Nenad Bursac and a team of Bioengineers at Duke University have made a breakthrough after years of work by creating functioning muscle from scratch. His team have previously grown muscle from muscle-derived cells in 2015 – but with an end goal of being able to treat...
In the USA, the Food & Drug Authority (FDA) has given permission to Duke University Medical Center to offer cord blood therapy to children with neurological conditions including: Autism spectrum disorder Autism Cerebral palsy Hydrocephalus Apraxia of speech...
The American Heart Association has recently published results of a study that saw patients with heart failure receive an intravenous infusion of umbilical cord stem cells. The study comprised of 30 patients aged 18 – 75 who had stable heart failure. Participants were...
A team of scientists in Japan have demonstrated that neurons derived from stem cells can be used to treat the symptoms of Parkinson’s in monkeys. Parkinson’s affects around 1 in 500 people in the UK and is caused when dopamine-producing nerve cells degenerate and can...
In early July 2017 a panel of cancer experts unanimously endorsed CAR-T treatment for leukaemia. With FDA approval expected, it will become the first gene therapy to reach the market creating a ‘living drug’ that genetically alters a patients own cells to fight...
There are many forms of macular disease affecting eyesight, the most common of which is age-related macular degeneration (AMD). In fact, AMD is the leading cause of sight loss in the developed world. And, it is not just the old who are affected, juvenile macular...
