Source: The Telegraph
Date: May 29, 2005
Summary:
British doctors have made a "significant" breakthrough using patients' own stem cells to regrow their livers, raising the possibility of it replacing organ transplants in future. Specialists have perfected a technique that could cure people with liver disease. Importantly it used the patients' own stem cells, rather than the controversial practice of cells harvested from aborted embryos. Stem cells were extracted from the blood of the first five human volunteers, and injected into their livers. Early results show that inside the patients' livers, the cells have already started to grow.
Sunday, May 29, 2005
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Researchers Look at Stem Cells to Repair Damage Caused by Multiple Sclerosis: Canada-U.S. collaboration aims to reduce disability
Source: Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada
Date: May 26, 2005
Summary:
CALGARY, May 26 /CNW/ - Three North American research centres are examining the body's own stem cells in hopes that they may hold the key to repairing damage caused by multiple sclerosis. If successful, people with MS may be able to regain losses of physical ability caused by the often-debilitating disease. With the new funding, scientists will investigate whether adult human stem cells can be stimulated to create myelin. In essence, they will determine if there is an "on" switch that can kick-start the remyelination process for people who have MS.
Date: May 26, 2005
Summary:
CALGARY, May 26 /CNW/ - Three North American research centres are examining the body's own stem cells in hopes that they may hold the key to repairing damage caused by multiple sclerosis. If successful, people with MS may be able to regain losses of physical ability caused by the often-debilitating disease. With the new funding, scientists will investigate whether adult human stem cells can be stimulated to create myelin. In essence, they will determine if there is an "on" switch that can kick-start the remyelination process for people who have MS.
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Protein Helps Regulate The Genes Of Embryonic Stem Cells
Source: University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Posted: May 25, 2005
Summary:
New research from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows how a protein may be crucial to the regulation of genes in embryonic stem cells. The protein, called "eed," is needed for an essential chemical modification of many genes. Embryos cannot survive without the modification. The findings appear in the May 24 issue of the journal Current Biology..
Posted: May 25, 2005
Summary:
New research from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows how a protein may be crucial to the regulation of genes in embryonic stem cells. The protein, called "eed," is needed for an essential chemical modification of many genes. Embryos cannot survive without the modification. The findings appear in the May 24 issue of the journal Current Biology..
Saturday, May 21, 2005
Liver cells 'could beat diabetes'
Source: BBC News
Posted: 21 May, 2005, 23:01 GMT 00:01 UK
Summary:
BBC News reports on a new experiment using adult liver cells to attempt to treat diabetes:
"Scientists have turned adult liver cells into insulin-producing cells able to treat diabetes when transplanted into mice. It is hoped the work will one day allow the use of a diabetes patient's own liver cells to treat their condition."
Posted: 21 May, 2005, 23:01 GMT 00:01 UK
Summary:
BBC News reports on a new experiment using adult liver cells to attempt to treat diabetes:
"Scientists have turned adult liver cells into insulin-producing cells able to treat diabetes when transplanted into mice. It is hoped the work will one day allow the use of a diabetes patient's own liver cells to treat their condition."
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Stem Cell Treatment Improves Mobility After Spinal Cord Injury
Source: University of California - Irvine
Posted: May 10, 2005
Summary:
A treatment derived from human embryonic stem cells improves mobility in rats with spinal cord injuries, providing the first physical evidence that the therapeutic use of these cells can help restore motor skills lost from acute spinal cord tissue damage. Researchers in the Reeve-Irvine Research Center at UC Irvine have found that a human embryonic stem cell-derived treatment they developed was successful in restoring the insulation tissue for neurons in rats treated seven days after the initial injury, which led to a recovery of motor skills. But the same treatment did not work on rats that had been injured for 10 months. The findings point to the potential of using stem cell-derived therapies for treatment of spinal cord damage in humans during the very early stages of the injury.
Posted: May 10, 2005
Summary:
A treatment derived from human embryonic stem cells improves mobility in rats with spinal cord injuries, providing the first physical evidence that the therapeutic use of these cells can help restore motor skills lost from acute spinal cord tissue damage. Researchers in the Reeve-Irvine Research Center at UC Irvine have found that a human embryonic stem cell-derived treatment they developed was successful in restoring the insulation tissue for neurons in rats treated seven days after the initial injury, which led to a recovery of motor skills. But the same treatment did not work on rats that had been injured for 10 months. The findings point to the potential of using stem cell-derived therapies for treatment of spinal cord damage in humans during the very early stages of the injury.
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