by Cells4Life Middle East | Jul 20, 2015 | Stem Cell News
In 2009, an 8-year-old boy named Kenneth Kelley became one of the first people in the United States to receive stem cell therapy for autism. Kenneth had to travel to Panama for the treatment, which doctors hoped would reduce his autism symptoms. Some doctors...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Jul 19, 2015 | Stem Cell News
A four-year-old girl from Australia has become the world’s first person to receive umbilical cord blood to prevent type 1 diabetes. Researchers from the University of Sydney used stem cells that were harvested from the girl’s own umbilical cord. The procedure...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Jul 18, 2015 | Stem Cell News
A new study has found that sorting stem cells before a stem cell transplant can reduce graft vs host disease risk. For patients who undergo a stem cell transplant as a part of their leukaemia treatment, graft vs host disease (GVHD) can often be a major problem. ...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Jul 17, 2015 | Stem Cell News
Researchers from the Uppsala University in Sweden have made a promising breakthrough in the use of stem cells to treat spinal injuries. The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, describes how a stem cell transplant for sensory function recovery was...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Jul 15, 2015 | Stem Cell News
Researchers in the United States may have used a stem cell injection for diabetic neuropathy in animal tests. Diabetic neuropathy occurs when persistently high blood sugar levels cause nerve damage. The symptoms from the nerve damage can include pain, muscle...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Jul 13, 2015 | Stem Cell News
A new stem cell therapy is recording a 95% success rate in treating damaged joints and ligaments in dogs. Veterinarians in Dartmouth Massachusetts have been using the technology to treat their client’s animals and have seen very positive results. The Chase Farm...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Jul 11, 2015 | Stem Cell News
New research indicates that autologous stem cell therapy has positive results when used to treat traumatic brain injuries in children. Researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston discovered that stem cell therapy reduced the number...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Jul 9, 2015 | Stem Cell News
Researchers in the United States have made an important discovery for understanding how stem cells that make new neurons in the brain. Scientists from Duke University discovered that a particular neuron has the ability to tell stem cells to make more neurons....
by Cells4Life Middle East | Jul 7, 2015 | Stem Cell News
Dr Bernhard Jenk from the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Regenerative Medicine has written an article discussing the importance of stem cell technology and cord blood banking. Dr Jenk talks about the regenerative power of stem cells found in umbilical...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Jul 5, 2015 | Stem Cell News
ECNS Wire reports that the umbilical cord blood frozen for 11 years has been used to save the life of a woman in China. The umbilical cord blood was donated to a public stem cell bank in May 2004, in the Sichuan province in China. Since then it had been stored at a...
