Medicine and Stem Cells

In our Medicine and Stem Cells section you can explore the conditions and diseases that can be treated with stem cell therapy or help inform your participation in clinical trials or treatment.

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Conditions
Type

New strategy for brain repair in multiple sclerosis

Stem Cell News Multiple Sclerosis
Improvement in heart function is commonly measured by the increase of ejection fraction (EF)

New study raises doubts over the benefits of heart stem cell therapy

Blood Stem Cells Clinical Trials Heart Disease
Adult MSN

Direct reprogramming: another way of making human neurons

iPS cells Research Huntington's Disease Neurological Disorders
Pacemaker

Learning to build a heart from the cells up

Explore Stem Cells Research Heart Disease
Malin Parmar

Interview with Malin Parmar: Cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease

Stem Cell News Neurological Disorders Parkinson's Disease
Reconstructing Parkinson's

Reconstructing the brain: approaches to treating Parkinson’s disease

iPS cells Stem Cell News Neurological Disorders Parkinson's Disease
Huntingtons

Treating Huntington’s disease: making new neurons is not enough

iPS cells Stem Cell News Huntington's Disease
Huntingtons and Stem Cells

Studying Huntington’s disease using stem cells in the lab

Stem Cell News Research Huntington's Disease
Fibroblasts transformed into induced thymic epithelial cells (iTEC) in vitro; iTEC are shown in green.

Fully functional immune organ grown in mice from lab-created cells

Research Reprogramming
producing beta cells from stem cells

Making insulin producing beta cells from stem cells – how close are we?

Stem Cell News Reprogramming Diabetes
Eye

The eye and stem cells: the path to treating blindness

Current and Potential Uses Factsheets Eye Disease
• EuroStemCell resource
Stroke: how could stem cells help?

Stroke: how could stem cells help?

Current and Potential Uses Factsheets Stroke
• EuroStemCell resource
Keratinocyte colonies

Skin stem cells: where do they live and what can they do?

Current and Potential Uses Factsheets Skin
• EuroStemCell resource
GMP facility

Regenerative medicine and regulation: what’s GMP got to do with it?

Industry Policy & Regulation
Blastocyst

The ethics of changing genes in the embryo

Embryonic Stem Cells Ethics and Society
Word cloud about genome editing

Genome editing and stem cells: Questions and Answers

Ethics and Society Research
Origins, ethics and embryos: the sources of human embryonic stem cells

Origins, ethics and embryos: the sources of human embryonic stem cells

Embryonic Stem Cells Factsheets
• EuroStemCell resource
Human neural stem cells

Motor neurone disease: how could stem cells help?

Current and Potential Uses Factsheets Motor Neurone Disease
• EuroStemCell resource
New tools for disease research: reprogrammed cells in disease modelling

New tools for disease research: reprogrammed cells in disease modelling

Current and Potential Uses Factsheets
• EuroStemCell resource
Human mesenchymal stem cells

MSCs: the 'other' bone marrow stem cells

Cell and Gene Fundamentals Factsheets
• EuroStemCell resource