stem cells

Damage caused by a heart attack has been healed using stem cells gathered from the patient's own heart, according to doctors in the US.

Heart-attack scars -- once thought permanent -- heal after treatment with a patient's own heart stem cells.

Four men allegedly conned more than $1.5M out of terminally ill patients by hawking miracle stem-cell cures, Reuters reported.

Three men were arrested and another is on the run, the FBI reported, after all four were charged with 39 counts of mail fraud and illegally manufacturing, distributing and selling stem cells and related procedures.

(Penn State) A compound produced from fish oil that appears to target leukemia stem cells could lead to a cure for the disease, according to Penn State researchers.

(University of Georgia) Pig stem cell research conducted by two animal scientists at the University of Georgia reveals a better way to determine the safety of future stem cell therapies than rodent-based models.

(American Society for Cell Biology) A "team" of fast-moving, bone marrow stem cells from a research laboratory in Singapore has run away with the first World Cell Race, finishing first with a cellular speed record of 5.2 microns per minute (or 0.000204 inches per minute) in results announced today at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology.

It could be the first real treatment for heart failure: a patient's own heart stem cells, harvested during bypass surgery.

The first 16 patients treated have better heart function and repair of heart-attack damage.

Europe's highest court has ruled that stem cells from human embryos cannot be patented, in a case that could have major implications for medicine.

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A southern Nevada pediatrician has pleaded not guilty in Las Vegas to federal charges that he and a man falsely identifying himself as a doctor conspired to implant chronically ill patients with stem cells harvested from human placentas....

Two of the holy grails of medicine - stem cell technology and precision gene therapy - have been united for the first time in humans, say researchers.