by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 8, 2015 | Stem Cell News
When the White House opened a new Tumblr account recently, they featured a number of letters written to President Obama. Amongst those letters was one authored by 15-year-old Gavin Nore. Gavin had met with Barrack Obama in 2007, before Obama had won his first term as...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 7, 2015 | Stem Cell News
Hugh Fagan recently had a happy reunion with the doctor who performed a life-saving procedure on him more than 6 years ago. Mr Fagan’s life was saved by Dr Colleen Delaney when she performed a cord blood transplant to help him beat an aggressive form of leukaemia. Mr...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 6, 2015 | Stem Cell News
Researchers have discovered why the differentiation of pluripotent stem cells created in laboratories can sometimes lead to cells with damaged DNA. The good news is that a simple modification to the stem cell culture used may fix the problem, leading to safer stem...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 5, 2015 | Stem Cell News
Preliminary findings from a new clinical trial has indicated that a treatment for arthritis using stem cells may be possible in the near future. Participants in the trial saw a large reduction in the pain they experienced from their arthritis and had an...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 2, 2015 | Cord Blood Banking
The process of cord blood volume reduction involves removing the plasma and red blood cells from umbilical cord blood. It is done for a number of reasons including: To store the sample in a “ready-to-use” state that can be thawed and used very quickly Less DMSO...
