A new study of mitochondrial deficits in iPSC-derived neural cells, funded by the National Institutes of Health and published in Science Translational Medicine, shows that patient-derived stem cells yield differing responses for cells derived from patients with different etiologies of Parkinson’s disease. The study suggests that Parkinson’s intervention may someday be tailored to individuals based [...]

Researchers say they have completed a new stem cell transplant that rebuilds the circuits in the brain of mice. This could lead eventually to new treatments for conditions from Parkinson’s disease to autism. In the experiment, a team at Harvard University embedded healthy stem cells from mouse embryos into the brains of adult laboratory rodents [...]

Dr. Takashi Tsuji from Tokyo University of Science and his research team were successful in extracting stem cells from the molars of mice. They then transported these cells to the lab where they used them to grow new mouse teeth, The new, lab-grown teeth were then transplanted in the jaws of mice, and full attachment [...]

Reports have come out on long-term studies for stem cell transplants that help fight more aggressive – or rapidly progressing – multiple sclerosis. The treatment is called hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), consists of removing the patient’s immune and other blood cells, then replacing them with new bone marrow stem cells from the same patient. [...]

The US represents the largest regional market for investments in adult stem cells research, as stated by the new market research report on Stem Cells Research. Despite the ban over federal funding for research in embryonic stem cells, North America is presently dominating the stem cells market. Key factors that have kept North American market [...]

Cryo-Save Group N.V., the leading stem cell bank in Europe has announced a release of another sample of umbilical cord blood on December 15, 2010. A boy with cerebral palsy from Portugal, aged 6, has traveled to the Duke University in the United States to take part in a clinical trial for cerebral palsy treatment [...]

Doctors believe an HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant has been cured as a result of the procedure. Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the “Berlin Patient,” received the transplant in 2007 as part of a lengthy treatment course for leukemia. His doctors recently published a report in the journal Blood affirming that [...]

A US company will test human embryonic stem cells to treat blindness in a bid to examine how the controversial procedure works in humans. Advanced Cell Technology, a California-based biotech company, announced the planned test on Monday, the second such clinical trial. Bob Lanza, chief scientific officer at Advanced Cell Technology said that the process [...]

The federal government can continue paying for human embryonic stem cell research while federal lawyers appeal a lower court’s funding ban, according to a Sept. 28 decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia. Earlier in September, the court issued an emergency stay of the lower court’s injunction. [...]

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) can continue to support human embryonic stem cell research while the government fights a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s funding policies, an appeals court ruled late Tuesday. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia permanently stayed an injunction imposed on Aug. 23 by U.S. District [...]