Stem cell case studies

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Stem cells cure diabetes - case study

"Stem cell transplants 'have freed patients with type 1 diabetes of daily insulin injections'" The Daily Telegraph has said. The news comes after research which allowed volunteers to go, on average, for two and a half years without using the multiple daily injections normally needed to manage their condition.

 

Cord Blood Stem Cells Reverse Girl's Cerebral Palsy - case study

When Chloe Levine was 9-months-old, her parents noticed she couldn’t hold her bottle with her right hand. That wasn’t her only developmental setback. Chloe, of Pinetop, Arizona, was unable to raise both hands above her head, and she could not crawl. At 12 months, a CAT scan showed a portion of the left side of Chloe’s brain had not developed and contained fluid. Seeking answers, Chloe’s parents, Ryan and Jenny Levine took their daughter to a neurologist who diagnosed the toddler with right-side hemiplegic cerebral palsy.

 

Pioneering heart surgery saves man’s life - case study

Surgeons have, for the first time, used a combination of an artificial heart and stem cells to save the life of a dying man.

 

Eva's life saving transplant - case study

Three year-old Eva Winston-Hart from Leicestershire is getting better by the day after undergoing stem cell surgery a few months ago in America to treat her leukaemia. Now her family is campaigning for change in the UK.

 

Last November three year-old Eva Winston-Hart from Market Harborough, was diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia.

Her need for a life-saving bone marrow transplant triggered off a search for a match which some of YOU took part in, but which finally, and somewhat surprisingly, resulted in a suitable donor being found in the United States.

Stem cells to help burns victims - case study

A Singapore company has used stem cells to help victims of serious burns and other wounds to grow fresh skin. While more work must be done to test the promise of the new treatment, the procedure has so far allowed three patients to do away with painful skin grafts. The work led by Singapore-based biotech company Cell Research Corporation is done at the National Hospital of Traditional Medicine and St Paul's Hospital Burns Centre in Vietnam. It involves growing stem cells on synthetic scaffolds, and transferring them onto patients' wounds.

 

Stem cell eye treatment gives sight back - case study

A man who was partially blinded after intervening in a fight has had his vision restored by a new stem-cell therapy.

 

Russell Turnbull, 38, lost most of the sight from his right eye in 1994 when he was sprayed in the face with ammonia while trying to break up an altercation on a bus in Newcastle upon Tyne. The chemical burnt his cornea, leaving him with cloudy vision, pain on every blink and extreme sensitivity to light.

Amazing stem cell treatment saves Kent man's leg - case study

A Gillingham man who faced losing his leg in a climbing accident saw it saved thanks to a revolutionary 'glue' made from stem cells.

 

Andrew Kent's right leg was broken in five places by a falling boulder while he was climbing with his son in the Langdale Pikes in the Lake District in April. The 53-year-old was rushed to hospital in Carlisle, where the broken bones were pinned back together in three operations.

MS sufferer walks after stem cell treatment - case study

An Australian man who was confined to a wheelchair by multiple sclerosis has made a remarkable recovery after receiving a groundbreaking stem cell treatment.

 

Jaw bone created from stem cells - case study

Scientists have created part of the jaw joint in the lab using human adult stem cells. They say it is the first time a complex, anatomically-sized bone has been accurately created in this way. It is hoped the technique could be used not only to treat disorders of the specific joint, but more widely to correct problems with other bones too. The Columbia University study appears in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The bone which has been created in the lab is known as the temporomandibular joint (TMJ).