Recent News:
- Umbilical blood cells kill cancer quicker than adult cells Daily News – February 2016
- Stem Cells Used to Treat Serious Burns Medical Xpress – June 2015
- Growing New Limbs: The importance of stem cell technology and cord blood banking FOX News – June 2015
- Stem Cell Therapy Effective at 3 Years for Multiple Sclerosis Remission HCPLive – April 2015
- Child with Severe Metabolic Disorder Benefits from Stem Cell Transplant Healio – January 2015
- Stem Cell Transplant May Help Patients With MS CBS News – December 2014
- New Stem Cell Research by Dr. David Steenblock WND – November 2014
- New Stem Cell Approach Promising for Cancer Treatment PLOS ONE – August 2014
- Team Grows Fake Skin Using Stem Cells from Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Translational Medicine – November 2013
- Cord Blood Engraftment with Ex Vivo Mesenchymal-Cell Coculture The New England Journal of Medicine – December 2013
Recognized finance expert Suze Orman approves cord blood banking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FctlnayPz78
Cord Blood Transplants
- Umbilical blood cells kill cancer quicker than adult cells Daily News – February 2016
- Doctors Turn To Cord Blood Transplants In Hopes Of Curing Patients With HIV Fox News – June 2012
- Stem Cell Treatment for Eye Disease Shows Promise New York Times – January 2012
- Children Cured With Cord Blood Transplant NBC Philadelphia – October 2011
Cancers (including Leukemia)
- Human Umbilical Cord Wharton’s Jelly Stem Cell Ectracts Inhibit Cancer Cell Growth In Vitro Journal of Cellular Biochemistry – April 2012
- Cord Blood Transplants A Viable Option In Leukemia Reuters.com – June 2010
- Yale Althlete Mandi Schwartz in Urgent Need of Marrow of Cord Blood Donor Yale.edu – June 2010
- Cord Blood To Help Save Oklahoma Boy – Treatment Will Help Fight Boy’s Leukemia KOCO.com – May 2010
- Two Units of Umbilical Cord Blood Reduce Risk of Leukemia Recurrence ScienceDaily – November 2009
- Children’s Hospital in Colorado Rounds off List of 24 Cord Blood Transplant Centers Worldwide Enrolling for ExCell Trial Studying StemEx® for Leukemia and Lymphoma The Children’s Hospital – September 2009
Cerebral Palsy
- FDA Permits Study of Cord Blood Stem Cells for Cerebral Palsy Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, Director of Duke University’s Pediatric Bone Marrow and Tranplant program, has been authorized by the FDA to conduct a randomized clinical study to test the efficacy of cord blood stem cells in treating pediatric patients with spastic cerebral palsy. “The study could entice more parents to have their child’s cord blood stored in private cord blood banks,” Kurtzberg said.
Cord Blood Banking
- What Do You Know About Cord Blood Banking? FoxNews.com – July 2011
- Kansas Governor Signs Bill to Establish Ethical Stem Cell Center National Right to Life News – April 2013
Diabetes
- Type 1 Diabetes Stem Cell Treatment Shows Promise WebMD – June 2012
- Cord Blood Stem Cells Improved Metabolic Control In Type 1 Diabetes Endocrine Today – March 2012
- Type 1 Diabetes Reversed With Stem Cells From Cord Blood Medical News Today – January 2012
Cord Blood Breakthroughs ABC News – January 2010- Stem Cell Transplants In Diabetes Type 1 Patients Kick Starts Own Insulin Production Medical News Today – April 2007
Heart Disease
Cord Blood Stem Cells May Help Treat Heart, Lung Disorders U.S. News – November 2009- Cord Blood Used to Treat Childhood Heart Defects Medical News Today – December 2008
- Cord Blood Stem Cells Used to Fashion Heart Valves MedicineNet – November 2008
- Cord Blood Stem Cells And Cardiovascular Disease Medical News Today – February 2008
Regenerative Medicine
- What is Regenerative Medicine?
The next frontier is regenerative medicine. Growing human body parts, essentially from scratch.It’s already happening. Skin. Bladder. More or less “printed” out, layer by layer, with cells blown through an inkjet printer. The great hope is creating and replacing body parts on demand. The U.S. military is all over it. Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and chair of the urology department at the School of Medicine at Wake Forest University. He led the first team ever to implant a laboratory-grown organ into a human, a bladder, in 2006. - Oprah Winfrey and Dr Oz discuss the future of Regenerative Medicine – https://youtu.be/v-Q2kghHwq4
- Researchers Study Cord Blood Stem Cells for Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Medical News Today – January 6, 2011
- Human Umbilical Cord Blood Cells Found to Enhance Survival and Maturation of Key Brain Cells PhysOrg.com – December 14, 2010
- House Revives Umbilical Cord Blood Bill LifeNews – September 30, 2010 The House of Representatives on Thursday reauthorized the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act, a bill that aims to advance the use of umbilical cord blood in research. The bill would allot $23 million in federal funding for the National Cord Blood Inventory between 2011 and 2014 and $20 million in 2015. The bill also would set aside $30 million from 2011 to 2014 for the Bone Marrow Transplant initiative and $33 million for 2015. Update: On 10-8-2010 the president signed P.L. 111-264, (S 3751), the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act of 2010, to amend the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005.
- Multiple Sclerosis Patient Walks Following Stem Cell Therapy Fierce BioTech Research – December 2009
- Five Body Parts You May Be Able To Regrow Soon(ish) Popular Mechanics – December 2009
- Lone Star Paralysis Foundation Readies to Find a Cure Austin Business Journal – December 2009
- Retinal Cells From Stem Cells Treat Blindness in Rats The Santa Barbara Independent – December 2009
- StemEx(R) Noted As A Reliable Investigational Product Of An Expanded Population Of Stem Cells Medical News Today – November 2009
- Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplant May Help Lung, Heart Disorders Science Daily – November 2009
- Concentrating on Stem Cells Harvard Gazette – September 2009 Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology launches firts undergrad concentration.
- Umbilical Cord Blood as a Readily Available Source for Off-the-Shelf, Patient-Specific Stem Cells NewsWise – September 2009
- Cord Blood: Research Progress and Future Promise AABB News – April 2009
- Lifetime Probabilities of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in the U.S. ASBMT – American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Parkinson’s Disease
- Breaching The Blood/Brain Barrier To Improve Treatment For Neurodegenerative Diseases Medical News Today – July 2010
- Mesenchymal stem cells might be useful in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease PlosOne.org – February 2010