Hospitals and private clinics in Ireland might be facing legal action from parents because of a policy that prevents the collection of cord blood stem cells at birth. Professor Colin McGuckin, a stem cell specialist, said the country was being “left behind” because hospitals were denying parents a potentially life-saving service that could be used [...]

MIDLAND – Midland Memorial Hospital is now collecting new born baby’s umbilical cord blood. The Hospital says that umbilical cord blood has a plethora of cells that make blood which can be used to treat such illnesses as leukemia and lymphoma as an alternative to waiting for a bone marrow transplant, which could take years [...]

California state Legislature is considering a bill that would increase funding for the collection of umbilical cord blood, instrumental in treatment of many life-threatening diseases that is in short supply for minorities, especially Latinos and Armenians, officials say. The Assembly Committee on Appropriations is slated to take up the funding proposal in a bill written [...]

A pharmaceutical research company based in Japan, Dnavec Corp. has created a new method of designing human stem cells with a significantly lower risk of cancer. Dnavec has successfully created human induced pluripotent stem cells using a virus that won’t change the cells’ DNA. As a consequence of this, there are lowered odds the cells [...]

Cord Blood America, an umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation company, has received a commitment for up to $2.3 million to either buy or build its own laboratory for the purpose of storing of multiple stem cell products including umbilical cord blood stem cells. About $300,000 of the funding has already been received by the [...]

During his graduation speech to the class of 2009 at the University of Notre Dame, President Barack Obama emphasized the use of embryonic stem cell research for juvenile diabetes. During part of President Obama’s commencement speech focusing on the political and cultural disagreements Notre Dame students will encounter as they go into life, Barack Obama [...]

Stem cells were used to treat and heal Eddie Floyd after he suffered an almost life-threatening heart attack. Mr. Floyd, who had suffered a heart attack a couple of years previously, was brought into to the hospital and asked if he wanted to participate in a stem cell research clinical trial using adult stem cells to [...]

On Tuesday, in North Carolina, the state House passed a bill to encourage pregnant women to donate umbilical cord blood to help cancer patients. State Representative Margaret Dickson of Fayetteville sponsored the bill, which now moves to the Senate. If the bill becomes law, the state Department of Health and Human Services would place documents [...]

President Barack Obama’s recent lifting of restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research has puts him at odds with Pope Benedict and the American Roman Catholic Church. After Obama signed the order, the Vatican immediately condemned the move. Obama’s executive order reversed restrictions placed on the research by his predecessor, George W. [...]

Embryonic stem cells are once again getting attention this year, because of work being done by scientists at the University of Minnesota. “Embryonic stem cells are often talked about to treat things like diabetes, Parkinson’s disease and spinal cord injury,” says researcher Dan Kaufman. “Now we really can add cancer to that list.” Dr. Kaufman [...]