Combining cord blood transplant with a pooled stem cell product to treat blood diseases shows promise in improving efficacy, safety and accessibility for patients needing a stem cell transplant.
A combination blood stem cell and pancreatic islet cell transplant from an immunologically mismatched donor completely ...
Longer follow-up from the NMDP's ACCESS trial emphasizes the opportunity to use mismatched stem cell donors in more diverse ...
HIV can be controlled but not completely eradicated by current drugs. (Artem_Egorov/iStock/Getty Images Plus) After receiving a stem cell transplant from his brother, a 63-year-old Norwegian man known ...
An “immune system reset” cured autoimmune, or Type 1, diabetes in mice in a Stanford Medicine study. The approach may be useful for other autoimmune conditions as well as organ transplants.
In a historic milestone for Uganda’s healthcare system, the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) on Friday discharged its first bone ...
Lab-grown dopamine cells show early success in Parkinson’s patients, improving movement and offering a new treatment path.
Stem cell transplants remain essential for blood cancers, with expanded donor options including half-matched family members and umbilical cord blood. Cyclophosphamide has improved graft-versus-host ...
A 64-year-old Norwegian man appears to have been cured of HIV following a stem cell transplant from his sibling. The patient, ...
Beyond traditional monitoring of kidney transplant recipients, donor derived-cell free DNA may permit early identification of graft damage.
Stem cell transplants led to remissions for Elsa “Elsie” Wiemerslage, 16, who died April 15. “She was a quiet, quiet warrior, ...
A new way of using umbilical cord blood for treating blood diseases could make the treatment more accessible to patients who ...