by Cells4Life Middle East | Aug 16, 2015 | Stem Cell News
A story published by news station WBIR tells the story of Beth Harris, a mother of five who made a stem cell donation that saved the life of an elderly woman suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. More than 20 years ago, Beth saw an organisation at her college...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Aug 15, 2015 | Stem Cell News
Researchers have developed a new method for delivering stem cells to damaged heart muscle following a heart attack. The breakthrough could help create a successful stem cell therapy for heart failure. The preliminary study has had its results published in the journal...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Aug 11, 2015 | Stem Cell News
New research published in the journal Stem Cell Reports has described newly discovered genes that are responsible for developing hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), also known as blood stem cells. Even though doctors have been using blood stem cells to perform a number...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Aug 9, 2015 | Cord Blood Banking, Stem Cell News
In an article published on the health website LiveWell, Dr. Alisa Hideg explains the reasons why umbilical cord blood may be worth banking. Dr Hideg explains why stem cells are very powerful components of the human body — they have the ability to create other types of...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Aug 8, 2015 | Stem Cell News
A new study by researchers at the Stanford Cardiovascular Medicine has used stem cells to create patient-specific cardiac cells. The team used Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (IPSC), which are capable of turning into any type of human cells, to generate new heart...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Aug 5, 2015 | Stem Cell News
The world’s first clinical trial of a stem cell therapy for pulmonary hypertension (PAH) has yielded positive results. PAH is a rare disease which results in high blood pressure affecting arteries in the lungs and in the heart. The disease mostly affects young women...
