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Original Source: Mesoblast: Intervertebral Disc Repair Phase 2 Trial Update
Rapid Patient Accrual, Enrolment Reaches Half Way Mark Positive Preclinical Study Results Published in Premier Neurosurgical Journal Melbourne, Australia; 17 April 2012: Global regenerative medicine company Mesoblast Limited (ASX:MSB) today announced that its Phase 2 clinical trial investigating the use of allogeneic, or off-the-shelf, Mesenchymal Precursor Cells (MPCs) for non-surgical restoration of degenerated intervertebral discs and treatment of low back pain has enrolled 50% of the total study...
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Stem cells can be found in all multicellular organisms and are characterized by the ability to renew themselves through mitotic cell division and differentiate into a diverse range of specialized ce...
Psoriasis is a common skin condition affecting 2-3% of the population of the United Kingdom, where the skins replacement process is sped taking 2-6 days instead of the usual 21 - 28 days for the rep...
The Notch signaling pathway has been found to play central roles in humans in stem cell maintenance, cell fate decisions, and in cancer as well. Notch family members are being revealed as oncogenes...
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs)
Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) consist of a diverse group of industrial chemicals and pharmacological agents. Evidence is accumulating that environmental chemicals (ECs) including endo...
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Replacement Teeth Grown From Gum Cells
Growing new teeth may someday be a viable alternative to dentures. A new study has successfully created lab-grown teeth by combining human gum cells with stem cells from embryonic mice. The mouse ste...
Stem Cells to Relieve Low Back Pain?
By Brenda Goodman HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, April 12 (HealthDay News) -- Medical researchers are trying a new treatment for low back pain. Their hope is that harvesting and then re-in...
Stem cells can become anything - but not without this protein
(University of Michigan Health System) In a finding that could be important to the use of all kinds of stem cells in treating disease, scientists have discovered the crucial role of a protein called M...
Researchers report promising results from using adult stem cells from bone marrow in mice to help create tissue cells of other organs, such as the heart, brain and pancreas -- a scientific step they h...
Stem cells are cells found in all multicellular organisms, that can divide and differentiate into diverse specialized cell types and can self-renew to produce more stem cells. In mammals, there are tw...
World Stem Cells, LLC. facilitates Stem Cell Treatments In Cancun at World Stem Cells Clinic
Lutz, Florida (PRWEB) February 05, 2013 World Stem Cells, LLC. contract laboratory and clinic World Stem Cells Clinic a new adult stem cell laboratory being built in Cancun, Mexico to support Stem...
New way to weed out problem stem cells, making therapy safer
Mayo Clinic researchers have found a way to detect and eliminate potentially troublemaking stem cells to make stem cell therapy safer. Induced Pluripotent Stem cells, also known as iPS cells, are bioe...
Using induced pluripotent stem cells, scientists can better study human disease
(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) Rudolf Jaenisch of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology will speak at EB 2013 on the to...
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Mouse Germ Line Stem Cells Undergo Rapid and Stochastic Turnover.
In cycling tissues, adult stem cells may be lost and subsequently replaced to ensure homeostasis. To examine the frequency of stem cell replacement, we analyzed the population dynamics of labeled stem...
Parkinson's disease (PD) involves the loss of dopamine (DA) neurons, making it the most expected neurodegenerative disease to be treated by cell replacement therapy. Stem cells are a promising source...
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a severe deliberating neurological disease caused by progressive degenerative death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra of midbrain. While cell replacement stra...
The potential of stem cells for the restoration of auditory function in humans.
Hearing loss is one of the most common disabilities, affecting approximately 10% of the population. Hair cells and spiral ganglion neurons are usually damaged in most cases of hearing loss. Currently,...
IL-17 is expressed in a number of tissues including the intervertebral disc, where it exerts strong inflammatory properties. We evaluated IL-17 using immunolocalization in herniated and non-herniated...
