by Cells4Life Middle East | Dec 4, 2016 | Child Parenting Guide
It is easy to fantasize about how your life will be before having a child, but as every parent knows, that changes quickly once the baby arrives. Simple tasks such as cooking dinner or taking a shower, become difficult to manage, let alone trying to maintain a...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Dec 3, 2016 | Stem Cell News
More than 36 million people worldwide currently have HIV/AIDs, including 1.8 million children. 35 million people have already died from HIV/AIDs since the epidemic began. Scientists have been frantically trying to develop a cure for HIV/AIDs since the 1980s....
by Cells4Life Middle East | Dec 1, 2016 | Stem Cell News
Researchers in Japan have made an exciting discovery using stem cells that could lead to a cure for certain forms of deafness. The findings could restore hearing to children who are born deaf because of a congenital defect. Scientists have been using stem cells to...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Nov 29, 2016 | Stem Cell News
One of the greatest mysteries that paediatric cardiologists have been trying to solve is what causes certain structural defects in the heart muscles of babies. One common congenital issue that they have been studying is left ventricular non-compaction...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Nov 27, 2016 | Stem Cell News
Researchers believe that stem cells may be important for treating many eye diseases that are currently considered incurable. The biggest hurdle that they face when developing new stem cell therapies is safely transplanting cells into a patient’s eye without stem...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Nov 25, 2016 | Labor & Birth, Pregnancy
These days an ultrasound is one of the first and most basic investigations done in pregnancy. Undergoing an ultrasound during pregnancy is a simple and painless process — a gel is spread on your abdomen to work as a conductor for the sound waves produced via a...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Nov 24, 2016 | Stem Cell News
Researchers from Liverpool University’s institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease have been awarded a grant to continue their research into a stem cell therapy for glaucoma. The ground breaking research could help restore vision to millions of people around the...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Nov 23, 2016 | Stem Cell Facts
Doctors have been using stem cells in transplants for more than 60 years. The first successful stem cell transplant happened in 1956 between siblings who were identical twins, using hematopoietic stem cells from the bone marrow (Hematopoietic Stem Cell...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Nov 22, 2016 | Stem Cell News
Stem cells can be used to treat many forms of cancer including leukaemia and myeloma. One type of stem cell that is particularly useful for cancer treatment is the Hematopoietic Stem Cells (HSC). HSCs are used to help the body grow healthy red blood cells...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Nov 20, 2016 | Stem Cell News
In a world first, researchers at University of California, Los Angeles, have grown three-dimensional human lung “organoids”. Organoids are three-dimensional organ-buds that show realistic micro-anatomy — in other words, a mini lung. The researchers hope that...
