t lead to longer survival, according to a new study.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=stem+cells&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt
Read the Rest...The survival of the endangered snow leopard is looking promising thanks to Monash University scientists who have, for the first time, produced embryonic stem-like cells from the tissue of an adult leopard. (2012-01-23)Source:http://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Stem_Cells
Read the Rest...Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) are a promising avenue for cell replacement therapy in neurologic diseases. For example, mouse and human iPSCs have been used to generate dopaminergic (DA) neurons that improve symptoms in rat Parkinson’s disease models. (2012-01-25)Source:http://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Stem_Cells
Read the Rest...Glioblastoma, a lethal brain cancer, is one of the most resistant to available therapies and patients typically live approximately 15 months. (2012-01-25)Source:http://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Stem_Cells
Read the Rest...Human stem cells capable of giving rise to any fetal or adult cell type are known as pluripotent stem cells. It is hoped that such cells, the most well known being human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), can be used to generate cell populations with therapeutic utility. (2012-01-25)Source:http://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Stem_Cells
Read the Rest...A significant obstacle to progress in understanding psychiatric disorders is the difficulty in obtaining living brain tissue for study so that disease processes can be studied directly. (2012-01-26)Source:http://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Stem_Cells
Read the Rest...Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have used an innovative mathematical technique to find markers that effectively predict how deadly a cancer will be. (2012-01-17)Source:http://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Stem_Cells
Read the Rest...For the first time ever, stem cells from umbilical cords have been converted into other types of cells, which may eventually lead to new treatment options for spinal cord injuries and multiple sclerosis, among other nervous system diseases. (2012-01-18)Source:http://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Stem_Cells
Read the Rest...Fruit flies don’t have noses, but a huge part of their brains is dedicated to processing smells. Flies probably rely on the sense of smell more than any other sense for essential activities such as finding mates and avoiding danger. (2012-01-20)Source:http://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Stem_Cells
Read the Rest...What is happening with stem cells as the hope for major cures for disease, brain and nervous system disorders?Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?ei=UTF-8&p=IPS+stem+cells+therapy&eo=UTF-8
Read the Rest...HOUSTON, Jan. 20 (UPI) — U.S. researchers are undergoing a phase I safety study using a child's umbilical cord blood stem cells to try to restore hearing loss.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=stem+cells&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt
Read the Rest...From tracking activities within bacteria to creating images of molecules that make up human hair, several experiments have already demonstrated the unique abilities of the revolutionary imaging technique called multi-isotope imaging mass spectometry, or MIMS, developed by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). MIMS can produce high-resolution, quantitative three-dimensional images of stable isotope tags [...]
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