Sep 30, 2026 | Blog, Other
Key detailsThe question: Families who store their baby’s stem cells want to know how long frozen cells keep working. Well-established methods already exist for freezing and storing blood-forming and mesenchymal stem cells long term [1].The new finding: A study from...
Sep 29, 2026 | Blog, Other
Key detailsThe condition: Osteoarthritis affects around nine million people in the UK, and the knee is one of the joints most commonly affected – around one in five adults over 45 in England has knee osteoarthritis [1]. There is no cure, and current treatment manages...
Sep 29, 2026 | Blog, Other
Key detailsThe condition: Pre-eclampsia affects around one in 20 pregnancies worldwide and, together with foetal growth restriction, is a major cause of stillbirth and of illness in mothers and newborns [1, 2].The discovery: Cambridge scientists found that low levels...
Sep 29, 2026 | Blog, Other
Key details The condition: Around 1 in 400 babies born in the UK has cerebral palsy, a lifelong condition that affects movement and coordination [1, 2]. The story: Gabriel Machado, a teenager from Lexington, Massachusetts, has been accepted onto a Duke University...
Sep 23, 2026 | Blog, Other
Key details The condition: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a progressive scarring disease of the lungs that mainly affects older adults. Thousands of people are newly diagnosed in the UK each year, and studies of health records show the condition is becoming more...
Sep 22, 2026 | Blog, Other
Key detailsThe condition: Motor neurone disease affects more than 5,000 adults in the UK at any one time, and around one person in every 300 will develop it in their lifetime. There is currently no cure [1].The news: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has...
How Long Can Stem Cells Stay Frozen? New Study Finds Cells Still Working After 13 Years
First US Patient Treated in Phase 3 Trial of Cord Blood Stem Cell Therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis
Could a Blood Test at 12 Weeks Predict Pre-eclampsia?
Could Sibling Cord Blood Help a Child With Cerebral Palsy?
Cord Tissue Stem Cell Therapy for Pulmonary Fibrosis Completes First Human Safety Trial
