News tagged with cord blood
US begins stem cell trial for hearing loss
US researchers have begun a groundbreaking trial to test the potential of umbilical cord blood transplants, a kind of stem cell therapy, to treat and possibly reverse hearing loss in infants.
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Researchers find additional benefits of cord blood cells in mice modeling ALS
Repeated, low-dose injections of mononuclear cells derived from human umbilical cord blood (MNC hUCB, tradename: U-CORD-CELL) have been found effective in protecting motor neuron cells, delaying disease progression and increasing ...
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Imaging live mouse spinal cord will aid trauma therapy
(Medical Xpress) -- To study spinal cord injuries, researchers have had to conduct exploratory surgeries on mice to determine how nerves and other cells respond after trauma. But these approaches have only ...
Jan 25, 2012 |
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How immune cells move against invaders
UCSF scientists have discovered the unexpected way in which a key cell of the immune system prepares for battle. The finding, they said, offers insight into the processes that take place within these cells and could lead ...
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Stem cell therapy reverses diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is caused by the body's own immune system attacking its pancreatic islet beta cells and requires daily injections of insulin to regulate the patient's blood glucose levels. A new method described in BioMed ...
Jan 10, 2012 |
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New device for rapid, mobile detection of brain injury
When accidents that involve traumatic brain injuries occur, a speedy diagnosis followed by the proper treatment can mean the difference between life and death. A research team, led by Jason D. Riley in the Section on Analytical ...
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Researchers say therapy improves stem cell engraftment in umbilical cord blood transplant recipients
A therapy involving a natural compound may improve the ability of stem cells from umbilical cord blood to engraft in patients receiving a stem cell transplant for cancer or other diseases, a phase I clinical trial led by ...
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Study points to novel way to improve outcomes from umbilical cord blood transplants
A new method to boost the number of immune cells in umbilical cord blood prior to cord blood transplants for cancer patients appears to lead to a quicker rebuilding of a new immune system in the patient's body than with a ...
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Study finds clue to birth defects in babies of mothers with diabetes
In a paper published today in Diabetologia, a team at Joslin Diabetes Center, headed by Mary R. Loeken, PhD, has identified the enzyme AMP kinase (AMPK) as key to the molecular mechanism that significantly increases the ri ...
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Transplant survival could be improved by altering present criteria for matching donors, recipients
Selecting better matched recipients and donors than is currently required for umbilical-cord blood transplantation could substantially reduce transplant-related deaths. The findings, published Online First in the Lancet On ...
Oct 06, 2011 |
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Unexpected cell repairs injured spinal cord
Lesions to the brain or spinal cord rarely heal fully, which leads to permanent functional impairment. After injury to the central nervous system (CNS), neurons are lost and largely replaced by a scar often referred to as ...
Jul 07, 2011 |
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Half-matched transplants widen pool of donors for leukemia and lymphoma
Identifying a suitable donor for leukemia and lymphoma patients who need bone marrow transplants may be far easier now that results of two clinical trials show transplant results with half-matched bone marrow or umbilical ...
Jul 07, 2011 |
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Advances in delivery of therapeutic genes to treat brain tumors
Novel tools and methods for delivering therapeutic genes to cells in the central nervous system hold great promise for the development of new treatments to combat incurable neurologic diseases. Five of the ...
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Device could improve harvest of stem cells from umbilical cord blood
Johns Hopkins graduate students have invented a system to significantly boost the number of stem cells collected from a newborn's umbilical cord and placenta, so that many more patients with leukemia, lymphoma ...
Jun 20, 2011 |
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Study finds cryopreserved endothelial progenitor cells phenotypically identical to non-frozen
A study published in the current issue of Cell Transplantation has demonstrated for the first time that endothelial cells derived from cryopreserved human umbilical cord blood cells are phenotypically, as well as structurally and fu ...
May 11, 2011 |
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