By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, January 23, 2012. Two women with untreatable eye diseases said they had dramatic improvements in their vision after injections of human embryonic stem cells, making it the first documented time these controversial cells have helped someone. “This is a big step forward for regenerative medicine, said Dr. Steven Schwartz at UCLA’s…
By Miriam Falco, CNN, November 21, 2011. A 50-year-old man from Trion, Georgia, is the first person to be injected with stem cells in the upper part of the spinal cord, making him yet another pioneer in the scientific quest to use stem cells to heal. Richard Grosjean received the treatment Friday. He is part…
By Caleb Hellerman, CNN, November 14, 2011. On a June day in 2009, a 39-year-old man named Ken Milles lay on an exam table at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. A month earlier, he’d suffered a massive heart attack that destroyed nearly a third of his heart. “The most difficult part was the uncertainty,”…
By Miriam Falco, CNN, October 06, 2011. For the first time, researchers have succeeded in creating human embryonic stem cells by injecting DNA from a skin cell into an unfertilized egg, according to a study published Wednesday. To achieve what is being called an “important step” in stem cell research, scientists in New York used…
BBC, 20 November 2007. Human skin cells have been reprogrammed by two groups of scientists to mimic embryonic stem cells with the potential to become any tissue in the body. The breakthrough promises a plentiful new source of cells for use in research into new treatments for many diseases. Crucially, it could mean that such…
BBC News, October 09, 2007 Do stem cells really offer a miracle cure? Stem cells are the building blocks of life. With the potential to grow into any type of tissue in the body, they seem to offer hope for patients with nowhere else to turn. Patients with muscular dystrophy, Parkinson’s and severed spinal chords…