Doctors claim to have successfully treated a child suffering with cerebral palsy with stem cells for the first time.
Just weeks after being given an intravenous stem cell treatment from umbilical cord blood, the symptoms of a boy who had been left in a vegetative state after a heart attack improved considerably.
<p<A new study appearing in the current issue of STEM CELLS Translational Medicine indicates that stem cells harvested from fat (adipose) are more potent than those collected from bone marrow in helping to modulate the body’s immune system.
Traumatic brain injury is the primary cause of pediatric trauma related morbidity and mortality. Currently there is no reparative therapeutic option available, and all interventions are designed to prevent injury progression or secondary brain injury.
A kidney "grown" in the laboratory has been transplanted into animals where it started to produce urine, US scientists say.
New research has found that stem cells derived from human cord blood could be an effective alternative in repairing heart attacks.
Stem cells taken from patients' own fat tissue could potentially be used to deliver treatments direct to brain tumours, say scientists after early laboratory tests.
Dentists may one day be able to replace missing teeth with ones newly grown from gum cells, say UK researchers.
