At present, the stem cell research is moving from labs to clinics in India as sufficient pre-clinical data are being generated to take up clinical application, says Dr C M Habibullah, director, Centre for Liver Diseases and dean, Deccan College of Medicine at Hyderabad, while speaking at the Third All India Conference on Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering.
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Sheila Gannon was pregnant when she was diagnosed with leukemia, is alive and gave birth to her son Sawyer 2 weeks early, so she could also start chemotherapy, thanks to a unique transplant of umbilical cord blood from two different donors. It was the first time such a procedure had been performed in Colorado.
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California’s stem-cell research institute, still hamstrung by lawsuits that have held up its $3 billion funding for more than a year, announced Monday it has finally begun issuing the first trickle of grants.
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Stanford University’s medical school received $1.2 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine for the training of stem cell researchers.
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The leader of the stem-cell unit at the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, announced today he will leave the NIH to join the private sector at a biotech company called Invitrogen in Carlsbad, California.
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Paramus-based Community Blood Services (a non-profit organization) will expand its umbilical cord blood laboratory and move it to an industrial park in Allendale.
The cord blood storage, processing and collection facility has simply outgrown the building, said James Matrisciano, the group’s vice president of operations.
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According to a new research a single dose of adult donor stem cells given to animals that have neurological damage similar to that experienced by adults with a stroke or newborns with cerebral palsy can significantly enhance recovery from these types of injuries. So there is now a hope for patients with a neurological damage like stroke.
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Scientists at the University of Minnesota recently observed that, the transplanted stem cells found in human umbilical cord blood, took on properties of brain cells and seemed to spur the rats’ brains to “rewire” themselves and eventually reverse the effects of stroke in lab rats.
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A paralyzed Virginia woman traveled half way around the world for a stem-cell transplantation in hopes of walking again.
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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.
The stem cells will be kept in store till the parents or the child (upon reaching the age of 21) decide what it can be used for.
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