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LONDON – Imperial College London scientists claim that they have moved a step closer to making replacement bones for patients with damaged or fractured bones using stem cell technology.
The researchers say that they compared “bone-like” materials grown from three different commonly used clinically relevant cell types, and found significant differences between the quality of bone-like [...]

Non-embryonic stem cells pass major hurdle in mice
WASHINGTON — Two teams of Chinese scientists have made a major advance in mice in the development of a new kind of stem cell that doesn’t involve destroying embryos.
Those cells are derived from ordinary skin cells, and when they were created two years ago from human skin and [...]

WASHINGTON – Neural stem cells can rescue memory in mice with advanced Alzheimer’s disease, opening the way to treating dementia that afflicts 5.3 million people in the US.
Mice genetically engineered to have Alzheimer’s performed markedly better on memory tests a month after mouse neural stem cells were injected into their brains. The stem cells secreted [...]

WASHINGTON – Identifying a master regulator gene for early embryonic development of the pancreas and other organs, scientists at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center have moved a step closer to coaxing stem cells into pancreatic cells as a possible cure for type1 diabetes.
Writing about their findings in the journal Developmental Cell, the researchers have revealed [...]

WASHINGTON – For the very first time, US scientists have shown that neural stem cells can rescue memory in mice with advanced Alzheimer’s disease.
The findings raise hopes of a potential treatment for the leading cause of elderly dementia.
Mice genetically engineered to have Alzheimer’s performed markedly better on memory tests a month after mouse neural stem [...]

Researchers have managed to reverse some of the damage caused by a heart attack using stem cells that were induced from connective tissue cells, according to a study published Monday.
The proof-of-concept study on mice is the first attempt to use induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to treat heart disease.
The goal is to one day be [...]

Some 8,000 mothers who give birth at Brigham and Women’s Hospital each year can now donate blood from their umbilical cords to a public bank where it may be a match for someone facing a life-threatening disease.
Public banks, which store cord blood for the stem cells that can combat leukemia, lymphoma, and other deadly illnesses, [...]

Michael George feels so good he can pinch himself after curing the dangerous scleroderma disease with adult stem cells.
And today, after undergoing an autologous adult stem-cell transplant 14 months ago to stop his advanced case of scleroderma, an incurable autoimmune disease that causes excess collagen to make skin tighten and feel hard and thick, George [...]

Obama made it clear to Pope Benedict XVI that US will no longer bear the same step motherly attitude to stem cell therapy, and he drew the lines for his design.
Meeting for the first time, President Obama and Pope Benedict XVI sought common ground Friday on peace in the Middle East but struggled to bridge [...]

NEW DELHI – Diabetes is a chronic disease characterized by a deficit in cell mass and a failure of glucose homeostasis. Both circumstances result in a variety of severe complications and an overall shortened life expectancy.
The current treatment of insulin does [...]