Uses for Stem Cells...
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Benefits of Stem Cells
With all the controversy surrounding stem cells you may have missed hearing about many of the benefits for the health and medical fields. You may not even be aware that...
Bone Marrow Stem Cells and Diabetes
The prevalence of diabetes has been growing and the goal of finding a cure or more effective treatment than current options has become increasingly important. Ongoing...
Bone Repair With Stem Cells
Repairing bone is important to people who suffer bone trauma or experience a loss of bone from disease. One of the ways in which researchers want to help is by...
Breast Implants from Stem Cells
Breast implants have been a subject of controversy for decades, from the silicone implants that were originally used to the saline and cohesive silicone implants of...
Breast Tissue and Stem Cells
There are many types of stem cells but the key stem cells involved in breast tissue development and growth are called mammary stem cells. One important area of...
Building a Windpipe from Stem Cells
Stem cells have been touted as the treatment of the future for many diseases but perhaps surprisingly, they have also made the news recently for their ability to...
Cancer and Stem Cells
Cancer afflicts millions around the world each year and many go through treatment only to relapse years later. Others die from the disease and often after a great deal...
Fighting Infection With Stem Cells
Sepsis is a potentially deadly health condition that happens when a person has an infection that spreads through their body. It causes inflammation as well as pain...
Growing Facial Bones With Stem Cells
It seems as though the uses for stem cells have no boundaries. In the past few years, they have been used to create a damaged trachea and have even replaced heart...
Improving Memory With Stem Cells
For people who suffer from Alzheimer's disease, losing their memory is devastating. While there is a great deal of active research into how to treat the disease, we...
Lowering Stem Cell Cancer Risk
One of the biggest setbacks to stem cell research is that it can potentially trigger one of the diseases that we hope it will eventually treat one day – cancer....
Major Diseases and Stem Cells
Possibly the most exciting use of stem cells rests on their ability to differentiate into an enormous range of healthy functioning adult cells, thereby providing a...
Stem Cell Treatments for Joint Injuries
Joint injuries can be extremely difficult injuries to treat particularly because they are often slow healing, painful and have an enormous effect on...
Stem Cells and Brittle Bone Disease
Any treatment that is targeted to a foetus tends to raise concerns because the risks and harm caused by an ineffective treatment or one that produces side effects can be...
Stem Cells and Gene Therapy
Gene therapy remains a fairly new and still experimental procedure for the treatment of disease. In addition stem cells are still a relatively new concept and remain a...
Stem Cells and Hair Loss
For men and women who are losing hair the experience can be both frustrating and embarrassing. The association of a full head of hair with youth and vitality has left...
Stem Cells and HIV
HIV is a global problem and affects everyone, no matter where in the world you live – Britain or elsewhere. Finding new ways to battle HIV is key in the minds of...
Stem Cells and Insulin-free Diabetics
For people who suffer from type 1 diabetes, taking insulin each day is a life-saver. These injections give the sufferer insulin, helping them to...
Stem Cells for Leukaemia
When people complain that it is taking too long to bring stem cell treatments to the general public, they often forget that one of the longest standing stem cell...
Stem Cells for Stroke Victims
Brain damage that results from stroke is an enormous challenge to address for people around the world. That's why research into stem cell therapies for stroke...
Stem Cells from Skin Cells
Stem Cells From Skin Cells
The topic of stem cells is an area that has received a lot of press and media attention during the past few years. Most people...
Stem Cells to Re-attach Teeth
Tooth loss affects people in Britain and elsewhere around the world. While modern dentistry offers a number of options for missing teeth, these still take time and...
Stem Cells to Revive Rare Animals
When we think of extinct animals, probably the first one that comes to mind is a dinosaur. But most of us are likely happy to think of these enormous creatures being...
Treatments with Stem Cells
Stem cell treatments hold the exciting possibility of alleviating a great deal of human suffering and mortality. Unfortunately current existing stem cell treatments can...
Turning Stem Cells Into Sperm
There are many different reasons to find ways to create sperm from stem cells – one of these is to help infertile couples have children. It's an enormous field of...
Using Drugs to Unlock Stem Cells
We already know that stem cells have enormous potential for treating some of the world's most devastating diseases but fine-tuning these therapies, overcoming...
Wrinkle-free With Stem Cells
With each new day bringing what seems like another use for stem cells, it is perhaps no surprise that removing wrinkles is one of the purported uses for stem cells....
