Stem Cells
Chinese scientists reverse type 1 diabetes with cell transplant: Report
Chinese scientists claimed to have cured a chronic type-1 diabetes patient using cell transplants in what was stated to be the first such case in the world. The patient, a 25-year-old woman who had the chronic condition for over a decade, was able to naturally regulate her blood sugar some two and half months after undergoing the minimally invasive surgery, the Shanghai-based Chinese news outlet, The Paper reported. According to the report carried by the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post, the surgery took just half an hour. The team behind the breakthrough published their findings in the peer-reviewed journal Cell last week. Researchers from Tianjin First Central Hospital and Peking University were among those who took part in the study, the report said. So far, islet transplant, which involves removing islet cells from the pancreas of a deceased donor and implanting them in the liver of someone with type 1 diabetes, is regarded as an effective clinical treatment but is ...
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India's first off-the-shelf cell therapy treatment for knee osteoarthritis
One injection will cost Rs 1.25 lakh with effects lasting for two years or more
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Stem cell research community drops 14-day limit on human embryo research
The International Society for Stem Cell Research has announced it no longer endorses the prevailing international standard limiting human embryo research to 14 days
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Stem cell treatment could be a proven therapy for diabetes, autism
Clinical trials are also under way for autism
Boosting stem cells may stop multiple miscarriages: Study
The researchers behind the breakthrough will soon start studies into a treatment
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