by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 18, 2015 | Stem Cell News
Gail Fatato was one of millions of people plagued by osteoarthritis, a debilitating disease that causes joint inflammation and paint. Gail was diagnosed in her 20s after she experienced pain while working as an aesthetician. X-rays of her knees showed that she had...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 17, 2015 | Stem Cell News
A recent breakthrough by scientists may have cured a disease that causes blindness in millions of people using stem cells. University of Oslo researchers have been using stem cells obtained from patient’s oral cavities to treat a blindness-causing illness. Limbal stem...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 16, 2015 | Stem Cell News
A new paper published in the journal Stem Cell Reports suggests that there are intrinsic differences among neural stem cells (NSCs) found in mice. Scientists used time-lapse video techniques to observe key differences in the growth, differentiation rate and...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 14, 2015 | Stem Cell News
Researchers have discovered that cord blood infusions are effective at treating babies with congenital hydrocephalus and can used on multiple occasions. The research paper looked at the 76 cases of patients who were given cord blood infusions and found the procedure...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 13, 2015 | Stem Cell News
When 4-year old Charlotte “Charlie” Godish was asked to donate stem cells to her twin brother Bradley, she didn’t hesitate. Her response was simple, “Okay, I’ll do it. I want to help Bradley. Let me know when you need me.” A stem cell...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 12, 2015 | Stem Cell News
A Scottish doctor has made a discovery that may lead to a cure for all chronic diseases. He has developed a treatment using stem cells that aims to preserve a patient’s healthy immune system, so it can be used when chronic disease strikes. Dr Dipnarine Maharaj has a...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 11, 2015 | Stem Cell News
A Chinese man recently donated peripheral blood stem cells to be used by a young leukaemia patient in the United States. 38-year-old Han Jin, from Suzhou, Anhui province was the stem cell donor who helped the young American. The procedure to extract the stem cells...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 10, 2015 | Stem Cell News
Researchers have developed a new procedure using stem cells to treat acute kidney injury. The treatment uses induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to repair the kidney and restore some function after it has been injured. Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is a syndrome that...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 8, 2015 | Stem Cell News
When the White House opened a new Tumblr account recently, they featured a number of letters written to President Obama. Amongst those letters was one authored by 15-year-old Gavin Nore. Gavin had met with Barrack Obama in 2007, before Obama had won his first term as...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 7, 2015 | Stem Cell News
Hugh Fagan recently had a happy reunion with the doctor who performed a life-saving procedure on him more than 6 years ago. Mr Fagan’s life was saved by Dr Colleen Delaney when she performed a cord blood transplant to help him beat an aggressive form of leukaemia. Mr...
