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Category: Clinical updates

Man regains use of arms and hands with stem cell therapy

Published on: 27th March 2019

In 2016, Kris Boesen suffered a devastating cervical spine injury when he was just 20 years old. The injury happened after a serious car accident in Bakersfield, USA, which left him paralysed from the neck down. It was expected that he would remain paralysed for life.

Personalised stem cell therapy for spinal cord injuries

Published on: 13th March 2019

Phase I/II clinical trials have investigated the benefits of stem cell therapy for chronic paraplegia (spinal cord injury), using a drug manufactured with patients’ own stem cells.

London patient becomes second person to be clear of HIV following stem cell transplant to treat his cancer

Published on: 6th March 2019

The unnamed London patient’s stem cell treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma has brought fresh hope to the 37 million people currently living with HIV.

Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplant Corrects Irritable Bowel Disease

Published on: 26th February 2019

A baby girl, Zhao Jiaxin, has become the first child in China to receive a cord blood stem cell transplant to cure an inherited type of Irritable Bowel Disease.

Stem Cells Engineered To Produce Insulin For Type 1 Diabetes

Published on: 25th February 2019

For the first time, researchers have transformed human stem cells into mature insulin-producing cells. The breakthrough could lead us a step closer to developing a cure for Type 1 diabetes.

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