One of the nation’s leading providers of umbilical cord blood stem cell banking offers an encouraging analysis of the industry by reviewing their own major milestones that have been achieved just within the first half of 2009.
Undergraduate biomedical engineering students at Johns Hopkins University demonstrate a novel type of suture embedded with adult stem cells for use in orthopedic, cardiac, obstetric, and other types of surgery.
Induced pluripotent stem cells have been used in a mouse model to repair damaged heart tissue.
A man suffering from advanced scleroderma shows dramatic improvement after being treated with autologous adult stem cell therapy.
Although the cosmetics industry has jumped on the stem cell bandwagon with a new line of "stem cell" products, not everything is what it appears to be.
Representatives at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada announced over $1 million in funding for a major international research project on the development of adult stem cell therapies for the treatment of cartilage injuries in horses.
