stem cell therapies

Her passion came from her son’s struggle with type 1 diabetes and the inability to find new treatments.

Umbilical cord blood may be a good alternative to bone marrow transplants for treating HIV in patients with HIV and cancer.

The FDA pauses the research program on a lentivirus-based treatment for a rare neurological condition after a patient developed a bone marrow disorder that could presage leukemia.

Researchers insert functioning cone photoreceptors into the retinas of mice with advanced eye disease, improving their vision.

The state will take on additional debt to finance CIRM, which will now continue to fund stem cell research, training, and clinical trials.

If approved, Proposition 14 would authorize the state to sell $5.5 billion in bonds to extend the life of CIRM, which funds stem cell research. The ballot measure has its critics.

As the first clinical data become available on treating coronavirus patients with the cells, scientists are equivocal about the rationale for the intervention.

A study in mice reveals that stem cell transplants, currently in clinical trials, may not actually require the cells.

A new tool helps stem cells integrate with host neural circuitry after implantation in mice.

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has been funding research since it formed in 2004, giving out nearly $3 billion in grants to date.

The cells, derived from induced pluripotent stem cells, are in testing as an immunotherapy for cancer patients with solid tumors.

Age-related macular degeneration patients who received injections of retinal cells derived from donors’ induced pluripotent stem cells have maintained their level of eyesight for a year.

The treatment will be tested in a handful of patients who suffered nerve damage in sports or traffic accidents.

Critics say the misleading term actually refers to a heterogeneous population of cells, including possible tissue-specific progenitor cells and nonstem cells all lumped together.

Stem-cell–derived natural killer cells engineered in a similar way to CAR-T cells may pave the way to “off the shelf” cancer therapies that aren’t patient-specific.

The stem cell–derived transplants were stable for 24 months and led to wide-ranging behavioral improvements in the monkeys.  

Two patients became legally blind after receiving treatments at the facilities.

Small trials using younger donors and elderly recipients hint that mesenchymal stem cell transfers might reduce frailty.