Stem cell news and views

Posts Tagged ‘heart’

Stem Cell-Derived Heart Cells: Bruce Conklin – CIRM Science Writer’s Seminar

(Part 3 of 9) Bruce Conklin, MD, spoke at the Scientific Writer’s Seminar, a workshop presented on September 17, 2008 at CIRM headquarters in San Francisco. Conklin has a CIRM grant to develop a method for screening drugs for toxic effects using stem cells. Conklin is a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular [Continue]

Adult Stem Cells May Target and Repair Heart Attack Damage

A 41-site clinical trial, testing the restorative effect that adult bone marrow stem cells have on damaged or injured myocardium in heart attack patients, is being led at Wake Forest Baptist by Sanjay Gandhi, MD. Video Rating: 5 / 5 When little Chloe Levine was diagnosed with cerebral palsy her parents were devastated. But because [Continue]

Washington Man has Adult Stem Cell Transplant After Heart Failure

Heart Failure and Stem Cell Therapy at Hospital Angeles Tijuana. Physician Case Manager 866.668.9263 ext 126 Dr. Janis Gruska, Dr. Perez Video Rating: 5 / 5 Permanent link to this post (28 words, estimated 7 secs reading time) [Continue]

Beating Human Heart Cells from Embryonic Stem Cells

These are beating human heart cells, suitable for replacing those lost during a heart attack, that were created from the (Bush approved) H7 line of human embryonic stem cells. This work was done at the University of Washington in Seattle by the Murry Lab. Video Rating: 0 / 5 Permanent link to this post (51 [Continue]

Heart Attack Healed with Adult Stem Cells

Heart Attack Healed with Adult Stem Cells

www.TexasAllianceforLife.org — Adult stem cells are making amazing progress. This Austin man’s heart was repaired by an IV of Adult Stem Cells after his heart attack. Dr. Roger Gammon of the Austin Heart Hospital explains his amazing results. www.cellmedicine.com Video Rating: 4 / 5 Permanent link to this post (46 words, 1 image, [Continue]

New heart built with stem cells

An entire functional heart was created using a heart ‘shell’ and stem cells. This has been done in the rat & pig, with hopes of using a pig’s heart ‘shell’ for people. Livers, kidneys, and pancreas (much harder) are in the works. They “injected the empty sac with heart cells from newborn rats. Within days, [Continue]

Stem Cell Books

Image of Essentials of Stem Cell Biology, Second Edition
Essentials of Stem Cell Biology, Second Edition
by Robert Lanza, John Gearhart, Brigid Hogan, Douglas Melton, Roger Pederson, E. Donnall Thomas, James Thomson, Sir Ian Wilmut

Recent Comments

 

May 2012
M T W T F S S
« Apr    
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031