News tagged with marrow stem

Ontario's first cardiac stem cell transplant performed last week

Heart failure is a leading cause of death in Canada. As part of the ongoing IMPACT-CABG clinical trial to treat advanced heart failure, physicians at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre performed the first cardiac stem cell transplant ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

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University of Kentucky offers stroke stem cell trial

The University of Kentucky will be the first site in the state and one of a select few in the entire country participating in the first stages of a groundbreaking study to investigate the effects of MultiStem, a human adult ...

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Towards more effective treatment for multiple myeloma

A new study from SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, shows that MAL3-101, a recently developed inhibitor of the heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70), appears to have potent anti-tumor effects on multiple myeloma, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Bone marrow-derived cells differentiate in the brain through mechanisms of plasticity

Bone marrow-derived stem cells (BMDCs) have been recognized as a source for transplantation because they can contribute to different cell populations in a variety of organs under both normal and pathological conditions. Many ...

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Bone marrow and blood stem cell transplant survival rates equal, when donor is unrelated to patient

Patients who receive a blood stem cell transplant from a donor outside of their family to treat leukemia and other blood diseases are more likely to have graft failure but less likely to experience graft-versus-host disease, ...

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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 ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Researchers develop safe way to repair sickle cell disease genes

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a way to use patients' own cells to potentially cure sickle cell disease and many other disorders caused by mutations in a gene that ...

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created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Microscopic cells race to victory in first World Cell Race at ASCB meeting

A "team" of fast-moving, bone marrow stem cells from a research laboratory in Singapore has run away with the first World Cell Race, finishing first with a cellular speed record of 5.2 microns per minute (or 0.000204 inches ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 03, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Newly discovered heart stem cells make muscle and bone

Researchers have identified a new and relatively abundant pool of stem cells in the heart. The findings in the December issue of Cell Stem Cell, a Cell Press publication, show that these heart cells have the capacity for lo ...

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Recipient's immune system governs stem cell regeneration

A new study in Nature Medicine describes how different types of immune system T-cells alternately discourage and encourage stem cells to regrow bone and tissue, bringing into sharp focus the importance of the transplant recipient's ...

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created Nov 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Phase I trial begins using gene therapy and bone marrow stem cells in the treatment of brain cancer

University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Lentigen Corporation announced today the initiation of a novel Phase I clinical trial of LG631 gene therapy for the protection ...

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created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Results triple researchers' projections with use of adult stem cells for heart failure

Patients suffering from heart failure due to a previous myocardial infarction showed an average of 12 percent improvement one year following an investigative treatment that involved infusing them with their ...

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Delayed stem cell therapy following heart attack is safe but not effective

NIH-funded trial shows that therapy with bone-marrow derived cells does not improve heart function after six months; future clinical benefits still possible.

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Reprogramming stem cells to a more basic form results in more effective transplant, study shows

Chinese stem cell scientists have published new research that improves the survival and effectiveness of transplanted stem cells. The research led by Dr Hsiao Chang Chan, from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, is published ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

3-D long-term bone marrow culture to analyze stromal cell biological function

Stromal cells, as distinct from hematopoietic cells, are an essential component of the bone marrow microenvironment and are necessary for the long-term maintenance of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in vitro. Previous studies ...

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