You are a collection of over 30 trillion human cells. Every one of these cells, those in your brain, lungs, liver, skin, and everywhere else, derives from a single pluripotent type of cell called a stem cell. This post is about how stem cells are going to change medicine forever, extend life, [...]
On September 3 of 2015, Lyla Rose Edgington made her debut onto life’s court amidst cheers and love and great anticipation of what would be! Lyla’s mom, Helen, is a gorgeous, sweet, blonde accountant who fell in love with Steve, the British tennis pro that captured her heart in Australia, [...]
Aggressive chemotherapy followed by a stem cell transplant can halt the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS), a small study has suggested. The research, published in The Lancet, looked at 24 patients aged between 18 and 50 from three hospitals in Canada. For 23 patients the treatment greatly [...]
Stroke survivors who believed they would be paralysed or need a wheelchair for the rest of their lives are walking and moving again following a ground-breaking stem cell treatment. 18 patients who agreed to allow doctors to drill a hole in their skull and inject stem cells into the damaged part [...]
DIABETES sufferers have been handed hope of a new treatment after scientists reprogrammed stem cells from “love handles” so they produce badly needed insulin. Researchers in Basel, Switzerland, made the break-through after extracting stem cells from a 50-year-old’s fatty [...]
A 24-year-old leukaemia victim, whose celebrity-backed search for a bone marrow donor sparked one of the biggest ever global campaigns of its kind, has found a match. Lara is a 24-year-old Chinese-Thai-Italian student passionate about human rights and refugee issues. She was diagnosed with an [...]
You can check out the Public Health Guidelines on Zika Virus here: Public Health Guidelines Advice for mothers wishing to store cord blood at risk of Zika Virus: Obligatory must not donate if: a) A mother has been diagnosed with chikungunya, dengue or Zika Virus infection whilst in an endemic [...]
By Fergus Walsh, Medical Correspondent, BBC News UK doctors in Sheffield say patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are showing “remarkable” improvements after receiving a treatment usually used for cancer. About 20 patients have used their own stem cells from bone marrow [...]
