Adult Stem Cell Doc Blog

NIH on Tuesday announced that 13 additional embryonic stem cells line are eligible for federal funding, including nine lines that have never been eligible and four long-used lines derived at the University of Wisconsin, the Washington Post reports. Shortly after taking office, President Obama lifted many of President George W...

Many of the colon cancer cells that form tumors can be killed by genetically short-circuiting the cells' ability to absorb a key nutrient, a new study has found. While the findings are encouraging, the test tube study using human colon cancer cells also illustrates the difficulty of defeating these cells, known as cancer stem cells (CSCs)...

An examination of the world-wide use of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), which involves transplantation of blood stem cells derived from the bone marrow or blood, finds that there are significant differences in transplant rates between countries and continental regions by indication and donor type, and that HSCT is most frequently used in countries with higher gr...