New technologies like organic cement used in repairing spinal fractures might soon help bone marrow cancer patients. A project led by University of Leeds engineers will focus on the incurable cancer of the bone marrow that causes destructive lesions (abnormal tissue) in bones and makes them more susceptible to fracture. The study will analyze whether techniques such as injecting organic cements Readmore
Stem cell therapy for thalassemia patients
Stem cell have already changed—and saved—thousands of lives around the world. They have already been used to treat more than 70 diseases, including numerous types of malignancies, anemia’s, inherited metabolic disorders and deficiencies of the immune system. Exactly 49 days ago, Harshil Nanda was a severely ill thalassemia patient with B positive blood group. Today, he is a healthy Readmore
STEM CELL THERAPY FOR PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE
Stem cell therapy is relatively new and fast developing field. There is huge interest among general public, patients suffering from incurable and difficult to cure diseases, professionals, scientists and investors in this area of therapeutic medicine. Significant stem cell research has grown rapidly in the past few years, with series of important discoveries, such as induced pluripotent stem, Readmore
THE DENTAL STEM CELL ADVANTAGE
The presence of stem cell in milk tooth or the wisdom tooth was found more by accident in 2003 by Dr. Songtao Shi, an American stem cell scientist and a former pedodontist. His 6-year-old daughter decided her father should take out her wobbly milk tooth rather than her mother. When he glanced in the tooth, he noticed the pulp which was still living. In his laboratory, Dr. Shi extracted cells Readmore
Stem Cells Cut AIDS in Patient
A German AIDS patient was able to stop drugs he had been taking for 10 years after getting a transplant of stem cells from a donor with a rare gene variant known to resist the deadly disease. The transplant also cured his leukemia. The stem cell donor was among the 1 percent of Caucasians who have the variant gene that lacks a section known as CCR5 that helps the AIDS virus enter a cell. Readmore
Stem cells in breast milk for baby’s ‘genetic destiny’
London, Nov 22 (ANI): A new research has found three different types of stem cells in breast milk which may be the reason why mother’s milk is deemed best for babies. Dr Mark Cregan, medical director at the Swiss healthcare and baby equipment company Medela, has discovered adult stem cells of epithelial (mammary) and immune origin and found “very preliminary evidence” that stem cells in Readmore
Cerebral Palsy Treated with Cord Blood Stem Cells
For the thousands of families every year who learn that their infant has cerebral palsy (CP), the diagnosis can be devastating news. According to the CDC, about 100,000 babies in the US alone are affected each year by cerebral palsy. In most children, CP causes not only physical, but mental impairments. Treatments in the past have centered on managing the challenges of the disorder. That could Readmore
Unknown Baby’s Cord blood stem cells saved Leukemia patient’s life
When Philips Meehan, 43 of West Sussex was diagnosed with Leukemia in 2007 he needed a bone marrow transplant. But chances seemed meek as he had no family matches and a live donor could not be found despite a 6 month search by the Anthony Nolan Trust and the NHS. It was then that Phillips was advised to go for the relatively new, but not experimental cord blood treatment. After a transplant Readmore
Cancer treatment by SCGF doctor in America
Stem cell therapy has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of a variety of human conditions. Rather than addressing the symptoms of a particular disease or condition, stem cell therapy seeks to address the cause of the condition, to effect repair or reversal of the disease state through the regeneration of the affected tissue. Now a day treating incurable diseases is not a major issue, Readmore
Stem Cell Therapy helped patients for Multiple Sclerosis in Germany
Some of the patients have been treated and shown live sharing their experience and improvement after getting treatment for Multiple Sclerosis. Amanda, a 19 yr old girl and Jim Haverlock was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis by Stem Cell Therapy and Saw improvement. Amanda 19 year old girl: I am walking again, after spending the last year in a wheelchair. Amanda says that after receiving the Readmore