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View Post: TREATMENT OF HEART DISEASE PATIENTS WITH THEIR OWN STEM CELLS ...
18 Nov 2009 by admin  
The stem cell transplant is the first therapy to produce an improvement in severe angina subjects' ability to walk on a treadmill. Twelve months after the procedure, the transplant subjects were able to double their improvement on a ...
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View Post: Stem Cell Research: Johns Hopkins and Harvard Add To Previous 2009 ...
11 Nov 2009 by Admin  
Adds George Daley, also director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at HHMI/Children's Hospital in Boston, "Our data also point to differences between iPS cells and embryonic stem (ES) cells, which everyone has felt were similar ...
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View Post: What are Stem Cells Used For?
9 Nov 2009 by Geoff Vaughan  
Most of the current studies on new drugs are used on animals, but using stem cells may eliminate the use of animal experimentation. Researchers must carefully control stem cell differentiation in order to accurately test the drugs on very ... These cells help with diseases such as Aplastic anemia, a condition where bone marrow no longer makes enough red and white blood cells and platelets, and in Leukemia, a cancer involving white blood cells. Stem cells can also be ...
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View Post: Stem cell transplant from fetal tissue caused brain cancer ...
18 Feb 2009 by Grace Ibay  
The Study: Donor-Derived Brain Tumor Following Neural Stem Cell Transplantation in an Ataxia Telangiectasia Patient Amariglio N, Hirshberg A, Scheithauer BW, Cohen Y, Loewenthal R, et al. PLoS Medicine Vol. 6, No. ...
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View Post: Blood Cure: Stem Cell Types
13 Nov 2009 by AM  
Stem Cell Types. There are three basic types of stem cells. Embryonic stem cells as the name implies come from embryos and have ethical issues surrounding them. Adult stem cells can be purified from a variety of sources including bone ...
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View Post: Umbilical cord blood derived mesenchymal stem cells ...
23 hours ago by info@sujanani.com  
Filed under Stem cell research and tagged angiogenesis, animal models, autologous, blood, blood stem cell transplant, bones, brain, brain repair, Brazil, cell transplantation, chondrocytes, chronic, cord blood stem cell, cord blood stem ...
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View Post: Cash for Cardiovascular: Who Might be Next? : Beck on Biotech
11 Aug 2009 by Michael Becker  
In the scientific and investment community there is much excitement over cardiac regeneration therapies through stem cells or progenitor cells. Stem cell therapy offers the promise of replacing many of the dead cardiomyocytes with functional cells. ... Celladon Corporation is a privately-held company developing MYDICAR®, an Adeno Associated Virus [AAV] delivered enzyme replacement therapy for patients at end stage HF that are eligible for heart transplantation. ...
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View Post: Stem Cells – what they are « Multiple Sclerosis
18 Sep 2009 by scamperoo  
Scientists are using genetic modification to expand the potential therapeutic applications of stem cells. Stem cells can be modified to produce enzymes or factors, such as insulin, before being transplanted into the body. ... A stem cell transplant is used to increase the chance of a cure or remission for a number of cancers and blood disorders. It usually involves intense chemotherapy followed by an infusion of stem cells. The treatment requires close nursing and medical ...
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View Post: Demystifying Stem Cell Technology « Frontier Lifeline
29 Sep 2009 by frontierlifeline  
Stem cells have been successfully used in tissue regeneration. Heart disease, including myocardial infarction and ischemia, can be treated with the applications of stem cells. The concept of stem cell transplantation to regenerate the ... around stem cells, stem cell technology and the various ways research has been used in curing diseases. This post comes your way to demystify anything related to stem cells and its usage. First lets understand what stem cells are: ...
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