Ophthalmologist Peter Francis, a former 'rising star' in the medical
research field in the UK, has resigned from Oregon Health and Science
University's Casey Eye Institute, after "applying for two grants on the
basis of fraudulent results from stem cell trials he had not carried out, the US
authorities have ruled." See today's Guardian article.
Showing posts with label Stem cells. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stem cells. Show all posts
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Thursday, 28 May 2009
Some Blind People Could Possibly Be Cured By Stem Cells Grown On Contact Lenses
See Telegraph article about improving the sight of patients with damage to the cornea.
Friday, 24 April 2009
Stem Cells have reversed symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis: small study finds
The Telegraph reports that stem cells from patients' own body fat have reversed the symptoms of multiple sclerosis leaving some patients free from seizures and able to walk better.
Stem cell injections appear to stimulate regrowth of damaged tissue, with improvement continuing for up to a year after treatment.
Stem cell injections appear to stimulate regrowth of damaged tissue, with improvement continuing for up to a year after treatment.
Friday, 22 June 2007
Stem-cell injections may help heart attack victims
Stem-cell trial for heart attack victims - Independent
Extract:
"Heart attack victims are to be injected with stem cells from their own bone marrow in a groundbreaking trial which could improve patient survival rates.
Doctors hope the injections will repair cell scarring caused during heart attacks, giving patients an improved quality of life.
Britain has one of the worst heart attack rates in the world, with someone having a heart attack every two minutes. Heart attacks are responsible for one in four deaths in men and one in six deaths in women.
During a heart attack, cells in part of the heart die, leaving areas of scarring. The scarred areas are less effective at pumping blood, which can lead to patients suffering heart failure."
The best way to protect yourself from having a heart attack is to avoid eating salt and salty food. This would benefit your health in many other ways too. See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/conditions.html
Lose weight by eating less salt! - Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
See my website http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/
Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection
(The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)
Extract:
"Heart attack victims are to be injected with stem cells from their own bone marrow in a groundbreaking trial which could improve patient survival rates.
Doctors hope the injections will repair cell scarring caused during heart attacks, giving patients an improved quality of life.
Britain has one of the worst heart attack rates in the world, with someone having a heart attack every two minutes. Heart attacks are responsible for one in four deaths in men and one in six deaths in women.
During a heart attack, cells in part of the heart die, leaving areas of scarring. The scarred areas are less effective at pumping blood, which can lead to patients suffering heart failure."
The best way to protect yourself from having a heart attack is to avoid eating salt and salty food. This would benefit your health in many other ways too. See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/conditions.html
Lose weight by eating less salt! - Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
See my website http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/
Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection
(The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)
Thursday, 7 June 2007
Stem cells have been created from ordinary skin cells...
Stem cell breakthrough paves way for tailor-made new treatments - Guardian
Extract:
"Stem cells capable of making any tissue in the body have been created from ordinary skin cells, a world first that paves the way for revolutionary new treatments tailored to individual patients.
The pioneering research overcomes one of the most pressing ethical issues faced by stem cell scientists today - that the most promising variety of stem cells known can be obtained only from embryos, which are cannibalised when the cells are collected.
Researchers claim the new technique can produce stem cells without harming embryos. In a series of papers published today, they describe experiments in which skin cells were plucked from adult mice and "reprogrammed", turning them into cells that are indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells, the only kind thought to be able to grow into all of the body's tissue types.
The breakthrough is expected to overcome a major hurdle that has severely hampered progress in stem cell research. For any stem cell treatment to be useful, it has to work without causing an immune reaction in patients. This means scientists must either create enormous stockpiles of different stem cells, which can then be matched to patients, much as organs are before transplant operations. Or, scientists have to perfect a technique called therapeutic cloning, in which a cell taken from a patient is cloned to produce stem cells that are an exact genetic match. Neither is simple.
The research points to a new way around the problem, suggesting it may be possible to take any cell from a patient and convert into an embryonic stem cell. This could then be used to grow batches of other tissues for future operations, such as neurons and heart cells.
