Patients suffering from Parkinson's disease may soon benefit from a powerful treatment option: stem-cell transplants. In a pair of small studies designed primarily to test safety, two teams of ...

When someone has a stroke - a leading worldwide cause of death and disability - time is of the essence. Almost nine out of 10 cases are ischemic strokes, caused by restricted blood flow in the brain, ...

Dr. Matthew Matasar discusses why stem cell transplant is still a standard, life-saving option in blood cancers and how CAR-T ...

The brain's mechanisms for repairing injuries caused by trauma or degenerative diseases are not yet known in detail.

A paradigm shift in the way we treat spinal injuries is now in sight, with the world's first regenerative cell therapy being granted approval for a registrational Phase I clinical trial. It's a ...

More than 4 million people worldwide have end-stage kidney disease that requires hemodialysis, a treatment in which a machine filters waste from the blood. Hemodialysis is a precursor to kidney ...

In the first clinical study of its kind, researchers at Tokyo’s Keio University have developed a stem cell treatment that they say allowed a paralyzed man to stand on his own again following a spinal ...

Samuel Whittle is supported by an Australia and New Zealand Musculoskeletal (ANZMUSC) Clinical Trial Network Practitioner Fellowship and by a grant from The Hospital Research Foundation Group. Dr ...

Two distinct stem cell lineages that drive tooth root and alveolar bone formation have been identified by researchers from Science Tokyo. Using genetically modified mice and lineage-tracing techniques ...

The team used human stem cells to create embryo-like structures dubbed “hematoids” that mirror some features of early human ...