regenerative medicine

Secrets of a Cell Engineer

September 7, 2011

Tissue engineer and TED Fellow Nina Tandon is growing artificial hearts and bones. To do that, she needs new ways of caring for artificially grown cells — techniques she’s developed by the simple but powerful method of copying their natural environments.

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The Lab Growing New Organs

August 30, 2011

Anthony Atala’s state-of-the-art lab grows human organs — from muscles to blood vessels to bladders, and more. At TEDMED, he shows footage of his bio-engineers working with some of its sci-fi gizmos, including an oven-like bioreactor (preheat to 98.6 F) and a machine that “prints” human tissue. Anthony Atala is the director of the Wake [...]

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Umbilical cord blood: a source of pluripotent stem cells for regenerative medicine

August 17, 2011

There are estimates that that almost 1 in 3 individuals in the United States might benefit from regenerative medicine therapy. Unfortunately, embryonic stem (ES) cell therapies are currently limited in meeting this demand due to ethical, political, biological and regulatory hurdles. Thus, the future growth of regenerative medicine in the clinic will depend upon the [...]

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Will Regenerative Medicine Replace Organ Harvesting?

August 2, 2011

Pioneering surgeon Susan Lim performed the first liver transplant in Asia. But a moral concern with transplants (where do donor livers come from …) led her to look further, and to ask: Could we be transplanting cells, not whole organs? At the INK Conference, she talks her passionate story through her new research, discovering healing [...]

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What is Regenerative Medicine?

April 15, 2011

The next frontier is regenerative medicine. Growing human body parts, essentially from scratch. It’s already happening. Skin. Bladder. More or less “printed” out, layer by layer, with cells blown through an inkjet printer.  The great hope is creating and replacing body parts on demand. The U.S. military is all over it. Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative [...]

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CIRM grants UCLA, Cedars-Sinai researchers $5.6M for stem-cell projects

January 28, 2011

Researchers at UCLA and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center were awarded about $5.6 million in grants Thursday aimed at funding efforts to remove technological barriers to moving stem-cell research projects into clinical trials. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) awarded nearly $33 million in grants to 19 researchers across the state. “These awards are a crucial [...]

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Cord Blood May Help Repair Children’s Heart Defects

March 23, 2010

Stem cells from umbilical cord blood may provide the raw material to repair the hearts of thousands of babies born each year with defective heart valves, according to data presented at the recent American Heart Association annual meeting. University Hospital of Munich cardiologists reported they are about five years away from transplanting new heart valves [...]

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Duke University Receives $10.2 million Grant for Cord Blood Research

March 22, 2010

Duke University has received a grant from the Robertson Foundation to facilitate  Duke Medicine’s pioneering cell therapy research and treatment programs for children and adults with cancer, cerebral palsy, stroke and brain injuries suffered at birth.   The intention of the grant, according to Victor J. Dzau, M.D., chancellor for Health Affairs, is to facilitate the [...]

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Umbilical Cord Blood as a Readily Available Source for Off-the-shelf, Patient-specific Stem Cells

March 10, 2010

Umbilical cord blood cells can successfully be reprogrammed to function like embryonic stem cells, setting the basis for the creation of a comprehensive bank of tissue-matched, cord blood-derived induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells for off-the-shelf applications, report researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the Center for Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona, Spain. http://tinyurl.com/yef639j

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