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Cerebral palsy (CP) is a physical disability that affects movement and posture. It is a permanent life-long condition, where the brain injury is stable, but co-occurring orthopedic conditions can worsen over time. It is due to damage to the developing brain either...

A Sydney toddler whose umbilical cord blood was stored to help treat her sister's Type 1 diabetes has had it reinfused after showing signs of the disease herself. Earlier this year Lucy Hinchion, aged 20 months, became the youngest child in the world to receive her...

The War on Parkinson's: Stem Cells Successfully Injected into Patient's Brain A team of Australian researchers have successfully performed a procedure injecting stem cells into the brain of a Parkinson's Disease patient. The researchers are hopeful that this could be...

Doctors in Seattle call it a very big deal: a study out this week that shows increased benefits of umbilical cord blood transplants among patients with leukemia. The study, led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance...

Scientists have discovered a new way to replicate the regenerative power of stem cells in the lab, which could lead to powerful treatments for injuries and diseases. In a new paper published in the journal ACS Nano, Dr. Catherine Berry and Professor Matthew Dalby from...

Scientists grow tiny pea-sized 'human lungs' in the laboratory giving hope to thousands of patients with fatal conditions Tiny 'human lungs' have been grown in a laboratory which could revolutionise understanding of fatal diseases. The breakthrough was made using...

Phase 3 Clinical Trial using haematopoietic stem cells to treat patients with beta-thalassemia opens. Bluebird Bio, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech, last week opened its enrolment of a Phase 3 trial of its LentiGlobin gene therapy. BlueBird's Lentiglobin gene...

At Northwestern Hospital in Chicago, Dr. Richard Burt has been doing what once seemed impossible. He’s not just treating, but apparently curing debilitating diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS), through stem cell transplants. Much like rebooting a computer, the...

Rather than using the limited available amount of a patient's skin to help heal a burn, the cells from the umbilical cord lining can provide an unlimited reserve of unprogrammed cells to create new skin and bone, and even other body parts, such as the cornea in the...

Umbilical Cord Stem Cells from his brother Kairav may help 5 year old brain damaged Jay. A five-year-old could soon be able to hug his mother for the first time when he becomes one of the first children in the world to undergo a pioneering stem cell treatment. Jay...