Category Archive for "News for Doctors"

Japanese Man is First to Receive Reprogrammed Stem Cells from Another Person (Nature)

Posted in: News for Doctors, News for Industry, News for Patients, News for Researchers | April 6, 2017

(Hyogo, Japan) Creating induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cells from unrelated donors and using them to regenerate tissue/cure diseases has huge possibilities for the future of healthcare....

Stem Cell Infusions Improved Health In Frail Elderly, UM Researchers Say (The Miami Herald)

Posted in: News for Doctors, News for Industry, News for Patients, News for Researchers | October 20, 2017

(Miami, FL) In a recently published study, frail elderly patients benefited from the intravenous infusion of stem cells from young healthy donors....

Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Show Promise as Heart Failure Treatment (American Heart Association)

Posted in: News for Doctors, News for Industry, News for Patients, News for Researchers | September 26, 2017

(Dallas, TX) Based on a recent first of its kind study, The American Heart Association reported significant improvement in patients with heart disease who were treated with umbilical cord...

F.D.A. Cracks Down on ‘Unscrupulous’ Stem Cell Clinics (New York Times)

Posted in: News for Doctors, News for Industry, News for Patients, News for Researchers | August 28, 2017

(Washington) The US FDA recently announced a crackdown on dangerous stem cell clinics while facilitating a pathway for doctors and companies who have legitimate treatments in the growing field...

Lactate Dehydrogenase Activity Drives Hair Follicle Stem Cell Activation (Nature)

Posted in: News for Doctors, News for Industry, News for Researchers | August 14, 2017

(Los Angeles, California) UCLA researchers have developed a new technique which activates stem cells to grow hair follicles....

Cardiac Stem Cells From Young Hearts Could Rejuvenate Old Hearts (Science Daily)

Posted in: News for Doctors, News for Industry, News for Patients, News for Researchers | August 14, 2017

(Los Angeles, California) As recently published in the European Heart Journal, intravenous stem cells programmed for heart muscle regeneration secrete small vesicles containing RNA and proteins which regenerate damaged...

3D Bone-Like Tissues Grown From Stem Cells (Asian Scientist)

Posted in: News for Doctors, News for Industry, News for Patients, News for Researchers | June 28, 2017

(Tokyo, Japan) At the University of Tokyo, researchers have developed a stem cell culture method that generates a three-dimensional bone like tissue which is classified as an “organoid”....

What Makes Stem Cells into Perfect Allrounders (Phys Org)

Posted in: News for Doctors, News for Industry, News for Patients, News for Researchers | June 27, 2017

(Zurich, Switzerland) University of Zürich researchers have discovered a protein that enables natural embryonic stem cells to form any and all tissue types....