Category Archives: Stem Cell Research

Every year at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, members of the FFA gather to compete in the AgriScience Fair. The contest requires that students conduct research and present their findings in ways that help them prepare for their future and develop research skills. Many students use the program as a part of their Supervised Agricultural Experience, a crucial part of agricultural education that goes along with classroom instruction and FFA involvement. In past years, members of the Conrad Weiser FFA Chapter have excelled in this event at state and national levels, with students placing first, second or third in the nation in a variety of divisions. Each year brings new students and new opportunities to the AgriScience Fair, which introduced a new division structure for the 2017 competition. This year, more than 150 students from around the state competed in the AgriScience Fair. Of these, 45 were from the Conrad Weiser FFA, many of them freshmen and first-time competitors. Students from the Conrad Weiser FFA Chapter were honored for their research in categories ranging from food systems to social systems to environmental and natural resource systems, many of them placing first. Among those placing first was Adam Zappacosta, a freshman who … Continue reading →

Quartz The clone armies never happened, but Dolly the sheep still changed the world Quartz Dolly's real legacy is the research she inspired in nuclear reprogrammed cells, which will save more lives than cloned organ donors ever could. Japanese stem cell biologist Shinya Yamanaka was among those inspired by Dolly's birth. With living, woolly ... 20 Years After Dolly the Sheep, What Have We Learned About Cloning?Live Science Dolly the sheep: 20yrs on, what's the state of play in cloning?RT 20 Years After Dolly, the Cloned SheepU.S. News & World Report Aljazeera.com -Pew Research Center -Mirror.co.uk all 15 news articles » Follow this link: The clone armies never happened, but Dolly the sheep still changed the world - Quartz … Continue reading →

New research provides further evidence of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation as an effective treatment for multiple sclerosis, after finding the procedure halted disease progression for 5 years in almost half of patients. Lead study author Dr. Paolo Muraro, of the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London in the United Kingdom, and colleagues recently reported their findings in JAMA Neurology. The results come just a fortnight after another study revealed the success of a similar treatment in a small group of patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). However, Dr. Muraro and team warn that further trials are needed to determine the efficacy and safety of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT), after a small number of patients died within 100 days of treatment. In AHSCT, a patient's own stem cells are harvested. The patient is then subject to high-dose chemotherapy to eliminate any diseased cells. Next, the harvested stem cells are returned to the patient's bloodstream, with the aim of restarting normal blood cell production. In simple terms, AHSCT "resets" the immune system. "We previously knew this treatment reboots or resets the immune system - and that it carried risks - but we didn't know how long the benefits … Continue reading →

TEMPE, Ariz. On the day he hoped would save his elbow, Garrett Richards laid face down on a table with his back exposed. A doctor guided a needle into the iliac crest of his pelvic bone and began to extract bone marrow. Richards was wide awake, the blessing of local anesthesia saving him from physical pain but not the anxiety that crept into his head: Is this really going to work? Within a few minutes, the harvested marrow was hurried to a centrifuge, spun to separate the good stuff, mixed into a slurry of platelet-rich plasma and readied to inject into Richards damaged right elbow. Rather than the standard tear across his ulnar collateral ligament, Richards ran lengthwise along the middle of his UCL, a rare manifestation of an increasingly commonplace injury that almost always ends with Tommy John surgery. Not in this case. While he could have chosen that route, he wanted to explore first the efficacy of the aforementioned good stuff: stem cells. Today, Garrett Richards is darting 98-mph fastballs again. I feel as good as I ever have throwing a baseball, he said Monday from Tempe Diablo Stadium, where the Los Angeles Angels, perhaps the most Tommy … Continue reading →

Stem cell research holds untold potential towards new cures and treatments for numerous diseases that have no remedies today. However, scientific pursuits will continue to suffer from high levels of irreproducible research without a systemic change to the industry. San Diego, CA (PRWEB) February 21, 2017 The medical potential of stem cells is both extensive and astounding, and there are exciting prospects for their use, in multiple areas of medicine, due to their differentiating characteristics. Stem cells are unique as the have the potential to renew themselves through cellular division, and they have the ability to be induced to become tissue or organic-specific cells with special functions. Stem cell therapy in the form of bone marrow transplantation has already been utilised for decades, however research is now heavily focussed on alternative ways in which stem cells can be utilized, and they are now being consideration for applications including; in combination with gene therapy, for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, to remove unwanted cancer cells, and for use on scaffolds, with the capability of forming three-dimensional structures. Although the possibilities within regenerative medicine are endless; the associated challenges are still a hindering factor. The properties of stem cells are still incompletely … Continue reading →

Stem cells collected from fat may have use in anti-aging treatments Science Daily Adult stem cells collected directly from human fat are more stable than other cells -- such as fibroblasts from the skin -- and have the potential for use in anti-aging treatments, according to researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the ... and more » Read more here: Stem cells collected from fat may have use in anti-aging treatments - Science Daily … Continue reading →

