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Could Stem Cells Help Treat Ischaemic Stroke Consequences?
Key details Current treatment limitations: While ischaemic strokes – which account for nearly 90% of all strokes – are currently treated with clot removal and supportive rehabilitation, there remains a significant unmet need for therapies that directly address...
Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Therapy for Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease to Begin Phase 2 Trial
Key details New trial approval: The South Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has approved a Phase 2a trial for a new umbilical cord stem cell therapy to treat Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), one of the most commonly inherited nerve diseases.[1] Promising phase...
Umbilical Cord Blood Transplant for Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome
Key details Understanding Lesch-Nyhan syndrome: This rare, recessive condition linked to the X chromosome primarily affects boys, and is characterized by a deficiency of the HPRT enzyme, leading to severe motor dysfunction, uric acid overproduction, and compulsive...
World Cord Blood Day 2025
Today is World Cord Blood Day! A lot of progress has been made since the very first cord blood transplant was performed in 1988, 37 years ago. Since then, over 60,000 cord blood transplants have been performed worldwide, and cord blood stem cells have become the...
Stem Cell Treatment Could Help Newborns With Brain Damage
A recent study conducted at UMC Utrecht, Netherlands, has shown that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are a safe treatment for brain damage caused by stroke in newborns, and could have a significant positive effect. Perinatal stroke and its consequences Perinatal stroke...
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