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Second transplant gives boy, 4, new lease of life
A family said they feel “incredibly lucky” after a second donor was found for a four-year-old boy needing a stem cell transplant. Gunner was born

Human umbilical cord tissue allograft may treat cartilage degeneration, hip OA
Healio, July 2 , 2024 References Use of cryopreserved human umbilical cord tissue, known as Wharton’s jelly, may be an alternative treatment for tissue regeneration

NK cells expressing interleukin–21 show promising antitumor activity in glioblastoma cells
MD Anderson News, August 12, 2024 Natural killer (NK) cells engineered to express interleukin–21 (IL–21) demonstrated sustained antitumor activity against glioblastoma stem cell–like cells (GSCs)

Potential new approach to enhancing stem-cell transplants
Science Daily, August 9 , 2024 A discovery by a three – member Albert Einstein College of Medicine research team may boost the effectiveness of

New stem cell therapy for heart failure undergoing U.S. clinical trials
News Medical Life Sciences, Aug 7 , 2024 A new stem cell therapy for heart failure is being tested in patients at the University of

Update on Cord Blood Transplant Survivor Mason Shaffer
Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood, July , 2024 Mason Shaffer received a cord blood transplant in 2009 at age 7 months for the rare condition

Umbilical Cord-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Boost Survival in Patients With Acute GVHD
Cancer Nursing Today, July 4 , 2024 By Katie Kosko Patients with acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) who received umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (UC-MSCs) had

Learn the Latest on Stem Cell Therapy for Treating Parkinson’s
American Parkinson Disease Association, July 3 , 2024 Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by a loss of neurons in the brain that communicate using the

Why cancer risk declines sharply in old age
Nature, July 02 , 2024 New research identifies some of the genes that could help to explain why lung cancer incidence rises with age but

Sorting therapeutic stem cells by function improves healing after heart attack, lab study shows
Medical Xpress, July 2 , 2024 Selecting specific cells to be used in an investigational therapy has led to improved recovery of heart function in