Two teams, one lead by Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University and the other by Rudolf Jaenisch at the Whitehead Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced details of their research in the journal Nature today.
Both groups took skin cells from adult mice and injected them with a harmless virus that was genetically modified to carry four carefully selected genes, known as Oct4, Sox2, c-Myc and Klf4. Together the genes rewound the clock on the adult cells, returning them to a youthful state in which they could then grow into any other cell type."
Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
See my website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk
(The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)
Extract:
"Stem cells capable of making any tissue in the body have been created from ordinary skin cells, a world first that paves the way for revolutionary new treatments tailored to individual patients.
The pioneering research overcomes one of the most pressing ethical issues faced by stem cell scientists today - that the most promising variety of stem cells known can be obtained only from embryos, which are cannibalised when the cells are collected.
Researchers claim the new technique can produce stem cells without harming embryos. In a series of papers published today, they describe experiments in which skin cells were plucked from adult mice and "reprogrammed", turning them into cells that are indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells, the only kind thought to be able to grow into all of the body's tissue types.
The breakthrough is expected to overcome a major hurdle that has severely hampered progress in stem cell research. For any stem cell treatment to be useful, it has to work without causing an immune reaction in patients. This means scientists must either create enormous stockpiles of different stem cells, which can then be matched to patients, much as organs are before transplant operations. Or, scientists have to perfect a technique called therapeutic cloning, in which a cell taken from a patient is cloned to produce stem cells that are an exact genetic match. Neither is simple.
The research points to a new way around the problem, suggesting it may be possible to take any cell from a patient and convert into an embryonic stem cell. This could then be used to grow batches of other tissues for future operations, such as neurons and heart cells.
Two teams, one lead by Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University and the other by Rudolf Jaenisch at the Whitehead Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced details of their research in the journal Nature today.
Both groups took skin cells from adult mice and injected them with a harmless virus that was genetically modified to carry four carefully selected genes, known as Oct4, Sox2, c-Myc and Klf4. Together the genes rewound the clock on the adult cells, returning them to a youthful state in which they could then grow into any other cell type."
Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
See my website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk
(The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Stem cell treatment has helped liver cancer patients in Germany.
Stem cell treatment saves liver cancer patients - Telegraph
Extract:
"Patients treated for advanced liver cancer have grown new liver cells after being injected with stem cells taken from their hips.
Six out of eight patients are still alive two years later with fully functioning livers. The treatment, given in Germany, brings hope for liver patients.
Surgeons at the University of Dusseldorf took bone marrow stem cells from the hips of patients with advanced liver cancer and injected then into the healthy parts of the liver. "
Extract:
"Patients treated for advanced liver cancer have grown new liver cells after being injected with stem cells taken from their hips.
Six out of eight patients are still alive two years later with fully functioning livers. The treatment, given in Germany, brings hope for liver patients.
Surgeons at the University of Dusseldorf took bone marrow stem cells from the hips of patients with advanced liver cancer and injected then into the healthy parts of the liver. "
Tuesday, 23 January 2007
"Stem cell hope to defeat diabetes" and "Maternal cells 'generate insulin'"
Stem cell hope to defeat diabetes
Extract:
"Scientists have discovered that stem cells are passed from mothers to unborn children with type 1 diabetes and may help repair the damage caused by immune attacks on insulin-producing cells thought responsible for the development of the disease."
and Maternal cells 'generate insulin'
A cost-free, healthy way to lower the risk of type 2 diabetes in children is to ensure that young children eat food low in salt/sodium. See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/children.html and http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/conditions.html
Extract:
"Scientists have discovered that stem cells are passed from mothers to unborn children with type 1 diabetes and may help repair the damage caused by immune attacks on insulin-producing cells thought responsible for the development of the disease."
and Maternal cells 'generate insulin'
A cost-free, healthy way to lower the risk of type 2 diabetes in children is to ensure that young children eat food low in salt/sodium. See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/children.html and http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/conditions.html
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