Toddler’s Rare Leukemia Treated by Sister’s Cord Blood
After two planned transplants from unrelated donors fell through at the very last minute, Australian three-year-old Tommy Bacon is now in remission from a rare, dangerous form of leukemia following a transplant of the stem cells from his baby sister’s cord blood.[1]...
Stem Cell Treatment Successfully Cures Type 1 Diabetes
A 25-year-old woman from China is the first in the world to have been cured from type 1 diabetes, following an injection of islet cells derived from her own reprogrammed stem cells. The study, published in the Cell journal, offers real hope to the millions of people...
Combination Therapy Using Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Could Be Key to Treating Spinal Cord Injuries
A new study on the effectiveness of treatment for spinal cord injuries indicates that a combination therapy, including epidural electrical stimulation (EES) as well as neural stem cells and umbilical cord stem cells, could offer better results than any one treatment...
Tom Curry Undergoes Stem Cell Therapy
England flanker Tom Curry is undergoing stem cell therapy as a follow-up to last year’s career-saving surgery.[1] Suffering from chronic hip pain and reduced range of motion, Curry was diagnosed with femoroacetabular impingement syndrome, where the ball of the hip...
World Cord Blood Day 2024
Today marks World Cord Blood Day – a day dedicated to highlighting the medical breakthrough that began 36 years ago, in 1988, with a single transplant. That cord blood transplant opened the door to a new era in medicine. Since then, stem cells from cord blood...
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