BBC, Oct 3, 2016. The 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan for discoveries about the secrets of how cells can remain healthy by recycling waste. He located genes that regulate the cellular “self eating” process known as autophagy. Dr Ohsumi’s work is important because it helps explain what…
WBHM – Press release, Sep 23, 2016. Researchers at UAB have found a new way to create stem cells, one they hope will lead to more efficient and personalized medical treatments. The findings were published Tuesday in Cell Reports. “In humans, we have more than 200 types of cells,” says Kejin Hu, lead researcher and…
Medical Science News, September 21, 2016. Lund University stem cell researcher awarded Fernström prize for study on repairing damaged brain. Is it possible to convert a patient’s own skin cells into functioning nerve cells? Or insert healthy genes to reprogram the cells of a damaged brain? Stem cell researcher Malin Parmar at Lund University in…
Fox News, September 12, 2016. When Kris Boesen’s car fishtailed on a wet road, hitting a tree and slamming into a telephone poll, the 21-year-old never thought he would walk again. But results from an early-stage clinical trial using stem cells to restore movement have given the 21-year-old promise that his spinal cord injury may…
Written by Honor Whiteman, Medical News Today, September 8, 2016. A 21-year-old man left paralyzed after a spinal cord injury has regained the use of his arms and hands, thanks to an experimental stem cell treatment performed by researchers from the Keck Medical Center at the University of Southern California. In March of this year,…
Medical Xpress, Aug 30, 2016. A research team led by investigators at The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has generated functional human and mouse tissue-engineered liver from adult stem and progenitor cells. Tissue-engineered Liver (TELi) was found to contain normal structural components such as hepatocytes, bile ducts and blood vessels. The study…
By DAVID PRENTICE. Research Director, Charlotte Lozier Institute, Daily Caller-Aug 22, 2016. Stem cell therapies and their lifesaving results are arguably the best kept medical secret. Stem cells are currently being used in several thousand FDA-approved clinical trials, are treating tens of thousands of patients every year, and cumulatively over 1.5 million people have been…
By Kerry Kolasa-Sikiaridi. Greek Reporter, Aug 20, 2016. Researchers working with stem cells at Stanford University look to create heart cells from stem cells. The project, led by cardiovascular medicine instructor and Greek native, Dr. Elena Matsa, PhD, along with Joseph C. Wu, the Director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and a professor in the…
By Tanushri Sundar, The Stanford Daily, Aug 12, 2016. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered the combinations of biological and chemical signals needed to rapidly generate human cell types from human embryonic stem cells, according to Stanford Medicine News. Pure populations of up to 12 cell types can now be created…
EurekAlert (press release), Aug 4, 2016. Replacing and repairing human tissue is becoming feasible largely due to advances in the use of stem cells. Unfortunately, obstacles still stand in the way of engineering these malleable cells to self-renew or expand. One of those obstacles is an incomplete picture of how cells interact with their environment….
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…
By ASHLEY WELCH, CBS NEWS, January 27, 2016 It’s a pursuit that seems more like the plot of a science fiction movie than an actual goal of serious researchers around the world. But a number of scientists are fiercely working toward what was once only attainable in fables and fairy tales: they want to end…
CBS NEWS, By MARY BROPHY MARCUS, December 17, 2015, 2:04 PM Science magazine has unveiled its 2015 “Breakthrough of the Year” and the winner is a gene-editing technology that experts say will change life as we know it — potentially revolutionizing medicine, basic science, and agriculture. The gene-editing tool called CRISPR — derived from a…
CBS NEWS, November 05, 2015 DALLAS — Legendary Cowboys running back Tony Dorsett was diagnosed in 2013 with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease that has been linked to depression, dementia and to suicides of NFL players, CBS Dallas reports. Two years later, Dorsett is trying a controversial stem cell treatment thanks to one…
By ASHLEY WELCH, CBS NEWS October 06, 2015. An experimental gene therapy has improved eyesight in patients with a rare, inherited eye disease that can cause blindness, according to its developer, Spark Therapeutics Inc. The company said it plans to apply to the Food and Drug Administration next year for approval to market the treatment….
By ASHLEY WELCH, CBS NEWS, September 29, 2015 The first patient has received a pioneering human embryonic stem cell operation in the U.K. that doctors hope will be effective against a common cause of blindness. According to a statement released today, the procedure was performed on a 60-year-old woman with a condition called age-related macular…