In an exciting new development within the stem cell field, a man from London has become the second patient in the world to be cured of HIV following a stem cell treatment. Alongside being diagnosed with HIV in 2003, Adam Castillejo was also later diagnosed with...
Last week, Cells4Life’s sister company, Stabilitech, featured on ITV’s Tonight programme “The Race for a Cure: Making Britain Safer”. This episode looks at making a COVID-19 vaccine. You can watch the full interview by watching the video...
Rock star and TV personality, Ozzy Osbourne, has been reported to have travelled to Panama a few weeks ago to undergo experimental treatment using stem cells to tackle Parkinson’s disease. Ozzy was diagnosed in 2003 with Parkin 2 – a very rare genetic form of...
A US hospital has become the first hospital in the nation to use a placenta-based cell-therapy to treat COVID-19 patients, which has resulted in the coronavirus-recovered patients heading home. Holy name is the first in the US to use the latest placenta-based...
This week is Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week which aims to raise awareness of the symptoms and treatments, as well as tackle the misconceptions of MS across the world. In this multiple sclerosis research blog, we will provide an overview of what multiple sclerosis...
A small cohort of six critically ill COVID-19 patients hospitalised in Israel have been treated with an experimental placenta-based cell-therapy and have all survived, according to initial data. Pluristem, a company based in Haifa who specialise in the development of...
