by Cells4Life Middle East | May 10, 2019 | Stem Cell News
Eight-year-old Nerea is a young girl from the Spanish town of Burriana. Nerea had a difficult childhood because she was born prematurely. Her premature birth triggered respiratory issues which deprived her brain of oxygen and led to her developing cerebral palsy....
by Cells4Life Middle East | May 3, 2019 | Stem Cell News
Doctors in the United States are using a ground-breaking umbilical cord blood treatment to help a 5-year old girl with brain damage. The treatment may help her recover cognitive function and could dramatically improve her quality of life. The girl’s name is Samantha...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Apr 26, 2019 | Stem Cell News
Researchers from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) recently made several new discoveries relating to how brain stem cells function. These findings will help them develop new stem cell treatments for brain injuries and neurological diseases. The researchers...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Apr 19, 2019 | Stem Cell News
The Japanese government’s health ministry has just approved a clinical study which uses pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to treat patients with corneal disease. The study will be carried out by researchers from Osaka University. It is only the sixth time that a study...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Apr 12, 2019 | Stem Cell News
A baby in China has become the first child to receive a stem cell transplant to treat an inherited form of irritable bowel disease. It is a significant breakthrough because there is currently no cure for this often-fatal condition. Zhao Jiaxin was born in 2015...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Apr 5, 2019 | Stem Cell News
Researchers from the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia recently published details of a process to obtain more stem cells from umbilical cord tissue. Details of their findings were published in the journal Stem Cell Research & Therapy. The research...
