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ADULT STEM CELL SOURCES pretty much gut the embryonic objections to stem cell treatments. Even cells from aged patients are suitable, making autologous stem cells a viable option in elders. Much of the debate today seems to forget that we no longer need embryos as a source for stem cells. Big shift in factual basis of the debate. View in LinkedIn

EU STEM CELL LEGISLATION. "The Flemish universities are very concerned that the European Commission has agreed to consider a citizens' initiative that would ban the funding of scientific research involving human embryonic stem cells. Such legislation would endanger ... Research ...diseases such as Parkinson's and diabetes." http://lnkd.in/bfxbhud View in LinkedIn

STEM CELLS FOR EYES. "Stem cell technology holds great potential for improving the lives of people who suffer from visual disorders ... Stem cells are not a one-stop, generic cure, but they do hold exciting potential for the production of new biological components that can be used to repair the eye." http://lnkd.in/bPKZNgT View in LinkedIn

CULTURED ORGAN TRANSPLANTS. "While only a small number of patients have received lab-grown organs so far, the scientists hope to be able to create more types of body part soon and perform the first successful transplant of a nose grown from stem cells. A trial of lab-made ears is also due to start later this year." http://lnkd.in/b92nuME View in LinkedIn

REALITY CHECK. No drug, be it a small molecule or biological, could achieve the remarkable rebuilding feats of cellular architecture that stem cells have achieved. It is no wonder that stem cells have attracted such international attention as perhaps the most disruptive event in medicine since the discovery of antibiotics by Alexander Fleming. View in LinkedIn

CORD STEM CELLS FOR RETINAL REPAIR. "Investigators at Johns Hopkins report they have developed human induced-pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) capable of repairing damaged retinal vascular tissue in mice. The stem cells, derived from human umbilical cord-blood and coaxed into an embryonic-like state, were grown without the conventional use of viruses, which can mutate genes and initiate cancers." http://lnkd.in/bQsjtZR View in LinkedIn

FUTURE EYE THERAPY WITH STEM CELLS, "using retinal stem cells to try to replace lost photoreceptors in the degenerating retina, and that’s really targeted at retinitis pigmetosa initially, but we hope things like macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, diseases like those, will also be treatable someday with stem cells." http://lnkd.in/bjRzhiZ View in LinkedIn

REBUILDING PHOTORECEPTORS WITH STEM CELLS. "They have used a new technique for building retinas in the laboratory ... collect thousands of stem cells, which were primed to transform into photoreceptors, and injected them into the eyes of blind mice. The study showed that these cells could hook up with the existing architecture of the eye and begin to function." http://lnkd.in/bdAFYAC View in LinkedIn

CORNEAL REPAIR WITH STEM CELL DISC. “The disc has an outer ring containing pockets into which stem cells taken from the patient’s healthy eye can be placed. The material across the center of the disc is thinner than the ring, so it will biodegrade more quickly allowing the stem cells to proliferate across the surface of the eye to repair the cornea.” http://lnkd.in/bsJjTxq View in LinkedIn

STEM CELLS REPAIR FAILED VISION. "An experimental stem-cell treatment has restored the sight of a man blinded by the degeneration of his retinal cells. The man, who is taking part in a trial examining the safety of using human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to reverse two common causes of blindness, can now see well enough to be allowed to drive. http://lnkd.in/bTbj6W5 View in LinkedIn