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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
A molecular biologist from the University of Texas stated that a new treatment for muscular dystrophy might be in the making. Scientists in the United States reported this past weekend that they had used stem cell transplants to improve the muscular function of mice afflicted with muscular dystrophy. While this is the first incident in which transplanted embryonic stem cells have shown to improve conditions in mice, approval in use on humans will be at some date in the future. Says Rita Perlingeiro from the University of Texas; "We envision eventually developing a stem cell therapy for humans. These cells can be transplanted into the muscle, and they cause muscle regeneration."
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
Testing of a special device that is able to pull adult stem cells out of a living rat have provided greater purity than techniques used to date. The device, designed by an associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Rochester will be reported in the coming weeks in an issue of the British Journal of Hematology. Says Michael King, associate professor at the University of Rochester, "We're finding we can play off the hydrodynamics of moving blood to isolate and manipulate specific cell population with great efficiency."
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
Recent discoveries in the ability to reprogram adult cells without the need for human embryos have generated extreme interest in funding, not only within the United States, but in other countries leading the non-embryonic stem cell research arena, such as Germany and Japan. Because the new method does not require human embryo or embryonic tissues, ethical and moral grounds that have stalled research in the past decade are not apparent. "Being able to have human cells with human disease in a dish accessible for testing is a real boon to technology and to science," says Evan Snyder, director of the Stem Cells and Regeneration Program at the Burnham Institute in La Jolla California.
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
A number of scientists and researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have focused research and the thrust of their studies to treating muscular dystrophy. Scientists there have recently developed a process through which they have developed a pure source of muscular cell tissues which may prove useful in treating muscular dystrophy as well as other muscle related diseases.
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
Stem cell therapy research has literally exploded during the last few months. Studies continue to show that stem cell research, therapies, and development of procedures offer hope for treatments of diseases that range from hair loss to blood cell formation to diabetes, leukemia, hard damage, brain-damaged and spinal cord injuries. Millions of people in the United States will be able to benefit from stem cell research in the coming years.
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
Stem cell research, and more specifically non-embryonic stem cell research, has made enormous progress and advancements in the last month. Because of this, new methods to reprogram adult cells may have the potential to replace embryonic stem cells in the field of research and medical development. The ability to reprogram adult cells without the need of human embryonic tissues has encouraged not only extensive media attention, but helps to relieve the burden of moral and ethical disapproval and conflict that has plagued researchers and scientists for many years.
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