by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 25, 2015 | Stem Cell News
A young woman from Prince Albert, Canada, has saved the life of a U.S. man through a donation of stem cells. 26-year-old Blaire Broda was the stem cell donor who gave the cells to an anonymous recipient. With most stem cell registries, when a donation of stem...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 24, 2015 | Stem Cell News
A collaboration between scientists and biologists is helping to develop treatments for bile duct diseases using stem cells. They have developed a new method to create 3D bile duct structures from stem cells which may lead to new personalised medicine treatments...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 23, 2015 | Stem Cell News
Researchers have created mini-brains from stem cells in order to find a drug that treats a rare neurological disorder. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine had their work published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. The...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 22, 2015 | Stem Cell News
Iran’s Royan Institute has begun using stem cells to treat patients with kidney disease in a new clinical trial. The Institute is a non-profit research organisation that has been working in the fields of Reproductive Biomedicine and infertility treatments since 1991....
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 21, 2015 | Stem Cell News
Researchers from the Penn State College of Medicine have made a discovery that may help treat acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). The research, published in the Blood Cancer Journal, shows that exhausted immune cells may be responsible for patients having a relapse. AML is...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 20, 2015 | Stem Cell News
Researchers have made a discovery that indicates stem cells from umbilical cord blood may be used to improve cognition in Alzheimer’s patients. Researchers from the Rashid Laboratory for Developmental Neurobiology at the Silver Child Development Centre, University of...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 19, 2015 | Stem Cell News
Transplants using cord blood stem cells seem to be a fairly common occurrence in medicine today. The first successful cord blood transplant occurred 27 years ago, in 1988, when a young boy was successfully cured of Fanconi anaemia using the stem cells...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 18, 2015 | Stem Cell News
Gail Fatato was one of millions of people plagued by osteoarthritis, a debilitating disease that causes joint inflammation and paint. Gail was diagnosed in her 20s after she experienced pain while working as an aesthetician. X-rays of her knees showed that she had...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 17, 2015 | Stem Cell News
A recent breakthrough by scientists may have cured a disease that causes blindness in millions of people using stem cells. University of Oslo researchers have been using stem cells obtained from patient’s oral cavities to treat a blindness-causing illness. Limbal stem...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 16, 2015 | Stem Cell News
A new paper published in the journal Stem Cell Reports suggests that there are intrinsic differences among neural stem cells (NSCs) found in mice. Scientists used time-lapse video techniques to observe key differences in the growth, differentiation rate and...
