Technique Prevents Transplant Rejection in the Lab, a Major Advance for Stem Cell Therapies UC San Francisco scientists have used the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system to create the... Read more
A clinical trial has begun which will use stem cell transplants to grow a new immune system for people with untreatable Crohn’s disease – a painful and chronic intestinal disease w... Read more
Adding irradiation before transplant improves long-term results and should change practice Scleroderma with internal organ involvement is a debilitating and lethal autoimmune disor... Read more
Electric fields can be used to guide neural stem cells transplanted into the brain toward a specific location. The research, published July 11 in the journal Stem Cell Reports, ope... Read more
via Glaucoma Research Foundation Buck scientists restore long-term vision in blind mice, making a case for addressing the immune system’s role in rejecting transplanted cells Stem... Read more
Scientists have demonstrated a method for generating several key types of eye tissue from human stem cells in a way that mirrors whole eye development. When transplanted to an anim... Read more
Physicians at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System have cured 12 adult patients of sickle cell disease using a unique procedure for stem cell transplant... Read more