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Advanced therapy offers cure for relapsed cancer patient

...apy can be cured with high-dose chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant, according to an Indiana Universit...entially curable with a high dose chemotherapy and stem cell transplant using cells harvested from the patient before the initial chemotherapy infusion. T...

Adult Stem Cells Show Promise for Peripheral Vascular Disease

...feasibility of transplantation of peripheral blood stem cells for patients with peripheral vascular diseas...e often covered by China Stem Cell News, a leading stem cell news site. However, Beike also has broad experience in research and treating vascular diseases ...

Maxygen Initiates Phase IIa Clinical Trial of MAXY-G34 in Breast Cancer Patients

...operties of MAXY-G34 and the mobilization of CD34+ stem cells. Phase I Results A Phase I trial was pr...of neutrophils and an efficient mobilizer of CD34+ stem cells. The drug exhibited a median half-life approximately 2.3 times that of Neulasta. No serious ad...

Stem Cells from Human Fat Tissue to Hunt for and Kill Cancerous Tumours

... by using 'suicide genes' derived from mesenchymal stem cells taken from human fat tissue, which hunt for ...olon cancer, researchers extracted the mesenchymal stem cells from human fat tissue, and after expanding their number in the lab, used a retrovirus vector t...

Stem Cell Treatment may Prolong Lives of Children With Brittle Bone Disease

...erial College London have found that injections of stem cells during the gestation period may help prolong...imperfecta. They injected human foetal mesenchymal stem cells through the wall of the uterus into 14-day mouse foetuses. It was found that at the age of 3...

Insight Into Neural Stem Cells Has Implications For Designing Therapies

Scientists have discovered that adult neural stem cells, which exist in the brain throughout life, a... in an upcoming issue of "Science." Adult neural stem cells give rise to the three major types of brain cells - astrocytes, oligodendrocytes and neurons. ...

New Blood Vessels can Be Created from Bone Marrow Stem Cells: Study

...sels by engineering tissues from bone marrow adult stem cells . Researchers at the University at Buffalo...at the bone marrow is an excellent source of adult stem cells, containing smooth muscle and endothelial cells, and add that these stem cells can be used in ...

Bangladeshi Wins America's Junior Miss Contest

... bio-medical company with my elder sister who does stem cell research. So I'm open to all possibilities," Nora told the media. Nora, an accomplished pianist, is the second winner from Minnesota in the 50-year history of the Junior Miss contest. Nora's parents, Zaki Ali and Mahfuza Ali, emigrated from ...

Stem Cells In Belly Fat To Enhance Or Reconstruct Breasts

...s from California-based company Cytori, claim that stem cells found in the ubiquitous tummy fat , can in fact be used to reconstruct breasts. If this is so, it would be killing two birds with one stone, a flatter belly and a bigger bust size. Christened Celution, the procedure involves injecting a 'super...

Parkinson's Targets Two Distinct Brain Networks, Finds Study

...ntified were the basal ganglia, thalamus and brain stem that regulate movement. The scans they used measured glucose metabolism - the brain's fuel - and identified areas in this motor network that showed decreased metabolic activity and some areas that had increased metabolic activity. Over time, the cogn...

Stem Cells Research in Parkinsons Disease

...orts that the cutting-edge research study of human stem cells in primates with Parkinsons disease is compe...IH-funded study showed that only a small number of stem cells turned into dopamine-producing cells not enough to improve the primates function by replacing...

New Understanding on Growth of Human Stem Cells

It had been thought previously that stem cells are directly influenced by cells in the loca...the situation may be more complex. Human embryonic stem cells are perpetual machines that generate fuel for life. In this weeks Nature, researchers of the...

India to Monitor Pregnancies to Check Girl Foeticide: Report

...mandatory registry of pregnancies and abortions to stem selective abortions of girl fetuses, a minister said, according to a report. India has only 927 females for every 1,000 males -- far lower than the worldwide average of 1,050 females -- mainly due to selective abortion in the country where many pe...

Determining the Sex of the Baby in Wild West Way

...leic acids between the fetus and its mother. Fetal stem cells and white blood cells can remain in the mother's blood for decades, which means the fetal cells found in a pregnant woman's blood could be from a prior pregnancy, Bianchi says. Bianchi and Kathy Hudson, director of the Genetics and Public Pol...

First Drug for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

...rs such as post-traumatic stress and panic attacks stem from the inability of the brain to stop experiencing the fear associated with a specific incident or series of incidents. For some people, upsetting memories of traumatic events do not go away on their own, or may even get worse over time, severely a...

New Coffee Brand to Hit the Market by This Year-end

...ively less resistant to the widely prevalent white stem borer. CCRI officials said trials of the new variety were being conducted with some 500 growers across the coffee growing regions. The new variety yields about 30 per cent more coffee per hectare at 2,000 kg as compared to the other varieties in pl...

Obesity, a Risk Factor for Developing Multiple Myeloma

...y poor, and treatment may involve chemotherapy and stem cell transplant. The joint study was conducted by a team of researchers led by Brenda M. Birmann at Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Public Health. As part of the study, researchers analysed data of over ...

Novel Method of Adult Stem Cell Growth may Help to Treat Cornea Disorders

...fficacy of a self-designed, novel method of adult stem cell growth for its capacity to grow cornea stem cells in animal studies. Ana Fernandez Hortelano, ophthalmologist at the hospital, applied the gr...

Chennai Hospital Conducts Bone Marrow Transplantation Successfully

... is the first time that an unrelated transplant of stem cells and bone marrow for patients with advanced l... "On that count it was risky to go ahead with a stem cell transplant from an unrelated donor on the basis of a low-resolution HLA typing report. It was a...

Scientists Develop Artificial Blood Vessels for Vascular Grafts in Mice

...isorders . The vessels, made from muscle-derived stem cells (MDSCs) and a biodegradable polymer, exhibit...h is that the graft could utilize the patients own stem cells and be ready for implantation almost immediately or, at most, after a relatively short culture...

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