8/23/2010
Célle(SM) Menstrual Stem Cell Technology License Partner Opens State-of-the-Art Laboratory and Research & Development Facility in China
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8/17/2010
Australian-Based Researchers to Explore Potential of Menstrual Blood Stem Cells to Treat Autoimmune Disease
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3/1/2010
Company Reports Profitable Fiscal 2009 With Net Income of $1.4 Million
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12/30/2009
Free C’elle collection and 20 year storage to be awarded to one video entrant through its “Resolution Revolution” New Year’s promotion
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12/29/2009
Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Therapy Treats Young Mother’s Aplastic Anemia
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12/24/2009
Research suggests the vitamin helps reprogramming of adult stem cells to become induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)
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12/21/2009
XCell-Center in Dusseldorf specializes in autologous stem cell treatments
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12/18/2009
MIT Professor Explains how iPS cells opened new avenues for possible treatment of diseases such as Parkinson’s Disease and type 1 diabetes
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12/14/2009
Australian physicians used stem cells to “reset” the patient’s immune system
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12/14/2009
Research study led by Dr. Wise Young of Rutgers will study how stem cell treatments using cord blood could be used to cure spinal cord injuries
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12/13/2009
Global Hospitals expects to start treating patients with type 1 diabetes by June 2010
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12/8/2009
Researchers from Duke University and Aldagen, Inc. Report at American Society of Hematology’s Annual Meeting
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11/24/2009
Scientists confirm that studies add to the potential uses for cord blood stem cells
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11/18/2009
Thanks to a transplant of stem cells from her brother’s umbilical cord blood, eight-year-old Thamirabharuni Kumar is beating thalassemia.
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11/18/2009
Northwestern University researcher rebuilding weak hearts
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11/18/2009
“Informed Choice” legislation would require doctors to give expectant parents information about collecting and banking cord blood stem cells
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11/17/2009
Texas man reports improvements after autologous stem cell treatment in Thailand for heart failure; more than 200 scientific trials underway in U.S. for stem cell treatments for heart disease.
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11/16/2009
Cardiologist is using stem cell therapy sees “extraordinary” results
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11/12/2009
Family Research Council shares stories of successful stem cell transplant patients
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11/7/2009
Increasing demand for stem cell treatments including regenerative medicine and drug discovery
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11/6/2009
Phase II clinical study involving stem cell treatment for cardiovascular disease is underway
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11/2/2009
Investigational Product Shown to Expand Population of Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells for Treatment of Leukemia and Lymphoma
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11/1/2009
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute funds multi-year, multimillion dollar project to focus on stem and progenitor cell tools and treatments
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10/29/2009
Funding will support stem cell research into treating cancer, diabetes and a host of other devastating diseases that scientists hope will be ready to test in human subjects in the next four years.
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10/28/2009
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine awards grants to fast-track development of stem cell-based treatments for diseases including sickle cell disease, HIV/AIDS and brain, ovarian and colorectal cancers.
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10/28/2009
Real Salt Lake Midfielder’s Andy Williams’ Improved Performance Coincides with His Wife’s Improved Health
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10/19/2009
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) announced updates to the Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology(TM) for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) to include cord blood as an official stem cell treatment option.
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10/14/2009
The PGA of Australia reports in a statement that, “thanks to a miraculous recovery, American crowd favorite and dual Major winner John Daly will return to Australia in December to play the 2009 Australian Open and the Australian PGA Championship…”
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10/6/2009
Ongoing Initiatives Include Research Partnership with National Institutes of Health to Study C’elle Menstrual Blood Stem Cells
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9/29/2009
Cryo-Cell Inc. CEO Mercedes Walton Hopeful that Momentum on Stem Cell Initiatives Will Continue
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9/16/2009
Children’s Hospital of Colorado enrolling patients for a cord blood stem cell transplant study
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9/14/2009
A Texas-based organization reports that it will raise $3 million to help fund the first non-controversial stem cell trials for people with Spinal Cord Injury.
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9/12/2009
Stem cell treatment helps boy with cerebral palsy
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9/10/2009
The California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded a total of $5.42 million in stem cell grants to four scientists at UCLA's Broad Stem Cell Research Center.
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9/3/2009
Neuroscientist outlines reasons for changing his position regarding the importance of storing stem cells from cord blood
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9/3/2009
Harvard University’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (SCRB) has introduced a new field of study as a concentration to its undergraduate students, called human development and regenerative biology (HDRB).
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9/1/2009
Proposed legislation promoting awareness for benefits of cord blood storage has bipartisan support
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8/25/2009
Cincinnati doctors pay to bank stem cells from baby's cord blood.
