Umbilical cord blood transplantation: the first 25 years…
Published on: 2nd August 2013News stories of successful cord blood treatments bring hope to many, and people are often amazed with how far science has come and continues to go.
Category: Clinical update
Cerebral palsy ‘successfully treated’ using stem cells
Published on: 11th June 2013Doctors claim to have successfully treated a child suffering with cerebral palsy with stem cells for the first time.
Stem cells from fat outperform those from bone marrow
Published on: 22nd May 2013A 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.
Study of umbilical cord blood to treat traumatic brain injury
Published on: 20th May 2013Traumatic 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.
BBC news: scientists make ‘laboratory-grown’ kidney
Published on: 17th April 2013A kidney "grown" in the laboratory has been transplanted into animals where it started to produce urine, US scientists say.
Cord blood stem cells CD133+ for heart applications
Published on: 15th April 2013New research has found that stem cells derived from human cord blood could be an effective alternative in repairing heart attacks.
Fat stem cells show promise against brain cancer
Published on: 18th March 2013Stem cells taken from patients' own fat tissue could potentially be used to deliver treatments direct to brain tumours, say scientists after early laboratory tests.
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