Teen gets new windpipe grown from own stem cells

LONDON – A British teenager has got a new windpipe grown from her own stem cells in a pioneering operation.

The 19-year-old has now been discharged after the procedure in Italy.
She was suffering from a rare form of trachea (windpipe) cancer and would have died without the operation, says a Telegraph report from …. Read the original article  : Teen gets new windpipe grown from own stem cells.

US greenlight to world’s first stem cell treatment on humans

LONDON – The world’s first experiments using embryonic stem cells to treat humans have been given the go-ahead in the US.

California-based biotech firm Geron will begin clinical trials on patients paralysed by spinal cord injuries.
Scientists hope that injecting cells from discarded human embryos into the spines of volunteers will trigger regrowth of …. Original article  : US greenlight to world’s first stem cell treatment on humans.

Now stem cell treatment for paralysed patients

LONDON – Japanese scientists claimed to have found a novel method of stem cell treatment that can cure paralysed patients.

The research team at Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, found that stem cells taken from brain could be used to restore movement in people with spinal cord injuries.
Experts said the breakthrough can help … Read this article on Gaea Times at : Now stem cell treatment for paralysed patients.