Cord blood clinical trials for cerebral palsy have received a lot of press over recent years, especially as patient stories have reported such dramatic improvements. These clinical trials have typically focused on autologous cord blood infusions – infusing a child’s...
To celebrate International Women’s Day, we’re taking a brief look at the career of one of the most pioneering women in modern medicine; Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg. Joanne Kurtzberg & the first cord blood transplants. Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg is a researcher at Duke...
“Stem cell transplants have freed patients with type 1 diabetes of daily insulin injections'” The Daily Telegraph has said. The news comes after research that allowed volunteers to go, on average, for two and a half years without using the multiple daily...
Surgeons have, for the first time, used a combination of an artificial heart and stem cells to save the life of a dying man. Ioannis Manolopoulos was fitted with the mechanical pump because his heart was too weak to push blood around his body. Surgeons then injected...
Three year-old Eva Winston-Hart from Leicestershire is getting better by the day after undergoing stem cell surgery a few months ago in America to treat her leukaemia. Now her family is campaigning for change in the UK. Last November three year-old Eva Winston-Hart...
