Many tumors have cancer stem cells that help them grow and evade treatments. Differentiation therapy forces these cells to mature, stopping growth with less toxicity than traditional treatments.
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The rule, which previously acted as the upper time limit on human embryo research, has been dropped, paving the way for research on older human embryos.
The International Society for Stem Cell Research’s newly released guidelines aim to address new ethical challenges posed by stem cell advances such as model embryos and human-monkey hybrid embryos.
All multiple sclerosis sufferers have stem cells with the potential to heal them, but scientists are only just figuring out how to kick them into action.
Researchers from Kyushu University, Japan, are the first to turn mice stem cells into mature eggs that can be fertilised.
A gene mutation that causes problems for neural stem cells – the building blocks of the brain – could be corrected by adding carnitine.
When it comes to stem cells, the ways that informed consent has been obtained in the past are not sufficient and improvements are needed.
South Africa has no legislation setting out the rules for biobanks and the guidelines that do exist are not clear or detailed. This leaves the door wide open for unethical practises.
Unless the South African government tightens its laws that govern stem cell treatments, unproven stem cell therapy will continue to surge.
Many countries are introducing legislation and allowing practitioners to use medication still undergoing trials but that show preliminary signs of being safe, including some stem cell treatments.
South Africa may have legislation broadly guiding stem cell research and treatment, but these laws must be updated and clarified for it to be effective.
Stem cell research and therapy have become buzzwords across the globe. Although some of the treatments are controversial and unsafe, there is also a great deal of excitement and promise.
Stem cell research and therapy has taken the world by storm. Here’s what you need to know about it.
Plucking hairs from the scalp causes surrounding hairs to regenerate, and could be a novel treatment for alopecia sufferers.
In the European Union, the European Citizen’s Initiative was set up with the aim of bringing the activities of the European Parliament closer to the citizens of Europe. If a petition can achieve 1m signatures…
One of the world’s largest clinical cell therapy trials has begun to enroll 3,000 heart attack patients, some of whom will have bone marrow cells extracted with a needle from their hip and fed into their…
Reading about the rapid pace of advances in biomedicine, you may have wondered why more politically liberal countries like Germany and Canada have stronger restrictions on embryonic stem cell research…
The potential of stem cells is everywhere in medicine - from growing new tissue that could go on to provide replacement organs, repairing damage from disease or injury and in reconstructive surgery. And…
Researchers from the University of Toronto have designed a new way to mature heart cells, which do not usually reproduce…
Damage to vital organs, the spinal cord, or limbs can have an enormous impact on our ability to move, function – and even live. But imagine if you could restore these tissues back to their original condition…
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Director, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Medicine & SAMRC Extramural Unit for Stem Cell Research & Therapy, University of Pretoria
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Professor and Former Program Leader of Stem Cells Australia, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Law, College of Law, University of South Africa
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Research Group Leader, Stem Cells, CSIRO
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Professor and Director, Centre for Genetic Diseases, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Monash University
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Chair, The Conversation Media Group
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MB/PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
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Professor in Clinical Ethics, Macquarie University
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Consultant, Cell Therapy and Genomics, University of Pretoria
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Senior lecturer in reproductive Biology, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Human Genetics: Stem Cell Researcher, University of Cape Town
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John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham
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Assistant Research Scientist, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Texas A&M University
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, UCL
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Professor of Tissue Development and Regeneration, University of Southern California