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8/10/2009
The Wall Street Journal’s Jeremy Singer-Vine reports that researchers at the Tokyo University of Science have used stem cells to grow a replacement tooth for a mouse. A report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports that this is the first time that scientists have developed a fully functioning three-dimensional organ replacement using stem cells. The scientists created a set of cells that contained genetic instructions to build a tooth, and then implanted it into the mouse’s tooth socket. The tooth grew in the same manner that a natural one would. After 11 weeks, it had a similar shape, hardness and response to pain or stress as a natural tooth, and worked equally well for chewing. The researchers suggested that using similar techniques in humans could restore function to patients with organ failure.
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8/7/2009
Dr. Max Gomez of WCBS TV reports on a clinic near Denver, Colorado that is using adult stem cells to treat osteo-arthritis of the knee, hip, ankle, and even back pain. Dr. Christopher Centeno and two of his patients discuss the process and their experience.
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8/7/2009
BBC News reports that researchers in Sao Paulo, Brazil have discovered that fallopian tubes are an abundant source of mesenchymal stem cells. Because fallopian tubes normally are discarded during surgeries such as hysterectomies, they may be good source for non-controversial donor cells for regenerative medicine. In addition, the researchers anticipate that the cells could be useful for understanding and treating fertility problems. The researchers’ findings were published in the Journal of Transitional Medicine.
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8/7/2009
Alan Mozes of BusinessWeek’s HealthDay reports on a milestone in stem cell research. Chinese scientists have grown healthy, fertile mice by using pluripotent stem cells (iPS) derived not from controversial embryonic stem cells, but instead from those of adult mice.
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8/7/2009
Birmingham Business Journal - Jimmy DeButts reports in article entitled “UAB to Bring Jobs, Research through Stem Cell Institute.” The University of Alabama at Birmingham is building on the success of its existing biotech research facilities to create a Stem Cell Institute.
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8/4/2009
Paula Moyer reports for Dermatology Times that researchers believe adult stem cells may have a greater role in wound healing in the future. William J. Landis, Ph.D., at the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy says that he and his co-workers have been conducting tissue-engineering research with bovine models to learn if stem cells can heal wounds in bones, cartilage and tendons. "Dermatologists should know that investigators are exploring the possibility of promoting wound healing with stem cell treatments,” he said. "Serious cutaneous and connective tissue pathologies should be treatable with stem cells. This is an area of medicine that has broad potential, and I would encourage dermatologists to be involved in the research investigating stem cell use for wound healing in as wide a spectrum of applications as possible," Dr. Landis said. Dr. Landis reports that stem cells may be readily available from a variety of sources, including cord blood and bone
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8/4/2009
Tom Blackwell of the National Post reports that Toronto-based researchers have found that usually discarded umbilical cords are a plentiful source of mesenchymal stem cells. A group of researchers at Princess Margaret Hospital and the University of Toronto in Ontario say they’ve discovered that umbilical cords are a “virtually inexhaustible” and non-controversial source of promising stem cells.
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8/1/2009
Stem cell treatments are gaining momentum as a viable option for successfully slowing down -- or potentially halting -- the progression of type 1 diabetes.
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7/30/2009
The University of Florida’s John Pastor reports that researchers at the university have programmed bone marrow stem cells to repair damaged retinas in mice. This suggests that there is potential to treat common causes of vision loss in humans, such as macular degeneration, which affects nearly 2 million people in the United States, and some forms of blindness related to diabetes. Researchers removed blood stem cells from the bone marrow of mice, modified the cells in cultures, and injected them back into the animals’ circulatory systems. From there, the stem cells were able to hone in on the eye injury and become retinal cells. At 28 days after receiving the modified stem cells, mice that had previously demonstrated no retinal function were no different than normal mice in electrical measures of their response to light. The University of Florida’s College of Medicine reports that the success in repairing a damaged layer of retinal cells in mice implies that blood stem cells take
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7/28/2009
Medical News Today reports that the Center for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine has received $5 million in funding from Ohio’s Third Frontier Commission under the Research Commercialization Program. The Ohio Third Frontier is a bipartisan organization whose aim is to promote the state’s technological strengths and help with commercialization of technologies. The funding will help support new and innovative stem cell technologies including two commercial, four emerging and three pilot projects. This funding will be matched by each of the projects to create a $10 million grant benefiting stem cell and regenerative medicine in Ohio. The Center for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine (CSCRM) is comprised of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland Clinic (CC), University Hospitals (UH), and Athersys, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company. "This funding provides CSCRM the support it needs to continue to aggressively move new technologies from academic
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7/28/2009
Promising research which may potentially improve a person’s recovery after suffering a heart attack.
