Note that some people often confuse stem cell transplants with fetal stem cell therapy.
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Large pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and Merck have so far steered clear of stem cell therapy.
Now this condition can be repaired with a stem cell therapy (not yet approved in the U.S.).
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But the company has already invested tens of millions in the stem cell therapy over the past decade.
Geron's treatment for spinal cord injury was the first human embryonic stem cell therapy to receive FDA approval for a clinical trial.
Making stem cell therapy a mainstay will take years of research, complicated by the trickiness of harvesting the elusive cells for study and use.
Other treatments could affect the same litany of diseases touted as targets for stem cell therapy: Alzheimer's, osteoporosis and Parkinson's, to name a few.
The goal of this research is to establish whether there may be any role at all for stem cell therapy in autism spectrum disorder.
If this were a gene therapy trial or a stem cell therapy trial, the results would be heralded as a major breakthrough, benefiting all mankind.
That used to be a permanent and fatal condition, but today you can fix that condition with a stem cell therapy that is definitely regarded as bioengineering.
The goal of the trial will be to evaluate whether stem cell therapy has any effect on behavior and language difficulties commonly experienced by children with autism.
Research in autism has indicated abnormalities in spinal fluid and chemical signaling in the brain- anecdotal reports of children undergoing stem cell therapy have indicated some potentially encouraging results.
While some theories suggest that connections between neurons or nerve cells may be to blame for autism, it is unclear if stem cell therapy may help to restore such connections.
Each has demonstrated leadership in a different aspect of stem cell therapeutics and each is progressing toward an approved stem cell therapy that could have a significant effect on medical practice.
That statement is at odds with promises posted on a relatively new Web site run by an 80-year-old Florida doctor named Burton Feinerman, who says he's been conducting stem cell therapy for three years.
However, as more becomes known about the relatively new field of stem cell therapy, a more specific matching system may be required, said Dr. Joon Lee, cardiologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
The rationale for pursuing stem cell therapy in autism is based on encouraging results of unpublished data examining stem cell therapy in children with cerebral palsy, a group of disorders that affect not only movement, but learning, behavior and cognition.
Friedlander's stem-cell therapy could one day compete with drugs like Lucentis from Genentech.
It is an investor in the San Diego biotech company Novocell, which is developing stem-cell therapy to cure diabetes.
Osiris Therapeutics is testing in new diabetics an adult stem-cell therapy that it hopes will have fewer side effects than anti-CD3 drugs.
Friedlander's stem-cell therapy could one day compete with drugs like Lucentis from Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ).
Osiris Therapeutics (nasdaq: OSIR - news - people ) is testing in new diabetics an adult stem-cell therapy that it hopes will have fewer side effects than anti-CD3 drugs.
Marley, a Labrador, got stem-cell therapy for his arthritis, surgery on his windpipe to deal with a condition that was choking off his breathing, and, at the end, medication to ease the pain of advanced cancer.
Only last year, she said, Egli and Paull and their colleagues demonstrated that the nuclear transfer of eggs cells could generate patient-specific stem cell lines for potential cell replacement therapy to treat diseases like diabetes.
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Consolidation chemotherapy is a less intensive post-remission maintenance therapy than a stem cell transplant.
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In a small number of patients, a stem cell transplant can be curative, but the therapy can also be fatal, especially in older patients.
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The preferred therapy for many with AML is stem cell transplant.
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" Anti-ban Billionaires" (Sept. 4) seems to lament the fact that the government prevents federal funding of embryonic stem cell research when the potential medical benefits of such therapy are so great.
When it comes to people, said Dr. Hsieh, it might be similarly effective to give the therapy in the first week after a heart attack, when stem-cell activity is highest.
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