According to the Dr. Bassem Masri — a cardiologist and diabetes specialist at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell and Helen and Robert Appel Clinical Scholar and assistant professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, drug named Reboxetine could be used to cure the chronic symptoms that is caused due to the Peripheral disease and it is preventing the patients from leading a normal and healthy life.

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Spanish biotechnology company Cellerix is on the way of a big tie up with nearly ten of the major pharma companies of the country. The tie-up could lead to partnerships or even its eventual acquisition. Cellerix, which is using adult stem cells to develop treatments for bowel disorder Crohn’s disease and other autoimmune illnesses, has put any plans for an initial public offering on hold until poor market sentiment improves.

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Recent experiments on Vet Stem has proved that stem cell therapy could speed the healing process among the pets.

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In an attempt to facilitate the stem cell research in Austarlia, the researchers have planned to use the placenta to collect stem cell for study. Researchers think that placenta would be more useful than the traditional umbilical cord blood stem cell. An associated company expects to offer stem cell banking from next year.

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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. The study has found that the fat collected from the lower abdomen and inner thigh contains more stem cell than the other part of the body. The fat from all these parts are rich in stem cell.

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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. Scientists at the Institute of Molecular Neuroscience have studied the relationship between the two. The researchers have found that loss of Pink1 function resulted in increased programmed cell death, more free radicals, decreased long-term survival of neurons, and other hallmarks of Parkinson’s disease.

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Recent study published in the July issue of The Journal Laboratory Investigation reveals that Stem cell like cells could be formed In Vitro from the insulin producing cells.

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Now benefits of stem cells could also be used for facelifting.

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Kostantinos Meletis, a postdoctoral fellow at the Picower Institute, and colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden developed an innovating non-surgical treatment for the debilitating spinal cord injuries with the help of spinal cord stem cells.

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Voshte Gustafson was three month pregnant when she had received email to donate the umbilical cord blood of her new born child to take prevention from various disease. She has been receiving messages to save the cord blood of her child. A lot of companies are approaching them in various ways. Voshte’s husband and father-to-be Kiley Gustafson, reported to have received nearly 25 private cord blood banking pamphlets in the past several months.

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