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7/28/2009
ScienceDaily reports that biomedical engineering students at Johns Hopkins University have demonstrated a way to embed a patient's own adult stem cells in the surgical thread that doctors use to repair serious orthopedic injuries such as ruptured tendons. The goal, the students said, is to enhance healing and reduce the likelihood of re-injury without changing the surgical procedure itself. At the site of the injury, the stem cells are expected to reduce inflammation and release growth factor proteins that speed up healing, enhancing the prospects for a full recovery and reducing the likelihood of re-injury. In collaboration with orthopedic physicians, the team's preliminary experiments in an animal model have yielded promising results. Provided the trials continue to be successful, it is estimated that possible human trials could take place within about five years. “We believe the stem cells will significantly speed up and improve the healing process,” said Ma
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7/24/2009
Study aims to learn whether treating newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetics with adult stem cells can either slow or stop the progression of their disease, thereby reducing or even eliminating insulin dependence.
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7/24/2009
Laura Ungar of the Louisville Courier-Journal reports on one of the world’s first recipients of an infusion of cardiac stem cells as a part of a Phase 1 clinical trial being conducted by a team of University of Louisville physicians at Jewish Hospital.
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7/16/2009
Researchers from the City of Hope National Medical Center have reported on a study that suggests that there continues to be improvement in the results of stem cell treatments for patients with secondary leukemia and myelodysplasia.
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7/10/2009
The Reporter’s Kathy Whitney reports that Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute recently enrolled its first patient in a Phase II clinical trial using stem cell treatments aimed to reverse damage to the patient's cardiac muscle caused by heart disease.
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7/6/2009
CEO praises legislative progress to date and encouraging continued momentum for existing bills through the second half of the year.
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6/30/2009
Forbes.com reports that American physicians have performed the first procedure in which a patient received injections of his own heart stem cells to repair cardiac muscle damaged by heart attack.
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6/12/2009
Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) is conducting this double blind study on the effectiveness of a new therapy using adult stem cells to treat type 1 diabetes.
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6/5/2009
Current research indicates that it may be possible to “fix a broken heart.” Adult stem cells may be used to help replace damaged heart muscles, heart tissue, valves and establish new blood vessels to supply them.
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6/3/2009
Dayton Ohio Daily News reports that the state’s house unanimously voted in favor of the Cord Blood Education Bill. Under this bill, pregnant women in the state of Ohio would be told about the benefits of storing their newborn’s umbilical cord blood.
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5/31/2009
The Houston Chronicle reports that doctors from the University of Texas Medical School have launched the nation's first experimental trial to treat stroke patients with their own stem cells. This new treatment is directed at patients who were not able to receive a tissue plasminogen activator or who did not respond to the treatment, which is reported as the only treatment available now for stroke victims. Neurologist and Professor Sean Savitz reported that the trial's first patient was treated on March 25, 2009 and is doing well. "We're just at the beginning, but this could be an exciting new area of therapeutic intervention for stroke," said the doctor, adding, "It could be the next frontier."
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5/29/2009
Over the past four years, the Reina Sofía hospital in Córdoba, Spain has been conducting clinical trials using stem cells to treat patients who have suffered one or more heart attacks. One trial in particular, completed in 2007, concluded that one type of stem cell therapy showed great promise. The test consisted of 30 patients who had suffered severe myocardial infarction, or an obstruction of a main coronary artery. One third of the patients received standard treatment; the second group was treated with a medication called G-CSF, which makes cells move from the marrow to the blood, thereby reaching the heart. The third group received stem cells from their bone marrow, which were implanted directly into the coronary artery via catheter.
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5/28/2009
Courtney Ann Jackson of Talk Radio News Service reports on actress Mary Tyler Moore’s announcement of an upcoming Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation event.
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5/28/2009
Science Daily reports that researchers at the University at Buffalo have demonstrated that injecting adult bone marrow stem cells into skeletal muscle can repair cardiac tissue and reverse heart failure. The study, performed on an animal, showed that this non-invasive procedure increased the number of heart cells two-fold and reduced cardiac tissue injury by 60 percent. It also showed an improved function of the left ventricle, the heart’s primary pumping chamber, by 40%, and reduced fibrosis, the hardening of the heart lining that impairs its ability to contract, by 50%. The novel method of delivering mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) via an intramuscular route is preferable over clinical trials which have focused more often on invasive procedures such as introducing stem cells directly into the heart. These methods carry more risks and can result in harmful scar tissue, arrhythmia, calcification or small vessel blockages. "For these reasons, and because patients with heart failure
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5/28/2009
Phase I trial investigating the potential use of stem cells to help reduce or eliminate kidney transplant patients’ reliance on anti-rejection medications
