New Zealand gets its first successful stem cell therapy to treat brain damage. This Auckland twin underwent experimental treatment in the United States, using her own umbilical cord blood.

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The 49 year old stroke patient who received a Biocompatibles International Plc’s experimental stem cell treatment is doing well in life. He finds no post surgery problem so far.

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London researchers are on their way to find a technique what can be called a groundbreaking success in heart disease and research. The research is likely to put an end to the use of heart transplant.

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Chandler Simpson was 7 when she was learned to be a patient of type 1 diabetes. Now she and her family are waiting for the ongoing research in the Wake Forest University’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine. The researchers there are trying to to grow cells in the lab that, once implanted in the body, will render Type 1 diabetes a thing of the past. If it is reached, it could prevent debilitating ailments in, and perhaps save many of the lives of, the roughly 1 million Americans with Type 1 diabetes.

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Cord blood is a potential source of stem cell. A number of patients are coming forward to donate their child’s cord blood to save for future use. The cost is nominal and the return as precious as life itself: Bank your baby’s placenta cord and umbilical cord blood.

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In the first study of its kind, stem cell researchers is on a clinical trial to find out the determine if injecting a patient’s own stem cells will help patients in heart failure.The yearlong, five-center study will look at safety and whether injecting “cardiac repair cells” improves heart function. It’s the first study in the country on treating both ischemic and non-ischemic heart failure, including the 40 percent for which no cause is known.

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In a new article, University of Edinburgh, researchers have discussed the advances in stem cell research and also the problems it is facing like the technical and ethical one. The researchers also discuss the issue of how to patent stem cell discoveries and to make them commercially viable.

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For the first time, stem cell presents a hope for the Pulmonary Hypertension. Dr. Leonel Fernandez Liriano, Professor of Medicine at Pontifical Catholic University School of Medicine (PCUSM), announced nine month follow up results for the first patient treated with engineered stem cells in a clinical study of primary pulmonary hypertension. Moreover, the stem cells were taken from the patient’s own blood.

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After the much talked about stem cell research scenario in USA, UK and other countries, its time to look at other parts of Europe, Germany. Famous in world for various reasons ranging from imperialism to sports, the country is now concentrating on stem cell research.

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After the great fall of George W Bush, critics find it a ray of hope for stem cell research in the USA. President-elect Barack Obama is expected to lift restrictions on federal money for such research.

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