Lifeline Cord Blood

By Kim Tae-gyu - Staff Reporter

2nd Stem Cell Operation Planned for Patient Hwang By Kim Tae-gyu Staff Reporter A second round of stem cell therapy will be conducted on a woman who walked again last year after being paralyzed for 19 years via a first-round operation

CBS News

Barry Petersen reports on amazing advances in using stem cells to help paralyzed patients regain function. The research is in South Korea and China, where there are no ethical fetters on the work.

CBS News

Barry Petersen reports on amazing advances in using stem cells to help paralyzed patients regain function. The research is in South Korea and China, where there are no ethical fetters on the work.

15/02/2005

A South Korean woman paralysed for 20 years is walking again after scientists repaired her damaged spine using stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood. Hwang Mi-Soon, 37, had been bedridden since damaging her back in an accident two decades ago...

Spinal cord injuries have always been difficult to treat but doctors in China may have finally found the answer. Groundbreaking surgery was just carried out on a paralyzed man in the northern city of Tianjin, a four-hour procedure to try and remedy the effects of a traffic accident the patient figured in two months ago.

Cellular therapy for spinal cord injury (SCI) is overviewed focusing on bone marrow mononuclear cells, olfactory ensheathing cells, and mesenchymal stem cells. A case is made for the possibility of combining cell types, as well as for allogeneic use.

University Of South Florida Health Sciences Center

Tampa, FL (June 12, 2003) - Stem cells derived from human umbilical cord blood (HUCB) migrate to damaged areas in the brain and spinal cord caused by disease or injury and provide some therapeutic benefit, two new animal studies by researchers at the University of South Florida Center of Excellence in Aging and Brain Repair found.

The Korea Times, Kim Tae-gyu, Staff Reporter

A team of Korean researchers claimed they had performed a miracle by enabling a patient, who could not even stand up for the last 19 years, to walk with stem cell therapy. During a press conference, the scientists said they had last month transplanted multi-potent stem cells from umbilical cord blood to the 37-year-old female patient suffering from a spinal cord injury and she can now walk on her own.

BBC News

A mother has been saved from life in a wheelchair thanks to a medical breakthrough. Jane Figgett was told she would lose her leg after suffering a severe fracture. Now she's back on her feet and on the mend after a pioneering experiment with stem cell therapy. Joanne Writtle has been to meet Jane and the doctor who's given her back her freedom.

BBC News

People who have been left paralysed by spinal injuries have been given new hope by fresh scientific research. Trials involving injecting white blood cells into the spinal cord have produced promising results. Gill Higgins reports.

March 15th 2021
Justin Varholick, PhD

March 15th 2021
Justin Varholick, PhD

Human neural stem cells transplanted into the injured spines of monkeys matured into nerve cells, spurring neuronal connections and giving the animals an improved ability to grasp an orange, researchers report today (February 26) in Nature Medicine.

ABC 7

A Virginia woman is recovering from a revolutionary stem cell surgery she hopes will help her walk again. Michelle Farrar traveled to South Korea - to become only the 7th person in the world to have this procedure.

Although preclinical trials have shown that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are therapeutically effective against atopic dermatitis, actual clinical studies had not yet confirmed it – until now. MSCs are typically found in bone marrow, but it can be isolated from other locations such as the fallopian tube, fetal liver, fetal lung, and even from umbilical cord blood.

29/06/2016

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