Stem Cell Blog
Stem Cell Blog
Motor Neurone Disease Awareness
This week we are taking a look at Motor Neurone Disease (MND), a rare degenerative condition where parts of the nervous system become damaged. Also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the condition causes progressive weakness usually accompanied by muscle...
Newborn Screening Awareness
In the UAE, newborn screening has moved beyond a small initial panel and now includes a broad range of inherited and metabolic disorders. Newborn screening in the UAE is carried out using a heel-prick blood test in the first days of life, similar in principle to the...
2014 Review
2014 was a busy year for stem cell research. Here we take a look back at the year’s leading developments. 2014 was a successful year for stem cell research in autoimmune diseases; an autoimmune disease is a condition whereby the body’s immune system attacks cells the...
World Braille Day: Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency Awareness
For World Braille Day we will be raising awareness of blindness caused by Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency (LSCD) and how stem cells are being used to save sight. The cornea is the window of the eye, covering the pupil, the lens and the iris. In order for vision to be...
HIV and AIDS Awareness
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the precursor of AIDS. HIV is a 'lentivirus’ which is a type of virus that slowly attacks the immune system; it belongs to a larger family of viruses known as retroviruses [1]. The origins of HIV are still widely debated and...
