Liane Wimhurst reports, Reuters, Aug 3, 2016. Watch video: Scientists create lab-grown miniature tissues that have the properties of the human ‘midbrain’ and will help researchers develop treatments for diseases such as Parkinson’s. Read More…

By Christopher Wanjek, Live Science, July 18, 2016 Scientists have coaxed stem cells to grow new cartilage on a scaffold shaped like the ball of a hip joint. This is a major step toward being able one day to use a patient’s own cells to repair a damaged joint, thus avoiding the need for extensive…

Written by Caroline Craven, Health Line, Jun 24, 2016. Treatments involving stem cells have shown promising results in the battle against multiple sclerosis, but FDA approval still awaits. There’s a lot of hype about stem cell therapy and how it can stop multiple sclerosis (MS) in its tracks. But it’s taking a long time for…

Science Daily, Apr 4, 2016. Stem cell therapies capable of regenerating any human tissue damaged by injury, disease or ageing could be available within a few years, following landmark research led by UNSW Australia researchers. The repair system, similar to the method used by salamanders to regenerate limbs, could be used to repair everything from…

By Alexandra Ossola, Popular Science, March 16, 2016. Of the 4,000 Americans waiting for heart transplants, only 2,500 will receive new hearts in the next year. Even for those lucky enough to get a transplant, the biggest risk is the their bodies will reject the new heart and launch a massive immune reaction against the…

By KAT LONG, Wall Street Journal-Mar 9, 2016. Two studies offer encouraging results for possible alternative to risky surgical implants. The best treatment options for cataracts and corneal blindness today involve possibly risky surgical implants, but new research may point to the growing potential for less-invasive stem-cell therapies. An international team of scientists, led by…

By ALEXANDRA WOLFE, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, February 05, 2016. Susan L. Solomon, co-founder of the New York Stem Cell Foundation left a career in law and business for science. Her goal: A cure for diabetes. One day last week, at a lab in New York City, a heart cell was beating in a petri…

BY CHRIS WOOD, GIZMAG MEDICAL, FEBRUARY 05, 2016. Scientists have used stem cells for everything from regrowing corneas to inducing the heart to repair itself, and it might even be possible to use them to heal damaged lungs. Now, researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center have, for the first time, successfully identified a…

By Alice Park, TIME, HEALTH MEDICINE, February 05, 2016. Researchers have zeroed in on one the driving forces behind hair loss, and it’s closely related to aging. Anyone who starts losing their hair is familiar with the phenomenon: you used to have an enviously full head of hair in your teens, but the older you…

BBC. February 01, 2016 A US company is using a combination of computer aided design, 3D fabrication and stem cells to create bone replacements. EpiBone uses a CT scan of the area needing a bone replacement and produces a scaffold from an animal bone which has been stripped of all its cellular material. Stem cells…