cancer – Stem Cell Institute

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration held public hearings for two days this week to allow for public commenting on proposed guidance relating to the regulation of human cells, tissues or tissue-...

https://www.cellmedicine.com/fda-poised-to-outlaw-breast-reconstruction-for-cancer-survivors-using-their-own-fat-tissue/

Nina Mikirova, Neil Riordan, Joseph Casciari Med Sci Monit 2016; 22:14-25 DOI: 10.12659/MSM.895368 BACKGROUND: Cytokines play an important role in tumor angiogenesis and inflammation. There is ev...

https://www.cellmedicine.com/modulation-of-cytokines-in-cancer-patients-by-intravenous-ascorbate-therapy/

Neil Riordan, PhD speaks at the Riordan-McKenna Institute and Stem Cell Institute fall seminar in Southlake, Texas on October 10, 2015. Dr. Riordan discusses: How our lab selects uses specialized...

https://www.cellmedicine.com/why-stem-cells-work-clinical-trials-for-spinal-cord-injury-multiple-sclerosis-rheumatoid-arthritis-and-duchennes-muscular-dystrophy/

Michelle Kéramidas, Florence de Fraipont, Anastassia Karageorgis, Anaïck Moisan, Virginie Persoons, Marie-Jeanne Richard, Jean-Luc Coll and Claire Rome Abstract (provisional) Introduction Under...

https://www.cellmedicine.com/the-dual-effect-of-mscs-on-tumour-growth-and-tumour-angiogenesis/

Zhao et al. Nature. Embryonic stem cells are associated with numerous ethical dilemmas. The creation of equivalents of ES cells through retrodifferentiation led to a new area of research that doe...

https://www.cellmedicine.com/killing-of-the-ips-field/

A research team at Deakin University has made a discovery that could have huge implications on the treatment and survival rates of cancer victims. The researchers, along with scientists in India ...

https://www.cellmedicine.com/worlds-first-chemical-guided-missile-could-be-the-answer-to-wiping-out-cancer/

Knorr et al. Transl Res. 2010 Sep;156(3):147-154. Epub Immune therapy of cancer is an exciting prospect given the possibility of treating cancer without the side effects associated with conventio...

https://www.cellmedicine.com/pluripotent-stem-cell-derived-natural-killer-cells-for-cancer-therapy/

Jiang et al. Discov Med. 2010 Jul;10(50):24-8. Philosophically, tumor cells have an advantage to humans in the “War on Cancer”. That is, the tumors have the ability to rapidly mutate, so that...

https://www.cellmedicine.com/eradication-of-brain-tumor-stem-cells-with-an-oncolytic-adenovirus/

The use of the immune system to target cancer has been a therapeutic goal for over a century. The advantage of immunotherapy is the possibility of targeting cancer throughout the body in a non-to...

https://www.cellmedicine.com/identification-of-peptides-which-show-potential-to-generate-cancer-stem-cell-specific-immune-responses/

The area of cancer stem cells is very hot. To give an example, the pharmaceutical company GSK recently purchased the cancer stem cell company Oncomed for more than a billion dollars, at a time wh...

https://www.cellmedicine.com/natural-compound-in-broccoli-slows-breast-cancer-stem-cells/