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What is a Benign Blood Disorder?
It might sound counterintuitive, but not every patient comes to Dana-Farber for cancer treatment. For example, the Institute’s experts regularly see patients seeking help with benign (non-cancerous) blood disorders. Benign blood disorders such as anemia and sickle cell disease are often treated at cancer centers because such institutions are home …
Stem Cell 'Patches' Could Help to Fix Injured Hearts
Researchers have made "patches" that could be used to fix up failing hearts using a new combination of cells, new research done in guinea pigs shows.
How Much Can Women Trust That Breast Cancer Biopsy?
Pathologists are great at spotting cancer, but less so at identifying atypical cells or DCIS, a study finds. That could lead to women getting too much treatment — or not enough.
Tips for Managing Growth: Put the Patient First
Dr. Timothy Ihrig, Medical Director of Palliative Care at the Trinity Regional Medical Center within the Unity Point Heath System, offers advice on how to ov...
Testing Living Cells to Measure Cell Compression
Living cells frequently show altered mechanical properties following infection and disease. It is possible to detect whether and how any given cell is affected using quantitative tests of the mechanical stiffness of the cell membrane on a nanoscale.
Are mesenchymal stromal cells immune cells?
Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are considered to be promising agents for the treatment of immunological disease. Although originally identified as precursor cells for mesenchymal lineages, in vitro studies have demonstrated that MSCs possess diverse immune regulatory capacities. Pre-clinical models have shown beneficial effects of MSCs in multiple immunological diseases and a number of phase 1/2 clinical trials carried out so far have reported signs of immune…
An Easy Test for Sickle Cell Disease
A team of biomedical engineers has developed a simple, inexpensive, and quick technique for the diagnosis and monitoring of sickle cell disease that can be used in regions where advanced medical technology and training are scarce.
How sickle cell anaemia takes a toll on patients
Chronic ailing keeps them out of class, costs them jobs, robs them of lovers
Patients reveal the remarkable benefits of stem cells
Stem cells are the human body's raw material for repairing itself. They can self-renew or turn into a specific type of cell, such as blood or muscle. They have a range of benefits for treating conditions.
What is Stem Cell Treatment?
Stem cells are our body’s repair system. When cells with a specific function need to be replaced, it’s stem cells that get the job done.…Read More
Smudge Cells: Artifacts or Clinically Significant?
In today’s hematology lab, when physicians order a CBC with differential, they typically request a CBC with automated differential. Thus, up to 85% of our CBCs are autovalidated because they are en…
Melanoma cells put to sleep by T cells improving outcomes, find researchers
Australian researchers have found that special immune cells of the body not only protect us from the invading bacteria, viruses and microbes but also play a role in reducing the aggressiveness of the melanoma cells.
Should You Inject Stem Cells?
Controversial new rejuvenation treatments use umbilical cord cells. Emily Listfield investigates.
Stem Cell Clinics Promise Miracle Cures, but at What Cost to Patients?
These clinics offer shining testimonials. Yet, the technique has not been proven safe and effective.
Are Stem Cells The Future Of Stroke Treatment?
While stem cell research, medical practices and “treatments” have made headlines for years, the truth is that the stem cell world closely resembles the Wild West. To date, there has been very little evidence that they work, thus leaving a lot of room for snake oils and exaggerated claims.
Advances in regenerative cardiac cell therapy bode well for heart patients
Cardiology Today | The results of recent studies have bolstered understanding and given direction to researchers studying both stem cells and the regenerative properties of the heart.<br>While much of the research into regenerative cell therapy and the use of stem cells to treat various CVDs is still in the experimental phase, more preclinical studies are beginning to emerge suggesting favorable safety and
Study Finds Human Stem Cells May Help To Treat Patients
For the first time, scientists are reporting that human embryonic stem cells may be helping treat patients — in one instance, the cells seem to been enabling some blind people to see better.
How Medical Marijuana's Chemicals May Protect Cells
As more states legalize treatment, scientists are learning how the plant's chemicals may help conditions ranging from brain injuries to cancer
Could gene therapy cure sickle cell anemia?
An NIH clinical trial is ushering in a genetic revolution as an innovative type of gene therapy is used to attempt to cure sickle cell anemia. Dr. Jon LaPook reports
Want to cure disease? Repurpose the body's cells
If one part of the body breaks, can you just replace it with cells from another organ? That's the hope of stem cell scientists who are reprogramming cells to treat major conditions such as incontinence and heart failure.
