State hotfoots plan for organ retrieval centresTimes of IndiaIn order to give a leg-up to organ donation in the state, the health department recently issued a Government Resolution (GR) stating that hospitals with an operation theatre (OT) and an inten…
Bangladesh News 24 hoursFirst cure of AIDS patient reportedBangladesh News 24 hoursDhaka, Sep 17 (bdnews24.com)—The Washington Post has reported first cure of an AIDS patient by a process called blood stem cell transplant in Berlin. The person, known…
Rajamouli pledges to donate his organsOneindia EntertainmentDirector SS Rajamouli made it to the headlines after he donated a portion of profit of his blockbuster movie Eega. Now, the Tollywood filmmaker is back in news again and this time for another …
Panel to form rules for organ retrieval centresDaily News & AnalysisThis past week, DNA has highlighted the problems and the journey of patients who are on the waiting list for organ donation. According to a health department official, “Most of the s…
Paralyzed rats walk again after stem cell transplantNextgovRats once paralyzed after their spinal cords were surgically cut were able to walk again after stem cells were transplanted into injury sites, according to research published in the journal Cel…
Generation of severe combined immune deficiency (SCID) rats: Hosts for …Phys.Org (press release)We also showed that both SCID and FSG rats can serve as hosts for the xenotransplantation of human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, ovarian tumor cel…
BGS Global Hospitals Now Offers Bone Marrow Transplant FacilityMoneylifeBGS Global Hospitals, a part of the Global Hospitals Group launches Bone Marrow Transplantation facility, the latest addition to the gamut of comprehensive organ specific cancer tr…
Independent OnlineChild pleads for life-saving donationIndependent OnlineDurban – Ten-year-old Chase Avice du Buisson desperately needs a bone marrow stem cell transplant. The chances of finding a bone marrow stem cell donor match for the youngster is …
Paralyzed Rats Walk Again After Stem Cell TransplantTechnology ReviewRats once paralyzed from complete surgical cuts through their spinal cords can walk again after stem cells were transplanted into the site of the injury, report researchers today in t…
Hollywood ReporterActress Claire Malis Callaway diesChicago Tribune24 at City of Hope Research Hospital in Duarte, Calif., of congestive heart failure and pneumonia, after having recovered from Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma through a stem cell transplant admini…