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:: 19 July 2006
Medical Studies/Trials
Safety of Spinal Cord Stem Cell Transplant Established...
According to University of California - Irvine researchers, transplanting human embryonic stem cells is not harmful and can serve as a therapeutic approach for the treatment of severe spinal cord injury. Identical data published by four other laboratories in the world show that rats with either mild or severe spinal cord injuries that were transplanted with a treatment derived from human embryonic stem cells suffered no visible injury or ill effects as a result of the treatment itself.
:: 4 July 2006
The News Journal
Experimental Procedure Brings Hope to Man...
At the Hosptial de Egas Moniz in Lisbon, Portugal, Yaros underwent an olfactory mucosa autograph - a type of stem cell surgery. Researchers believe that the transplanted stem cells in this procedure can help repair a damaged spinal cord.
:: 15 March 2007
The Argus
Pioneering Stem Cell Treatment Aids Patients with Rare Eye Disorder...
The disorder is called aniridia and is very rare. The genetic condition results in loss of vision and pain. Individuals are born with no iris and later develop problems on the surface of the eye. Stem cells are transplanted on to the surface of the cornea after being grown in a laboratory until the form sheets. The cells themselves are taken from the patients themselves, living realtives, or even dead donors.
:: 3 December 2006
The Hindu
Corneal Disorders Treated with Limbal Stem Cells...
At unbelievable speeds of 60 to 80 mm per hour, limbal stem cells replicate and move across the surface of the eye. The cells are critical for the normal function of the cornea, vision, and comfort. A damaged eye is then given a transplant with newly grown tissue derived from limbal stem cells. The procedure is called ex vivo limbal stem cell replication.
:: 8 November 2006
Medical News Today
Three Blind Mice No Longer, Adult Stem Cells Restore Sight...
3-day-old mice provided the cell samples from the retina. The blind mice were then given the cells via transplant directly into the eyes. Gradually, the mice began to regain their eyesight. Humans blinded by diabetes or age-related macular degeneration have renewed hope as the results of this study could ultimately lead to sight restoration for those individuals.
:: 14 August 2006
The Daily Record
Blind Man Pins Hopes on Revolutionary Stem Cell Treatment...
This revolutionary stem cell treatment will be the first of its kind and if successful, Phil hopes it will let him see his fiancée Yvette for the first time in three years. Phil has trouble making out colors and the world appears blurry most of the time due to the nerve damage his genetic condition has caused.
:: 3 June 2005
Hickory Daily Record
Sight Restored! Stem Cell Therapy Returns Vision to Legally Blind Man...
After years of living with foggy colors and blurred shapes, Greg can see clearly. He was unable to read or drive a car four years ago. But his outlook changed, quite literally, due to stem cell therapy. He can now see with almost perfect vision. In 2002, using stem cells from umbilical cord blood and no embryonic stem cells, Greg, 48, began stem cell therapy. He later had a corneal transplant and the morning of his surgery he was unable to read even a single word. That very afternoon, he was reading a magazine for the first time in 20 years.
