Calling all sports fans – Could you give a cheek swab to save baby Francis’ life? Meet baby Francis from Walton in Liverpool. At just three months old, this beautiful boy has been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer, Acute Myeloid...
Duke University in North Carolina has been at the centre of some of the most exciting trials relating to the treatment of neurological conditions. Such has been the success of their safety and efficacy clinical trials, they are now able to offer cord blood therapy to...
“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...
When Chloe Levine was 9-months-old, her parents noticed she couldn’t hold her bottle with her right hand. That wasn’t her only developmental setback. Chloe, of Pinetop, Arizona, was unable to raise both hands above her head, and she could not crawl. At 12 months, a...
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...
