Items Tagged ‘stem cell therapy’

October 29, 2020

Long-term safety, benefits of stem therapy for heart failure

By Susan Buckles Susan Buckles (@susanbuckles)

The largest regenerative medicine clinical trial to date for heart failure finds stem cell therapy is safe over the long term and benefits patients with advanced left ventricular enlargement. This multinational research, co-led by Andre Terzic, M.D., Ph.D., director of Mayo Clinic’s Center for Regenerative Medicine, and published in ESC Heart Failure, offers guidance in […]

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Tags: cardiac regeneration, cardiopoietic stem cells, CHART-1 Trial, Dr. Andre Terzic, heart disease, Mayo Clinic Center for Regeneration, stem cell therapy


October 22, 2020

Stem cell therapy for kidney damage repair

By Susan Buckles Susan Buckles (@susanbuckles)

Mesenchymal stem cells derived from a person’s fat cells may help repair kidney damage caused by narrowing blood vessels, Mayo Clinic research has discovered. The research by Stephen Textor, M.D., and his team is published in Kidney International. Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine and the National Institutes of Health supported this first-in-human study to […]

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Tags: atherosclerosis, kidney disease, Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine, mesenchymal stem cells, renovascular disease, Stem cell research, stem cell therapy, Stephen Textor


October 8, 2020

Delivering innovative stem cell therapy to slow vision loss

By Susan Buckles Susan Buckles (@susanbuckles)

The regenerative eye scientist, Alan Marmorstein, Ph.D., is drawn to research by the need to find new cures for diseases. As an aspiring researcher, he never envisioned his investigative journey would take him down the path of testing ways to prevent or restore loss of eyesight. However, a post-doctoral lab assignment, a National Eye Institutes […]

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Tags: age-related macular degeneration, alan marmorstein, best disease, macular degeneration, Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine, stem cell therapy, wet macular degeneration


May 24, 2018

Q and A: Stem Cell Therapy for Arthritis

By centerforregmedmc centerforregmedmc (@centerforregmedmc)

This article was first published on the Mayo Clinic News Network. DEAR MAYO CLINIC: What’s the latest information on using stem cell therapy to treat an arthritic shoulder that causes excessive pain? ANSWER: New efforts in regenerative medicine, including stem cell therapy, could dramatically affect orthopedic surgery over the coming years. Much of this hope is pinned […]

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Tags: arthritis, Dr. Shane Shapiro, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine, Medical Research, shoulder arthritis, stem cell therapy, stem cells


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