The first ever clinical trial for stem cell based voice box transplants will began soon in the United Kingdom. The trial is supported by Medical Research Council...
Biomedical researchers have got a permission to conduct an innovative clinical trial to determine if autologous cord blood stem cells could help treat autism. The trail was announced by Dr. Michael Chez, director of pediatric neurology at Sutter Neuroscience Institute in California. Dr. Chez got the idea to “treat” autism with cord blood stem cells when he observed the cells make a big difference for a little boy with cerebral palsy...
A groundbreaking clinical trial using autologous cord blood stem cells began in September 2012 in the US. The trial is dedicated to develop a new therapeutic procedure in the treatment of children suffering arterial ischemic stroke. The aim of the study is to determine if cord blood stem cells infusion will change physiologic response and anatomic findings in brain in children with perinatal arterial ischemic stroke...
If you meet schoolboy Andrew he is cheerful, carefree and likes to run around with his friends. No one would guess that only a few years ago he was fighting for his life with a severe diagnosis. It was his own cord blood that helped him return to his family and friends.
Marie, now a student, was not always so healthy. She was born with a life threatening red blood cells defect, known as Blackfan-Diamond anaemia. This disease is treatable only by haematopoietic stem cells transplantation. When her little brother was born experts in the field of cord blood banking recommended to her parents to have his cord blood collected so it could be used to treat her.