Stem cells cure diabetes

Stem cells cure diabetes

“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...
Pioneering heart surgery saves man’s life

Pioneering heart surgery saves man’s life

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...
Eva’s life saving transplant

Eva’s life saving transplant

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...
Stem cells to help burns victims

Stem cells to help burns victims

A Singapore company has used stem cells to help victims of serious burns and other wounds to grow fresh skin. While more work must be done to test the promise of the new treatment, the procedure has so far allowed three patients to do away with painful skin grafts....

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