As ideas on the potential ability of some adult tissue stem cells to accelerate repair of damaged or injured tissues have grown to be more widely disseminated, so has interest grown in developing stem cell treatments within standard medical practice. In particular, chronic debilitating ailments like joint pain and low back pain, caused either by
With the tsunami of research on pluripotent stem cells induced by a 2012 Nobel Prize, in the past several years, adult tissue stem cells experienced a major loss of interest and research effort. Yet, the greatest progress in stem cell medicine is still due to, in some cases well-known and in other cases not so
Ad Hoc Stem Cell Medical Research? Eight General Principles For Its Advance Stem cell medicine has a new rapidly moving frontier of research and treatment activity. To help keep that frontier from getting too wild, stem cellbiologist and physician scientist James Sherley recently teamed up with Boston Biolife to provide continuing stem cell medical education
Adult tissue stem cells have a growing list of current and potential medical applications, including drug development; gene therapy; bone marrow or corneal restoration; treatments for low back pain and other degenerative joint diseases; treatments for heart attack and stroke; treatment for chronic illnesses like multiple sclerosis (MS) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); treatment for
Since the beginnings of the field of stem cell biology, more than half a century ago, it has not been possible to count adult tissue stem cells in experimental and clinical preparations. This surprising, but widely known, situation exists because, although tissue stem cells are unique in function from all other tissue cells, they do
Source of liver stem cells identified “We’ve solved a very old problem,” says Roel Nusse, an HHMI investigator at Stanford University who led the research. Asymmetrex says, “Wait a minute! Hold that phone call for at least a moment, please!” The new evidence for homeostatic stem cells located around central veins in the liver does
Stem Cell Therapy for Pets June 18, 2015 Asymmetrex calls for the scientific method to understand pet “stem cell” therapies. “Once, some farmers thought that shed horsehairs spontaneously generated living worms, until the scientific method uncovered associated Gordian worms as the responsible organisms. In contrast, when extracts of foxglove plants were found to help dropsy
Fetal stem cells and the sports heroes they revitalized – A SPECIAL REPORT BY USA TODAY SPORTS REVEALS HOW A STEM-CELL MANUFACTURER AVERTED CONTROVERSY IN THE TREATMENTS OF GORDIE HOWE AND JOHN BRODIE. May 22, 2015 – Original Article: Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY Sports “In the new business of stem cell medicine, legal and ethical remain
Using stem cells to grow new hair – Researchers have used human pluripotent stem cells to generate new hair. The study represents the first step toward the development of a cell-based treatment for people with hair loss. In the United States alone, more than 40 million men and 21 million women are affected by hair
Tiny Hair Follicle Holds Big Clues about Stem Cells – Inside the microscopic world of the mouse hair follicle, Yale Cancer Center researchers have discovered big clues about how stem cells regenerate and die. These findings, reported in the journal Nature, could lead to a better understanding of how the stem cell pool is maintained or