An international research team from the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and the UCLA developed a promising gene therapy which treated 48 out of 50 kids with a form of serious immunodeficiency that practically leaves them without an immunity. Caused by adenosine deaminase deficiency, also known as ADA-SCID, is a […]
A research team from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis successfully used human stem cells as cells able to produce insulin. This important breakthrough may have big implications for more than 420 million individuals worldwide who’re diagnosed with diabetes. The cells helped control the blood sugar levels […]
In March this year, more than 6000 people came to bid and become potential stem cell donors for a young boy who was diagnosed with leukemia. The boy, aged 5 and named Oscar Saxelby-Lee, needed a transplant within a three-month period of his chemo; otherwise, his chances for recuperation would […]
Kristopher Boesen’s life drastically changed when he lost control of his car while driving on a slippery surface and hit a lamp post and a tree. Unfortunately, the accident left him paralyzed from the neck down and was told by his doctors that he may never regain his movement. But, […]