A new study that used adult blood stem cells to create replacement brain nerve cells appears to help rats with Parkinson’s. In Parkinson’s, the disease attacks brain nerve cells that produce ...
https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2022/05/20/replacement-brain-cells-offer-hope-for-parkinsons-treatment/
THIS BLOG IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN AUDIO CAST California researchers from UCLA and colleagues have created a first-of-its-kind roadmap that traces each step in the development of blood stem cells ...
THIS BLOG IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN AUDIO CAST Immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that uses a person’s own immune system to fight cancer. It comes in a variety of forms including targ...
When someone scores a goal in soccer all the attention is lavished on them. Fans chant their name, their teammates pile on top in celebration, their agent starts calling sponsors asking for more ...
Stroke is the third leading cause of death and serious long-term disability and affects nearly 800,000 Americans a year, with someone in the U.S. suffering a stroke every 40 seconds. Roughly 87% ...
Alpha thalassemia major is, by any stretch of the imagination, a dreadful, heart breaker of a disease. It’s caused by four missing or mutated genes and it almost always leads to a fetus dying b...
For Evie Junior, personal health and fitness have always been a top priority. During his childhood, he was active and played football, basketball, and baseball in the Bronx, New York. One would n...
Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency-I (LAD-I) is a rare pediatric disease caused by a mutation in a specific gene that causes low levels of a protein called CD18. Due to low levels of CD18, the adhesio...
https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2020/10/20/cirm-funded-trial-for-lad-i-announces-positive-results/
A simple blood stem cell transplant is showing tremendous promise in treating a wide range of metabolic, blood and immune disorders such as thalassemia and some leukodystrophies. These are consid...
https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2020/07/20/cord-blood-transplants-help-children-fighting-deadly-diseases/
If that headline seems familiar it should. It came from an article in MIT Technology Review back in 2009. There have been many other headlines since then, all on the same subject, and yet here we...
https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2020/06/22/scientists-engineer-stem-cells-to-fight-hiv/