News archive апрель 2006
30 апреля 2006
Stem cells and how to boost them is hot on the research agenda. But stopping them could be critical too, as evidence implicating stem cells in cancer is mounting.
29 апреля 2006
This technology relates to the generation of a population of Muller cells with stem/progenitor characteristics that can be used to restore and regenerate retinal anatomy and function in ophthalmic conditions.
28 апреля 2006
Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN - News) announced today that it has been granted U.S. Patent No. 7,033,831, covering the production of insulin secreting cells from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). 27 апреля 2006
Vet-Stem, Inc., announced that 1,000 horses have now been treated with regenerative stem cell therapy in the U.S.
26 апреля 2006
A team in the Netherlands has successfully harvested spermatogonial stem cells from cows and cultured them inside mouse testes. The hope is that the same thing could be done for men.
25 апреля 2006
Animal study shows promise for treatment of Alport syndrome
24 апреля 2006
Biotech contract manufacturer Inno Biologics Sdn Bhd has entered into a joint venture with a Japanese company to manufacture liver cells from stem cells which will be used in toxicity studies.
23 апреля 2006
The first clinic, the Institute for Cellular Medicine, is set to open this summer in Costa Rica, where new medical treatments don't face the intense scrutiny they do in the United States.
22 апреля 2006
Aldagen, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared an Investigational New Drug (IND) application to conduct a clinical trial using Aldagen’s ALDESORT product to isolate a unique stem cell population for therapy for critical limb ischemia patients.
21 апреля 2006
Cytori Therapeutics Inc. said on Thursday that it will begin the first clinical trial to test whether stem cells derived from fat can be used to regenerate breast tissue in Japan next month.
21 апреля 2006
Stem cells can be prompted to develop into bone, instead of muscle or cartilage tissue, if they are grown on a substrate etched with nanoscopic patterns – and no added chemicals – researchers have found.
20 апреля 2006
Lifebank-USA said Tuesday it will start banking stem cells derived from placentas.
19 апреля 2006
Moraga Biotechnology Corp. discovers a new method for isolating and purifying embryonic-like adult stem cells in the blood
18 апреля 2006
Rush cardiologists are hoping that transplanted stem cells can regenerate damaged heart muscle in those who experience a first heart attack. The study involves an intravenous infusion of adult mesenchymal stem cells from healthy donor bone marrow that might possibly reverse damage to heart tissue.
17 апреля 2006
Howard Hughes Medical Institute is looking into the unique properties of stem cells that both cause normal blood cells to develop, and that also may cause leukemia.
16 апреля 2006
Thailand will carry out an experiment on the efficacy and safety of stem cell technology in curing heart disease, the first-ever official test on stem cell treatment on humans, local media reported on Sunday.
15 апреля 2006
A single dose of adult donor stem cells given to animals that have neurological damage similar to that experienced by adults with a stroke or newborns with cerebral palsy can significantly enhance recovery from these types of injuries, researchers say. 14 апреля 2006
TheraVitae Ltd. announced that the first clinical trial using its autologous adult stem cells from peripheral blood to treat patients suffering from severe Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) of the lower limbs has commenced at Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand.
13 апреля 2006
By IANS, A Singapore company has used stem cells to help victims of serious burns and other wounds grow fresh skin, its chief medical officer said in a report published Friday.
13 апреля 2006
A SINGAPORE company has used stem cells to help victims of serious burns and other wounds to grow fresh skin. While more work must be done to test the promise of the new treatment, the procedure has so far allowed three patients to do away with painful skin grafts.
12 апреля 2006
By injecting human stem cells into laboratory mice and creating various human tissues, researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a way to conduct “human” drug trials on animals.
11 апреля 2006
Adult stem cells aspirated from a patient's own bone marrow could become a new treatment option for atrophic nonunions.
10 апреля 2006
About 70 HIV-positive adults in California are participating in a clinical trial that combines stem cell technology and genetic engineering to create what researchers call a “parallel immune” system to fight the disease
09 апреля 2006
Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that it has completed enrollment in a human clinical trial designed to evaluate the safety and preliminary effectiveness of its universal adult stem cell drug candidate Provacel(TM), being developed to treat patients suffering from heart attacks. A total of 53 patients were enrolled in the Phase I trial at ten leading heart centers across the country.
08 апреля 2006
CellResearch Corporation, a Singapore-based biotech company, announced in July 2005 its discovery of a new source of stem cells found in the outer lining membrane of the umbilical cord.
07 апреля 2006
The Royal Melbourne Hospital has performed the world's first implant of cultured stem cells in an orthopaedic patient.
06 апреля 2006
A surgeon at Children's Hospital Boston may have found a better way to repair tears to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), a knee injury suffered by more than 100,000 Americans each year, particularly teenage girls.
05 апреля 2006
A novel growth factor significantly improves the ability of specialized stem cells derived from human fat to be transformed into cartilage cells, according to Duke University Medical Center and Pratt School of Engineering researchers.
05 апреля 2006
Researchers said yesterday that they have grown complete urinary bladders in a laboratory and transplanted them into patients, improving their health and achieving a Holy Grail of medicine: the first cultivation of working replacements for failing solid organs in people.
04 апреля 2006
Researchers Dan Gazit and colleagues at Hadassah Medical Center in Israel engineered mouse mesenchymal stem cells, which reside in the bone marrow and fat tissue, to express a protein called Smad8 and another called BMP2, each involved in the formation of bone and cartilage.
03 апреля 2006
One of the great challenges for treating Parkinson's diseases and other neurodegenerative disorders is getting medicine to the right place in the brain.
02 апреля 2006
U.S. researchers said yesterday they had transformed immature cells from men's testicles into stem cells, which they then coaxed into becoming nerve, heart and bone cells.
01 апреля 2006
Because granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) has anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective properties and is known to mobilize stem cells, it may be useful in the treatment of acute ischemic stroke. We sought to examine the feasibility, safety and efficacy of using G-CSF to treat acute stroke.
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