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Stem cell tracking system promises more targeted regenerative therapies

Stem cell tracking system promises more targeted regenerative therapies

Stem cells hold enormous potential for repairing or regenerating damaged tissue. But delivery of these cells to their target location remains a major obstacle. Now, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine in California have developed a novel nanoparticle-based system that allows stem cells to be tracked in real time in a living mouse for up to a year after injection. This work, if replicated in humans, could finally allow scientists to verify if these cells are going where they’re intended.  Read more

Mouse stem cells manipulated to create egg-producing ovary

Mouse stem cells manipulated to create egg-producing ovary

From recent news about uterus transplants to controversy over the possibility of so-called ‘three-parent children’, the lengths to which modern medicine will go to achieve conception are increasingly expanding. Creating an ovary that can itself produce viable eggs might soon be added to that list.  Read more

VIDEO: Stem cell discovery puts women’s reproduction on fertile ground

Researchers have discovered a population of human ovarian stem cells with the potential of forming new eggs during a woman’s reproductive years. The findings, reported online today in Nature Medicine, could lead to new therapies that might help extend female fertility into late middle age and beyond.  Read more

Results from two patients signals possible efficacy of stem cell-based eye therapy

Geron may have been the first company to launch a US trial with regulatory clearance involving a human embryonic stem cell (ESC)-derived product. But Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) made history itself today, becoming the first biotech to report results about such a product in a major peer-reviewed journal.  Read more