Stem Cells Therapy in India

Scientists are developing a more effective method for delivering neural stem cells to the brain in an attempt to advance the treatment of neurological disorders using stem cell therapies, according to a recently published scientific paper. The study, which was published in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine, highlights a technique that was created to treat patients with neurological disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, stroke and traumatic brain injury. “Stem cell-based therapy is emerging as a promising treatment for a variety of diseases and injuries,” said Marcel Daadi, director of the Regenerative Medicine and Aging Unit at Texas Biomedical Research Institute’s Southwest National Primate Research Center (SNPRC). “The first step in evaluating the potential of different therapeutic stem cell lines is to develop a safe and effectively reproducible delivery system.” Injection parameters have been studied as applied to drug delivery methods, but these parameters are not dire...

hen Ava Christianson was diagnosed with cancer at the age of four, doctors said she had the best odds. She had the most common type of leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). In 90 per cent of cases, a conventional course of chemotherapy does the trick. But her experience was different. By the age of eight, Wisconsin-born Ava had tried all of the standard therapies - from chemo to a bone marrow transplant - and relapsed five times. However, since she was first diagnosed researchers have made astonishing strides in the field of immunotherapy, training patients' bodies to fight their tumors. It is a groundbreaking approach that offers new hope to patients with no options left. This year Ava became the 18th person in history to try the new five-minute operation at the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Center. In August, doctors gave her the all-clear. Having been disappointed time and time again, her parents Bethany and Jay are reluc...