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On the auspicious eve on 2008 Beijing Olympics Professor John Rasko, talks about the methods by which the performance of the athletes could be increased.

A Spanish baby’s cord blood stem cell saved the life of a leukaemia patient in Scotland. The little boy Jordan was suffering from the deadly disease and stem cell was his last ray of hope. The doctors have found the required stem cell after going through the international stem cell register. Only then the [...]

An American child was denied flight to China from the Vancouver International Airport. She headed to China for stem cell treatment for her deadly disease. She was suffering from a rare disease called Batten’s disease. And now, she is waiting for death helplessly. At first the Air China and then the Air Canada refused [...]

The use of cosmentic solution may change very soon. The stem cell therapy can soon make it possible. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, said that the stem cell treatment can take the place of cosmetic surgery and the technique will be free from any side effect or problems that the [...]

Rusty was a paraplegic for more than nine years. He can now walk and go to the bathroom on his own. This has become possible due to the stem cell therapy associated with physical therapy, which Rusty took for few months.

Shenzhen Beike Biotechnology Co., Ltd. announced the successful treatment of two similar spinal cord injury patients using two different procedures that involved umbilical cord stem cells.
One method involved surgical transplantation of stem cells directly into the spinal cord, while the other patient received the stem cells without surgery. The announcement was made following a [...]

The Catholic Church declared that it will excommunicate scientists who conduct embryonic stem cell research because it involves the destruction of human life and thus expressed its opposition to the said research.
Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, head of the Vatican department dealing with family affairs told Catholic publication Famiglia Cristiana that “destroying human embryos is equivalent [...]

The Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative which has been voted unanimously by the St. Louis Rabbinical Association, would “ensure Missouri patients have access to any therapies and cures, and allow Missouri researchers to conduct any research, permitted under federal law; ban human cloning or attempted cloning; require expert medical and public oversight and [...]

In a dramatic display of stem cells’ potential for healing, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists reports that they’ve engineered new, completed, fully-working motor neuron circuits — neurons stretching from spinal cord to target muscles — in paralyzed adult animals.
The research, in which mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells were injected into rats whose virus-damaged spinal [...]

Despite their celebrated “immortality,” the capacity of embryonic stem (ES) cells for endless division has its limits. After a very extended childhood spent dividing in a culture dish, even stem cells tend to grow up and assume adult roles as workaday nerve, muscle, or blood cells, never to return to their youthful state.
How some ES [...]