by Cells4Life Middle East | Jun 8, 2018 | Stem Cell News
Gene therapy has been often mentioned in the media in recent years. It is an experimental technique that treats genetic diseases by altering a person’s genes. It either alters a disease causing gene or adds a healthy gene to replace it. The first...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Jun 1, 2018 | Stem Cell News
A team of researchers from the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montréal in Canada have been using cord blood stem cells to improve cancer treatments. They recently published details of the 10-patient cohort study showing how stem cells may help patients with...
by Cells4Life Middle East | May 30, 2018 | Stem Cell News
Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have developed a new mechanism that changes how proteins interact with blood stem cells to direct their function. This breakthrough could reduce the rates of certain blood cancers. Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), also called...
by Cells4Life Middle East | May 23, 2018 | Stem Cell News
Five years ago, Julian Fowles was enjoying a very busy life as an entertainment lawyer living in Florida. He had many hobbies including a passion for salsa dancing that he enjoyed with this wife. That all changed when Julian suffered a stroke. The stroke...
by Cells4Life Middle East | May 16, 2018 | Stem Cell News
A new stem cell treatment has been developed which may help patients with sickle cell anaemia and this treatment has already been successfully tested on a Canadian woman with her condition being cured. Sickle cell anaemia is a genetic mutation that causes some red...
by Cells4Life Middle East | May 9, 2018 | Stem Cell News
In a major breakthrough, scientists have managed to create vascularised “mini-brains” using stem cells. Mini-brains are small organs that resemble a real human brain. It is hoped that the breakthrough may eventually allow researchers to develop treatments...
