Two weeks back, Zach, a Georgia Elementary School student received an umbilical cord blood transplant, in which the stem cell-rich blood of a baby’s umbilical cord was transfused into his body. Stem cells give a patient’s body the ability to make new bone marrow and blood.
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LifeCell, India’s cord blood bank, announced the launch of its marketing and collection centre in Surat, for umbilical cord stem cell banking. LifeCell has a Stem Cell Processing and Banking facility near Chennai, conforming to the standards of American Association of Blood Banks and USFDA.
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Do you consider a few collection of microscopic cells grown from a patients own skin cell a ‘Clone’?
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German researchers have discovered that cells from the testes of adult mice that normally turn into sperm can be transformed into different types of tissue, including liver, heart, muscle, skin, pancreas and nerve cells.
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Expectant parents now have the option of using umbilical cord banks to store the stem cells of their babies for a period of 21 years.
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ViaCell, Inc. (a biotechnology company) announced today preclinical findings evaluating Unrestricted Somatic Stem Cells (USSCs), pluripotent stem cells cultivated from human cord blood, in a small animal model of myocardial infarction.
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Clinicians at Duke University Medical School have used Aldesort(Aldagen’s Product) to isolate stem cells from cord blood and safely infused these cells into patients.
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UCSF scientists have discovered that the activity of several embryonic stem cell genes is elevated in testicular and breast cancers, providing some of the first molecular evidence of a link between embryonic stem cells and cancer.
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Japanese researchers has succeeded in engineering stem cell taken from tooth germ to quickly develop into liver or bone tissues, local reports said.
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Israeli scientists are the most prolific authors on a per capita basis of articles published in scientific journals related to stem cell research, with the US lagging in sixth place, and the UK falling in seventh place, according to a recently published study by the Central Library of the Research Center Jülich in Germany.
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