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Scleroderma Awareness Week 2015
It’s Scleroderma Awareness Week. We’re taking part by raising awareness across our social media channels. Scleroderma is an autoimmune condition which causes hardening of the skin and/or internal organs. This hardening is caused by the excess production of collagen....
Muscular Dystrophy
This week we are learning about muscular dystrophy and how cord blood stem cells could help sufferers. Muscular Dystrophy, also known as MD, is a hereditary condition which causes muscle weakness. It is a progressive condition which means those with muscular...
Diamond Blackfan Anaemia
Here we take a look at Diamond-Blackfan Anaemia, a rare haematological disorder, also known as DBA. What is Diamond Blackfan Anaemia? DBA is the result of the body’s bone marrow not making enough red blood cells; red blood cells are the cells in blood which are...
World Lupus Day 2015
Sunday is World Lupus Day. We're raising awareness of Lupus and look at how stem cells are being researched to find a treatment. Lupus is an autoimmune disease. An autoimmune disease results when the immune system attacks the body’s own cells, in the case of Lupus...
Tissue Engineering 2015
This week we’re taking a look at the world of tissue engineering and what this could mean for the future of medicine. Tissue engineering is an exciting area of medicine, it is the study of the growth of new connective tissues, or organs, from cells and a collagenous...