Stem Cell News

Date	Title	Summary
09/12/2008	Combination of umbilical cord blood with BM from a 2-month-old sibling as lifesaving BMT for very severe aplastic anemia	Letter to the editor.
03/12/2008	Heart valves from umbilical cord blood stem cells	Autologous heart valve and coronary vessel prostheses may help to avoid multiple surgeries for children with congenital heart defects.
03/12/2008	Maia's second chance at life	An Auckland child who was brain-damaged at birth has become the first New Zealander to undergo experimental treatment in the United States, using her own umbilical cord blood.
19/11/2008	Windpipe transplant breakthrough	Surgeons in Spain have carried out the world's first tissue-engineered whole organ transplant - using a windpipe made with the patient's own stem cells.
10/11/2008	Umbilical cord blood may help build heart valves	LONDON (Reuters) � Doctors may one day be able to use stem cells taken from umbilical cord blood to build new heart valves for children born with heart defects, German scientists said on Monday.
26/08/2008	Are Autologous Stem Cell Transplants Curative for Mantle Cell Lymphoma?	Two recent studies of up-front autologous stem cell transplants for mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) raise the question of potential cure of this disease. Researchers affiliated with the Nordic Lymphoma Group have reported a 56% event-free survival at six years for a large group of patients with MCL.
22/10/2007	Stem Cells From a Person's Own Umbilical Cord Effective Treatment for Life-Threatening Blood Disease, Study Data Show	Two reports presented at transplantation medicine meeting underscore the important role of private cord blood banking in advancing both traditional transplant and regenerative therapies.
01/06/2007	European Commission awards FP6 research project on cryopreservation of stem cells	Brussels, June 1 2007. - A European consortium of scientists from five leading universities, a research institute and a SME specialising in cryopreservation technology have been selected and awarded by the European Commission to conduct fundamental research in the field of cryopreservation techniques for stem cells. The project has been named CRYSTAL or CRYo banking of Stem cells for human Therapeutic AppLication. The international team will receive research grants up to 2.5 million EUR within the Research Framework Programme 6.
29/05/2007	Transatlantic team bring treating Type 1 Diabetes a step closer	Human tissue producing insulin has been created from Cord Blood Stem Cells. The tissue, which is destroyed in Type 1 Diabetes was developed by the same transatlantic team that were the world�s first to discover �embryonic-like� cells in cord blood and also first to produce liver tissue from the same cells.
02/04/2007	British team grows human heart valve from stem cells	Tissue for transplants could be available within three years if trials are successful.
24/01/2007	Patients own umbilical blood used for the first time worldwide to treat leukaemia	Illinois � For the first time worldwide a child with leukaemia has been successfully treated with its own umbilical blood. German and American doctors reported this in the January issue of the professional journal "Pediatrics". The umbilical blood was prepared and stored at the US umbilical blood bank CorCell Inc.
07/11/2006	Stem cells help mice make insulin	Stem cells from adult human bone helped mice with diabetes make insulin, suggesting new treatments for the disease that afflicts millions of Americans, scientists said Monday.
20/06/2006	Two Autologous Stem Cell Transplants Effective for High-risk Neuroblastoma	According to an article recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, treatment including induction chemotherapy, surgery, radiation therapy, and two (tandem) autologous stem cell transplants can provide long-term survival in approximately half of patients with high-risk neuroblastoma.

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