News archive май 2006

Martin Mark, 33, who came to the United States from Uganda 11 years ago to get an education, is now working on a master's degree in computer systems and international business at New Mexico State University. He is also battling a disease, chronic myelogenous leukemia. Though it is now controlled by drugs, the only possible cure is a transplant of cells that would enable bone marrow to form new blood cells.

A new cancer treatment that specifically targets cancer cells without harming normal ones and research demonstrating how adult stem cells can be induced to form new pancreatic islet cells to combat diabetes and prevent diabetic retinopathy are among the exciting new therapies and technologies that will be available for licensing at the 2006 Florida Tech Transfer Conference on May 23.

     In what's being called a huge development, researchers have now found stem cells can wipe out lupus in certain patients.

A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has published a new study of important signaling pathways that are required for the expansion of pancreas stem cells, work that may lead to strategies to prevent or reverse insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM).

Experts have long suspected that one way antidepressants such as Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft dispel depression is by stimulating the growth of new brain cells. Now, researchers say they've zeroed in on just how that happens.

Austrianova today announced that it has started industrial production of its lead product NovaCaps®. Austrianova is the first company worldwide that has been successful in developing a market scale, GMP compliant, industrial production process for encapsulated cell products.

A man from Kent suffering from multiple sclerosis (MS) has said his condition has improved 11 days after having stem cell treatment in the Netherlands.

Researchers of the University of Jaen, Almeria and Granada, who belong to the group “Nuevas Tecnologías aplicadas a la Investigación” (CTS-107, new technologies applied to research) led by Dr. Antonia Aránega, in collaboration with the University of Malaga, are working on the recovery of cartilaginous microlesions in elite sportspeople using adult and embryonic stem cells.

German researchers say stem-cell testing can be used to replace hundreds of thousands of experiments on animals.

BioE(R), Inc., a biomedical company providing human cord blood stem cells as enabling, high-quality cellular tools for drug discovery and therapeutic research, announced today researchers at the University of Minnesota, using BioE's proprietary stem cell isolation technology, derived the company's Multi-Lineage Progenitor Cell^(TM) (MLPC^(TM)) from cord blood and differentiated it into lung cells responsible for making surfactant, a substance enabling respiration.

A leading British neuroscientist believes he will be in a position to treat patients with spinal cord injuries using stem cells later this year. Prof Geoffrey Raisman from the Institute of Neurology at University College London will reveal the extent of his research at a stem cell conference in NUI Galway.

ReNeuron Group plc (LSE: RENE.L) today announces that it has signed an agreement with Chemicon International, Inc. ('Chemicon'), a subsidiary of Serologicals Corporation (NASDAQ/NM: SERO), whereby Chemicon will exclusively manufacture and distribute two of ReNeuron's patented ReNcell neural stem cell lines worldwide for research purposes.

Some of the most heartening reports in stem cell research have come from doctors who showed that injecting damaged hearts with stem cells could revive them. But how the stem cells heal the heart has been far more controversial.

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.

Cygenics (ASX: CYN) announce the first cystic fibrosis cord blood collection. Clinical history was made at The Mercy Hospital in Werribee on Easter Saturday, when baby Aiden Brundell donated his cord blood in the hope that his precious stem cells could one day rejuvenate sister Mikaela's lungs, which are failing from cystic fibrosis (CF), and save her life.

Transplants involving immature, stem cell-generated nervous system "support cells" helped repair damaged spinal cords in rats, researchers report.

Unrelated cord blood transplantation is an alternative for adults with hematological malignancies lacking an HLA-matched donor.

THE wife of a multiple sclerosis suffererspoke yesterday of how her husband's life had been transformed after he received controversial stem cell treatment at an Irish surgery which is now at the centre of an investigation by medical authorities.