Gene and Cell Therapy – News and Features

Collaboration to focus on evaluating potential of BioE's cord blood stem cell to differentiate into insulin-producing pancreatic cells absent in Type 1 diabetes patients.

Johns Hopkins launches institute to apply emerging science to medical problems.

Gold nanoparticles have shown promise for cancer therapy.

PLX-1 intended as an innovative stem cell solution for improved engraftment during bone marrow transplantation.

Of the total, $2 million will be used to establish a center for the development of stem cell therapies for human diseases.

University of Minnesota researchers differentiate Multi-Lineage Progenitor Cell into type II alveolar cells.

Study finds human stem cells derived from bone marrow are predisposed to develop into a variety of nerve cell types.

Cells may be useful in therapies for ALS, Parkinson's, Multiple Sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Cardiac MRI tests confirm a 60% increase in patient’s heart function after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery with adult stem cell therapy.

Investigators found that approximately 10 percent of the transplanted cells had incorporated into the damaged regions of the kidney glomeruli in the knockout mouse.