VAIL Hallways at the world-famous Steadman Clinic are lined with framed, autographed jerseys of star athletes who have had surgery here, including John Elway, Mario Lemieux and Alex Rodriguez. The clinic and its associated Steadman Philippon Research Institute (SPRI) attract world-class talent from all fields including U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr., who joined the institutes board after he was a patient here but perhaps its top recruit was a renowned scientist researching ways to help injuries heal faster and slow down the way our bodies age. Were trying to develop the iPhone 9 of medicine, said Dr. Johnny Huard, chief scientific officer and director of the institutes Center for Regenerative Sports Medicine. Your iPhone 6 and 7 are great, its doing everything you want, but youre looking on the web at what the iPhone 8s going to do. We want to have surgeons here doing surgery on our best football, hockey, basketball players, and instead of losing a year to heal, can we heal them in six months? Three months? Would that be great? Joe Amon, The Denver Post The field is called biologics, and its transforming orthopedics by using cells that heal produced in the patients body in concentrated … Continue reading →

February 16, 2017 Credit: National Research Council of Italy An International Reserach Team coordinated by Igb-Cnr has discovered a key role of vitamins and amino acids in pluripotent stem cells. The research is published in Stem Cell Reports, and may provide new insights in cancer biology and regenerative medicine Vitamins and amino acids play a key role in the regulation of epigenetic modifications involved in the progression of diseases such as cancer. The research may have future implications in cancer biology. The study was published in Stem Cell Reports. "We found that two metabolites, vitamin C and the amino acid L-Proline, are important players in the control of stem cell behaviour. This study shows that pluripotent embryonic stem cells present in the earliest phases of development are pushed toward a more immature 'naive' state by vitamin C, while they are forced to acquire a 'primed' state in the presence of L-Proline. Thus, vitamin C and L-Proline exert opposite effects on embryonic stem cells, and this correlates with their ability to modify DNA (DNA methylation) without altering the sequence, but instead, the regulation of gene expression," explained researcher Gabriella Minchiotti. Stem cells possess the unique ability to self-renew and differentiate into … Continue reading →

From left are Dr. Oz, researcher Sally Temple, patient Patricia Holman, television personality Montel Williams and Dr. Elisabeth Leamy. (Courtesy Sony Pictures Television) From left are Dr. Oz, researcher Sally Temple, patient Patricia Holman, television personality Montel Williams and Dr. Elisabeth Leamy. (Courtesy Sony Pictures Television) From left are Dr. Oz, researchers Sally Temple, patient Patricia Holman, Dr. Elisabeth Leamy and television personality Montel Williams. (Courtesy Sony Pictures Television) From left are Dr. Oz, researchers Sally Temple, patient Patricia Holman, Dr. Elisabeth Leamy and television personality Montel Williams. (Courtesy Sony Pictures Television) Dr. Oz with Sally Temple, scientific director and co-founder of the Neural Stem Cell Institute. (Courtesy Sony Pictures Television) Dr. Oz with Sally Temple, scientific director and co-founder of the Neural Stem Cell Institute. (Courtesy Sony Pictures Television) Local stem cell researcher to appear on Dr. Oz today Sally Temple has a plea for people considering stem cell therapy to cope with a chronic illness or life-threatening disease: Don't. Not yet. Temple, co-founder of the Neural Stem Cell Institute in Rensselaer and president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, has spent her career studying stem cells. Her pre-taped appearance on "The Dr. Oz Show" airs Tuesday, … Continue reading →

. KUWAIT: Sheikha Salwa Al-Sabah Center for Stem Cell and Umbilical Cord will pave the way forward to develop services and researches in the healthcare sector, said Kuwait Holding Projects Company (KIPCO) Yesterday. The center will help advance research within the stem cell and umbilical cord domains and will aid in developing a strong partnership between the public and private sectors within health services, KIPCO Vice Chairman Faisal Hamad Al-Ayyar said in a statement. Hopefully, this facility will make it easy for the public to access necessary healthcare in Kuwait, said Ayyar who affirmed stem cell and umbilical cord researches will be crucial to the treatment of various Intractable diseases. According to the company, KIPCO and its Group companies will hand over the Sheikha Salwa Sabah Al-Ahmad Stem Cell and Umbilical Cord Center in mid-September 2017, with 70 per cent of the construction of the building now complete. The center, financed through a KD seven million donation made to the Ministry of Health by Masharee Al-Khair Charity Organization on behalf of KIPCO Group, is the Gulf regions first-ever center to be dedicated to stem cell research and the storage of umbilical cords. The Sheikha Salwa Sabah Al Ahmad Stem Cell … Continue reading →