Feb 17, 2025 | Blog, Blood Disorders, News, Stem Cell News, Stem Cell Therapies, Uses for Cord Blood
A CAR-T cell therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia[1] has recently been approved by the FDA for use in clinical trials in the United States. The therapy is based on cells derived from allogeneic (donor) umbilical cord blood; it is the very first such treatment to...
Feb 11, 2025 | Blog, Heart and Vascular Disease, Neurological Disorders, News, Stem Cell News, Stem Cell Therapies
A recent study has found that a stem cell therapy could reduce epileptic symptoms after stroke and help the brain recover. The study was performed at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease in California, USA, using a rat model of stroke. Stroke basics A...
Feb 4, 2025 | Blog, Heart and Vascular Disease, News, Stem Cell News, Stem Cell Therapies
Scientists have shown that muscle patches grown from stem cells can be used to strengthen and help repair a failing heart. In a breakthrough clinical trial, ten patches containing 400 million cells were implanted on the heart of a 46-year-old woman who was suffering...
Jan 15, 2025 | Blog, Blood Disorders, News, Stem Cell News, Stem Cell Therapies, Uses for Cord Blood
After two planned transplants from unrelated donors fell through at the very last minute, Australian three-year-old Tommy Bacon is now in remission from a rare, dangerous form of leukaemia following a transplant of the stem cells from his baby sister’s cord blood.[1]...
Jan 10, 2025 | Blog, Diabetes, News, Stem Cell News, Stem Cell Therapies
A 25-year-old woman from China is the first in the world to have been cured from type 1 diabetes, following an injection of islet cells derived from her own reprogrammed stem cells. The study, published in the Cell journal, offers real hope to the millions of people...
Jan 6, 2025 | Blog, News, Uses for Placenta
After a nick caused by a small shard of glass went unnoticed, Canadian Ron Williams developed a deep, infected wound spanning from the heel to the middle of his foot. Even after six months of hospital treatment, the wound wouldn’t heal; if the infection had persisted,...