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...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Sep 6, 2015 | Stem Cell News
Researchers have discovered why the differentiation of pluripotent stem cells created in laboratories can sometimes lead to cells with damaged DNA. The good news is that a simple modification to the stem cell culture used may fix the problem, leading to safer stem...
