by Cells4Life Middle East | Dec 6, 2019 | Stem Cell News
A new study from Northwestern Medicine and the Mayo Clinic has described how stem cells can be used to treat a rare neurological disease. The condition, called neuromyelitis optica, can cause sufferers to become blind and lose the ability to walk within a few years of...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Nov 22, 2019 | Stem Cell News
The National Marrow Donor Program often shares the stories of people who have survived cancer after receiving a stem cell transplant. They recently shared a short video featuring a cancer survivor named Howie. This is his story. In 2001, Howie was diagnosed with Acute...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Nov 15, 2019 | Stem Cell News
The world was shocked when Formula One racing champion Michael Schumacher suffered a catastrophic accident while skiing in 2013. He fell and hit his head on a rock, which caused a traumatic brain injury. When Michael awoke from a medically induced coma, doctors...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Nov 8, 2019 | Stem Cell News
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a rare inherited disease that causes the degeneration of nerve cells in the brain. This degeneration triggers a variety of symptoms affecting cognition, movements, and speech. Sufferers usually have a shortened life expectancy and...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Nov 3, 2019 | Stem Cell News
Cells4Life is one of the industry’s leading private cord blood banks. We currently store more than 150,000 cord blood samples for parents from the UK and over 50 other countries. Cells4Life cord blood bank was recently recognised by the American Association of Blood...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Oct 24, 2019 | Stem Cell News
A recent study performed by researchers at the University of California San Diego suggests that miniature human brain models grown from stem cells make brain waves like premature babies. The findings may shed some light on the behaviour of the developing brain and may...
