stem cells

A revolutionary process stripped a donor's windpipe of cells prone to rejection and imbued it with tissue generated by the patient's own stem cells

Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs.

LONDON -- Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs.

"This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.

Doctors in Europe have performed the first trachea transplant that hinges on the patient's own stem cells.

Doctors in Spain give a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, avoiding the need for anti-rejection drugs.

LONDON (AP) -- Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs.

"This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.

That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done....

BARCELONA (MedPage Today) -- A tissue-engineered airway, using autologous stem cells, has restored lung function and quality of life for a 30-year-old mother of two, who suffered from tuberculosis.

BERLIN (MedPage Today) -- Specialists are cautiously appraising reports that a bone marrow transplant -- with specially selected donor stem cells -- appears to have cured a 42-year-old American man of HIV.

(American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Researchers report on a previously unknown relationship between stem cell potency and the metabolic rate of their mitochondria -- a cell's energy makers.

Stem cells with more active mitochondria also have a greater capacity to differentiate and are more likely to form tumors.

(Cell Press) By injecting purified stem cells isolated from adult skeletal muscle, researchers have shown they can restore healthy muscle and improve muscle function in mice with a form of muscular dystrophy.

Those muscle-building stem cells were derived from a larger pool of so-called satellite cells that normally associate with mature muscle fibers and play a role in muscle growth and repair.