OVERALL SUCCESSES ‘Optimal construct determined for generation of muscle-derived stem cells,’ BioNews, September 14, 2005, STEM CELL SOURCES ‘Cytori Therapeutics demonstrates adipose-derived adult stem and regenerative cells enhance cardiac function in preclinical study,’ Genetic Engineering News, September 12, 2005, CORD BLOOD ‘Israeli stem cell research shows umbilical cord blood can rejuvenate damaged heart tissue,’ Israel21c, […] Read more
Feminist authors discuss modern reprotech, the physical risks to the female body, and broader sociological concerns on 3 May 2006 in the European Parliament, Room ASP 1A2, Brussels. Registration recommended but no fee for conference. Please register by post, telephone or email. CORE PO Box 4593 London SW3 6XE UK Tel: 0044 207 581 2623 […] Read more
Doctors have carried out the world’s first transplant of adult stem cells into an orthopaedic patient who suffered from a non-healing broken femur. Such a treatment has considerable advantages over the standard bone graft, which involves a separate incision, taking a large amount of bone marrow from the patient’s hip which can be painful and […] Read more
A paralysed 18 year old, Jacki Rabon, who was injured in a car accident in August 2003, is now able to walk with braces six months after being treated with her own nasal adult stem cells. The operation took place at Hospital Egaz Moniz in Lisbon in October 2005 and involved taking olfactory tissue from […] Read more
The Lancet online reports that scientists have managed for the first time to grow bladders from patients’ own cells and transplant them into seven patients ranging from 4 years to 19 years old. Researchers at Boston’s Children’s Hospital removed the tissue from the patients and grew the cells on bladder-shaped scaffolds of collagen. The 1.5 […] Read more
