A Sydney toddler whose umbilical cord blood was stored to help treat her sister’s Type 1 diabetes has had it reinfused after showing signs of the disease herself. Lucy Hinchion, aged 20 months, on Friday became the youngest child in the world to receive her own cord blood to help prevent or delay the chronic […]

When he was born at Mount Sinai Hospital, Jack was not breathing. Doctors whisked him away from his mother and started efforts to resuscitate him. They managed to save his life but soon had to deliver some bad news to his parents, Stephen Pankratz and Kim Kucher. Their son had Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE), brain […]

By the age of one year old, Neha started missing major growth milestones that a normal baby would achieve in infancy, and that’s when her parents discovered that there is an abnormality. Neha was diagnosed with a rare metabolic disorder called mucopolysaccharidoses VI (MPS VI). The MPS diseases are storage disorders where the patient’s body […]

Keck Medical Center of USC today announced that a team of doctors became the first in California to inject an experimental treatment made from stem cells, AST-OPC1, into the damaged cervical spine of a recently paralyzed 21-year-old man as part of a multi-center clinical trial. On March 6, just shy of his 21st birthday, Kristopher […]

Scientists from Rutgers and Stanford universities have developed a potentially revolutionary technique to grow new neurons from adult stem cells and better ensure their survival during transplantation to the brain. The method, involving the use of 3-D scaffolds, may one day help to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Published in the journal Nature Communications, the study involved a large […]

A single injection of stem cells could one day restore normal bone structure in patients with osteoporosis, say researchers who achieved this reversal in mice. The findings are published in Stem Cells Translational Medicine. lobally, over 200 million people are living with either postmenopausal osteoporosis, which is known as type 1 osteoporosis and affects women […]

Researchers have taken a huge step towards regrowing organs by successfully creating functional heart tissue out of adult stem cells. The breakthrough could mean that repairs to damaged hearts could be performed with a patient’s own cells. That reduces the need to find a matching doner and also reduces chances that the body will reject […]

The safety trial, led by the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, will recruit patients nationally and take place at The Royal Children’s Hospital. Expected to take two years, the study is being funded by the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation and Cell Care, Australia’s largest private cord blood bank. It is the first step in a […]

More than half of all cases of blindness are caused by cataracts – the clouding of the eye’s lens. An implanted lens is normally needed to restore sight, but the operation described in Nature activated stem cells in the eye to grow a new one. Experts describe the breakthrough as one of the finest achievements […]

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation recently secured a provisional patent to protect a new strategy to increase the number of blood stem cells. According to a new study published early online in Stem Cell Reports, Emery Bresnick, a professor of cell and regenerative biology and the director of the UW-Madison Blood Research Program at the […]

Doctors in Spain have announced the world’s first clinical trial to cure five HIV patients within three years using transplants of blood from umbilical cords. Spain’s National Organization of Transplants (ONT) announced a plan that will be the world’s first of its kind to cure five people with HIV over the next three years, recreating […]

An umbilical cord blood donation from one Quebec brother to another has made Canadian history as the first stem-cell transplant among siblings from a public umbilical cord bank. Nolan Laberge, left, was cured of a rare blood cancer thanks to an umbilical cord donation from older brother Nathis, right, made years earlier to a public […]