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.
Turning ten is always a special milestone and that has definitely been the case for Future Health in 2012. As Europe’s first accredited private family stem cell bank and a UK Queen’s Award recipient we’ve been marking a decade as a pioneer in the expert collection and cryopreservation of stem cells for potential future use in medical treatments.
Bioengineers at Harvard have developed a gel-based sponge that can be molded to any shape, loaded with drugs or stem cells, compressed to a fraction of its size, and delivered via injection. Once inside the body, it pops back to its original shape and gradually releases its cargo, before safely degrading.
