Adult Stem Cells Found in Pancreas in Mice
This could be great news aways down the road for diabetics. From the story: An international team of researchers has finally managed to locate stem cells in the pancreas--in mice, at least.If the...
View ArticleAnd Those Adult Stem Cell Hits Just Keep on Coming
A man's jaw was refashioned using adult stem cells from his own fat. From the story: Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated...
View ArticleMMSupport.net unveils âAsk the Expertâ, featuring Multiple Myeloma...
MMSupport.net unveils “Ask the Expert”, featuring Multiple Myeloma physician and scientist, James R. Berenson, M.D. Ask the Expert is a free online web-forum where Myeloma and Bone Cancer specialist,...
View ArticleEmbryonic Stem Cell Trials in Humans Could Begin in Months
If all goes as planned, a California biotech firm will begin human testing using human-based embryonic stem cells by Spring of 2008. Dr. Thomas Okarma, CEO of Geron, said the firm plans to conduct......
View ArticleTrounson vs. Neaves: Embryonic Stem Cell Reality versus the Politics of Hype
I wrote the other day about the hype merchant, William Neaves of the Stowers Institute, continuing to tout embryonic stem cells--which he usually intentionally confuses with human cloning--as moving on...
View ArticleEmbryonic Stem Cell Superiority Myth is Crumbling
With the exception of the Missouri media and perhaps, the New York Times, it is now clear that adult stem cells offer tremendous hope for treatments for a wide variety of ailments. The Journal of the...
View ArticleCancer Stem Cells and Familial Cancer Risk for Breast Cancer
One of the most important current trends in cancer biology is the study of cancer stem cells. The cancer stem cell model holds that cancer originates in tissue stem cells, and that dysregulation of...
View ArticleStem Cell Reality Check
A big confab of Big Biotech bigwigs has resulted in some candor and a proper warning about the prospect of CURES! CURES! CURES! From the story: In an elegant hotel overlooking the Pacific Ocean, more...
View ArticleStem Cell Therapy/Tourism?
There are a lot of experimental and “alternative” treatments out there for autism, one of which is stem cell therapy. There are currently no clinical trials underway in the US for using stem cell...
View ArticleMouse Study: Alzheimer's Could be Helped with Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells
This is a proof of principle experiment, with a long way to go for human application (if evern), but this is a very encouraging experiment. UCB stem cells may open a door to treating Alzheimer's...
View ArticleAdult Stem Cells from Uterus Treat Parkinson's in Mice
Well, the old days of "the scientists" such as some of the people over at Amendment in Missouri telling reporters and legislators that adult stem cells are merely "unipotent," that is, that they can...
View ArticleLead Into Gold: IPSCs Improve Parkinson's in Rats
A new study has just been released finding that the new Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells were efficacious in alleviating the symptoms of Parkinson's in rats. From the story: A novel and untested stem...
View ArticleChronic Graft vs. Host Disease Web cast
I just got this via email. The National Bone Marrow Transplant Link is working with Dr. Steven Pavletic and his staff at the National Institutes of Health to develop a web cast on Coping with Chronic...
View ArticleNatural Killer Cells in Cord Blood Can Fight Leukemia
Researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center are using natural killer cells from cord blood to kill human leukemia cells in rats. Patrick Zweidler-McKay, MD, PhD has found a...
View ArticleAdult Stem Cells to treat ALS: UBC study
By Alex SchadenbergA possible breakthrough treatment for people with ALS is being developed at the University of British Columbia (UBC) by Dr. Neil Cashman with results being published in the journal,...
View ArticleAdult Stem Cell/Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells Treat Fatal Disease
This is great: A child with a fatal genetic disease has apparently been treated effectively with a combination of adult/umbilical cord blood stem cells. From the story: In October 2007, Nate Liao...
View ArticleAdult Stem Cells Taken from Parkinson's Disease Patients Produce Dopamin...
This could be the early stages of some very good news for Parkinson's patients. Two years ago SHS readers learned that human paralyzed spinal cord injury patients have had feeling restored with their...
View ArticleIgA is pretty stable
This is a chart of my IgA values since before the SCT last summer. I stopped Velcade and Doxil in July, 2007 and the SCT took place at the end of August. This is quantitative serum IgA in mg/dL. The...
View ArticleBIO 2008: The Sequencer and the Terminator
Scheduled meetings kept me from the events Iâd most wanted to attend: ⢠the live versions of Schwarzeneggerâs and Craig Venterâs keynotes (I made it to the tail end of the âoverflowâ line,...
View ArticleStem Cell Tourism
Occasionally we will receive questions from parents looking for information on using stem cells to treat diseases that are not on the list of approved treatments or even disorders that are being...
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