Stem cell advance could be key step toward treating deadly blood diseases

by rss feed | May 19, 2016 | News Feeds, Stem Cell Research

Scientists at the UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research have made several discoveries that are critically important to understanding how blood stem cells…

Does freeze-thawing and IV delivery affect the therapeutic potential of mesenchymal stromal cells?

by rss feed | May 3, 2016 | News Feeds, Stem Cell Research

Before the therapeutic potential of using human tissue-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) to treat immune and degenerative diseases can be fully determined, the effects of freeze-thawing and…

USC study shows how skeletal stem cells form the blueprint of the face

by rss feed | Apr 22, 2016 | News Feeds, Stem Cell Research

Timing is everything when it comes to the development of the vertebrate face.

Stem cell technique predicts patients likely to have severe chemo reaction

by rss feed | Apr 20, 2016 | News Feeds, Stem Cell Research

Study shows heart cells generated from a patient’s own skin-derived stem cells can predict if they are likely to suffer severe heart muscle damage from a common chemotherapy drug.

Unchecked mitochondrial DNA mutations could be a problem for stem cell therapies

by rss feed | Apr 14, 2016 | News Feeds, Stem Cell Research

Mutations accumulate in human mitochondrial DNA with age, reports a study published April 14 in Cell Stem Cell.

Tracking of therapeutic stem cells reveals no cancer risk

by rss feed | Apr 8, 2016 | News Feeds, Stem Cell Research

Growing pluripotent stem cells in a lab for therapeutic purposes in regenerative medicine does not cause genetic changes that could lead to cancer, researchers say.