Children's Cord Blood Bank & Research Foundation

10/22/2022

The Autumn colors are really on display in New Jersey today.

01/06/2021

Researchers make counterintuitive discoveries about immune-like characteristics of cells

Biologists reveal that tissue perturbations by chemotherapy agents promote stem cell expansion and that fibroblast cells exhibit unexpected, immune-like behavior.

01/04/2021

Research to see the effectiveness of combining platelet-rich plasma (PRP) derived from a patient’s own blood with stem cells derived from their body fat (adipose tissue) or bone marrow to treat Osteoarthritis Pain

By Pat Anson, PNN Editor A Canadian doctor is recruiting patients for a "first of its kind" stem cell research project for osteoarthritis. The Phase II study could further advance the use of regenerative medicine in treating osteoarthritis, a joint disease for which treatment options ar

01/01/2021

12/30/2020

Coupling antibiotics with stem cells to fight off bone infections

Researchers investigated the effects of adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) loaded with the antibiotic ciprofloxacin on osteomyelitis caused by implants. By administering ADSC-loaded ciprofloxacin to the site of bone infection in rats, the researchers found a significant improvement of the infection,...

12/28/2020

Using Stem Cells for Drug Discovery

Using Stem Cells for Drug Discovery 0 By Will Doss on Oct 14, 2020 Alfred George, Jr., MD, chair and Magerstadt Professor of Pharmacology and director of the Center for Pharmacogenomics, was a co-author of the study published in Cell Stem Cell. A group of scientists combined medicinal chemistry and....