First Mouse With Two Male Parents to Reach Adulthood Jan. 28, 2025 — A team of stem cell scientists have successfully used embryonic stem cell engineering to create a bi-paternal mouse -- a ...

DIABETES, Parkinson's disease, degenerative disc disease, macular degeneration, stroke — what do these have in common? Besides being relatively debilitating conditions, all of these have been treated ...

When we developed the ability to convert various cells into a stem cell, it held the promise of an entirely new type of therapy. Rather than getting the body to try to fix itself with its cells or ...

Figure 1. Schematic representation of the central events of stem cell therapy. From left to right: 1) potential source of stem cells; 2) administration procedure; 3) expected effects of stem cell ...

In MS, immune system cells mistakenly attack myelin. With stem cell treatment, doctors use chemotherapy to destroy these existing immune cells. Then, they introduce the new stem cells, which are ...

For years, the Food and Drug Administration has taken up arms against clinics hawking unproven and ineffective stem cell treatments to desperate patients looking for cures of intractable diseases ...

Stem cell therapies are a type of cell therapy in which the cells used are either stem cells (as in the case of bone marrow transplantation) or are derived from stem cells, as is this case with ...

They can also often take tissue cells from a patient and turn them back into un-differentiated stem cells. Using stem cells for therapy makes the most sense, where healthy tissues are destroyed or ...

For the clinics, however, they’re money-makers, with fees of $9,000 or more per treatment ... a chilling effect on FDA activity in the stem cell clinic space,” Paul S. Knoepfler, a UC Davis ...

which use the patient’s stem cells in the treatment, and allogeneic therapies, which are not personalized for a single patient. “We’ve seen big breakthroughs where these treatments have ...