Category Archives: Cell Medicine

This video—presented by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health—shows how Tiffany, a mother and student, has coped with having sickle cell disease. Born with the most severe form of sickle cell disease, sickle cell anemia, Tiffany has lived with the symptoms and complications of this disease her entire life Follow this link: Living With and Managing Sickle Cell Disease … Continue reading →

This video is of an actual visit with Olympic Medalist, Jill Kintner in the office of Stephen R. Gunter, DC (Back Care Plus). Originally posted here: Chiropractic Sports Medicine … Continue reading →

http://www.ted.com Pioneering surgeon Susan Lim performed the first liver transplant in Asia. But a moral concern with transplants (where do donor livers come from ...) led her to look further, and to ask Could we be transplanting cells, not whole organs? Read this article: Susan Lim: Transplant cells, not organs … Continue reading →

Millie Jimenez discusses her twin boys' improvements after they both underwent stem cell therapy for autism at the Stem Cell Institute in Panama City, Panama. One of the boys, who was non-verbal prior to treatment is now speaking in English and Spanish More: Stem Cell Treatment for Autism: Community Outreach Miami, Florida - May 2011 … Continue reading →

Researchers at Penn's Abramson Cancer Center have molecularly engineered T-cells from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and achieved an exceptional, unprecedented antitumor response. In the pilot study of three patients, two achieved complete remission and the third experienced remarkable antitumor response, which was impossible with previously available treatments. See original here: Genetically Modified T Cells Obliterate Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Tumors … Continue reading →

(June 1, 2010) Renee Reijo Pera, Ph.D., and Professor Michael Longaker discuss the future of regenerative medicine and the promise that stem cell research holds for this field. During the final quarter of the Stanford Mini Med School, some of the most timely and important topics in contemporary medicine and the biosciences are addressed. Stanford Mini Med School is a series arranged and directed by Stanford's School of Medicine and presented by the Stanford Continuing Studies program. See original here: Regenerative Medicine and Applications of Stem Cell Research … Continue reading →

Huntington's disease is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder that typically strikes in a person's thirties and leads to death about 10 to 15 years later. No effective therapy exists for the disease. Jan Nolta, director of the UC Davis Stem Cell Program and Institute for Regenerative Cures, has a CIRM Early Translational Award to develop stem cell-based therapies for Huntington's disease. Read more from the original source: Stem Cell Research: Huntington's Disease … Continue reading →

Huntington's disease is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder that typically strikes in a person's thirties and leads to death about 10 to 15 years later. No effective therapy exists for the disease. Jan Nolta, director of the UC Davis Stem Cell Program and Institute for Regenerative Cures, has a CIRM Early Translational Award to develop stem cell-based therapies for Huntington's disease. Read more from the original source: Stem Cell Research: Huntington's Disease … Continue reading →

Dr. Edward Morrisey at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Medicine reports on a new way to make induced pluripotent stem cells with miRNA-based reprogramming via the miR302/367 cluster. More here: A New Way to Make Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells … Continue reading →

Medical breakthrough shows the promise of stem cell medicine. Read the original: Doctors Use Stem Cells to Grow New Windpipes … Continue reading →