Two million people in the United Sates suffer from critical limb ischemia, or poor blood flow to their legs. As the number of diabetics soars, the number of those affected is expected to almost double by 2020. The condition causes severe pain and chronic infection. Surgery to open blocked veins is often the treatment, but [...]
Stem Cell Therapy treating Incurable diseases
The use of stem cells continues to rage, many people are starting to look to the potential upside of using stem cells as a deciding factor. Stem cells have remarkable potential to be used to test new drugs, cure previously thought of as incurable diseases, and possibly cure many different types of cancer.
Stem Cells can [...]
Stem cell therapy for heart patients
First heart attack damage can now be reversed with stem cell therapy.
An intravenous method of injecting stem cells into patients who had experienced heart attacks within the previous 10 days suggested that this method works to repair — not just manage – heart damage, a recent study found.
The new results are a milestone in stem [...]
Liver Cells discovered from the human skin cells
Liver cells from the skin cells of people, potentially paving the way toward better treatments for those with liver disease.
“This is a crucial step forward towards developing therapies that can potentially replace the need for scarce liver transplants, currently the only treatment for most advanced liver disease,” the study’s lead author, Stephen A. Duncan.
Liver disease [...]
Cord Blood Stem Cell for Lung Disease-Kidney and Lupus
Umbilical cord blood from newborn babies can be used to produce embryonic-like cells that can potentially treat diseases and debilitating conditions.
Now it is possible to differentiate cord blood cells into a type of lung cell. These cells help to repair the airway in lungs after injury. This is a significant discovery because until now the [...]
Collaboration of SCGF with Korean Center
Stem cell therapy has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of a variety of human ailments. 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.
Two Different [...]
Stem Cell Transplant saved life of Patients suffering from incurable diseases
The cancer that has riddled Jordyn Boucher’s blood since she was 15 months old is progressing.
Santa made a special trip to Brentwood last week so Jordyn’s family could celebrate Christmas before they traveled to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., where Jordyn will receive a bone marrow transplant from her father, Brian. Jordyn’s [...]
Stem cells save limb damage
Blood vessel blockage, a common condition in old age or diabetes, leads to low blood flow and results in low oxygen, which can kill cells and tissues. Such blockages can require amputation of limbs. Developed therapies that increase blood flow, improve movement and decrease tissue death and the need for amputation.
“In a young, healthy [...]
Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple sclerosis
Ben Leahy, 20, was diagnosed with the disease in 2008 and lost the ability to stand within a few months.
However, a new procedure to combat the disease has helped him regain his health and he is now walking again. The treatment targets the immune system of multiple sclerosis patients, which turns in on it causing [...]