Stem Cells

Injecting MWCNTs can kill tumor initiating breast cancer stem cells

10 Feb 2012

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center researchers have again proven that injecting multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) into tumors and heating them with a quick, 30-second laser treatment can kill them.

Neurologic improvement detected in rats receiving stem cell transplant

9 Feb 2012

( Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine ) In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in Dallas, Texas, researchers will report that early transplantation of human placenta-derived mesenchymal stem cells into the lateral ventricles of neonatal rats with birth-related brain damage is possible, and that the donor cells can ...

Study looks at whether stem cells in cord blood might repair hearing loss in kids

9 Feb 2012

TORONTO - Researchers have been given the go-ahead to test stem cells from cord blood with the ultimate goal of reversing hearing loss in infants and toddlers whose inner ears have been damaged.