Stem Cell therapy

May 14, 2019

FDA gives green signal to HealthPNX Zebra Medical Vision- an Israel-based developer recently has received FDA’s approval to use Artificial Intelligence to scan and analyze chest X-rays. It will help identify pneumothorax which is the buildup of air inside the pleural cavity, caused by injury either to the lung o...

Mar 26, 2019

Laminin might help to regenerate heart muscles Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, have been studying the self-regeneration process of the heart. After an injury, the self- regeneration property of the heart has been limited. But now, Scientists turned to Stem Cell therapy. They are prepping stem ...

Mar 20, 2019

The Cornea- the outermost layer in the human eye, plays an important role in regulating the amount of light entering into the eye. It also protects the eye from germs, dust, and other harmful matter. Although this important part of the human body has a countless number of ways to get damaged. Corneal Abrasions, Dry...

Feb 25, 2019

Stem Cells therapies and CRISPR gene-editing are not new. Having able to grow the desired cells and manipulate the genome system have proved to be the most important breakthrough so far. We all are aware of the fact that Embryos possess the potential to produce pluripotent cells that researchers experiment on t...

Oct 23, 2017

Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) is a rare lysosomal storage disease which is genetic, degenerative, neurometabolic in nature. It is generally inherited from carrier parents and at present doesn’t have any cure. Patients suffering from MLD are deficient in the arylsulfatase-A enzyme, which is responsible for break...

Sep 13, 2017

It has been more than 10 years that a scandal related to stem cell research rocked South Korea, leading to a ban on human embryo research, but now scientists are gearing up for fighting the decade strict regulations related to this research, which they classify as a ban. The nation’s bioethics committee, on August 3...

Sep 19, 2016

It is a well-known fact that where there is stem cell transplantation, there is Graft vs Host Disease (GVHD). The concept arose 2 decades ago and is not rare- it is a common complication of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) that occurs when the donated (graft) cells are rejected, and attack t...

Apr 17, 2015

Big Pharma Guiding the Stem Cells Future Stem cells (SCs) have been an excitement area of medical research since 1800s. In the mid 1800s it was discovered that cells were basically the building blocks of life and that some cells had the ability to produce other cells and in 1900 scientists had discovered that some...