On 27th August,2008 Dr. George Daley and Kevin Eggan, scientists of the Harvard University made a breakthrough announcement regarding the creation of stem cells from patients with a variety of diseases. They say that this disease-specific stem cells will reshape medicine, as stem cells will make the cells to grow in the petri dish of the lab which will increase the chance of study of all degenerative diseases.

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Dr George Daley and his colleagues at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute used a new technique,  which will allow researchers to watch 10 genetic disorders develop in a lab dish and thus could help speed up efforts to find treatments for some of the most confounding ailments.

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Yet once again Indian stem cell scientist Dr Geeta Shroff has managed to come in the headlines by treating three patients from Aspen having spinal cord injury.

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A new training center named Buck Institute at Novato is going to start its first session soon. This Institute is the first training center where growing and using embryonic stem-cell colonies will be done together.

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In a breakthrough discovery, Dr. Kevin Eggan, Chief Scientific Officer of The New York Stem Cell Foundation and Principal Faculty Member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, has produced human stem cell lines from the cells of patients afflicted with a version of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

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Stem cell University of Manchester (UK) has received fund worth €467000, which will help them to research on different types of sugar in our body and how these sugar types influence cell behavior.

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In an attempt to facilitate the stem cell research and treatment, the scientists of the International Society for Stem Cell Research at a meeting last week have decided to compose a set of guidelines.

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In a first study of its kind, a Brazilian group of researchers have identified the differences among different types of stem cell from different body part.

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A group of British researchers have found out the link between the Parkinson’s and Pink1 gene. Certain forms of familial Parkinson’s disease have been previously linked to mutations in the Pink1 gene, but no mechanistic link between the gene and the disease had been established until now.

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Seventeen-year-old Tim Harrington dreamed of playing basketball from his childhood. He is on the basketball court at his Earlville home, set up on a dirt stretch next to the family’s barn, playing one-on-one against fellow incoming Indian Creek High School senior Trevor Foster. Tim goes up for a rebound and misses, watching the ball bounce off the end of his thumb. Reality jars him instantaneously and the smile leaves his face. He had realized that because of his poor vision, one of several side effects due to having a dead area in his brain from being oxygen-deprivation at birth, make it too dangerous for Tim to play.

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