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Interview with Matt Farrow, Recipient of World’s 1st Cord Blood Transplant
Matthew Farrow, then a 5 year old boy with Fanconi anemia, received the world’s first cord blood transplant on 6 Oct. 1988. The pioneering medical event was an international effort: Matthew came from...
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September 29 is a World Heart Day
September 29 is annually held as a World Heart Day, organized in 1999 by the World Heart Federation. The purpose of this campaign is to raise public awareness about the dangers of cardiovascular...
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News of cellular medicine (based on the proceedings of the international...
24-27 June 2015, Stockholm (Sweden) hosted the 13th annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research – ISSCR. In Ukraine, Institute of Cell Therapy is a member of the International...
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October 14th 2015 is a Stem Cell Awareness Day
Wednesday, October 14th 2015 marks Stem Cell Awareness Day, which brings together organizations and individuals around the world working to ensure that we realize the benefits of one of the most...
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The world’s first application of iPS-cell
In 2006, Professor Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University for the first time in the world received stem cells from normal human skin cells. These cells were called induced pluripotent (multifunctional)...
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14 November is a World Diabetes Day
Every year worldwide on November 14, the Day of awareness about diabetes mellitus is being held, which aims to raise knowledge of people about methods of prevention and early diagnosis of this...
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Spain starts clinical trial to cure HIV using umbilical cord stem cells
Medical researchers in Barcelona. Photo: Josep Lago / AFP Doctors in Spain have announced the world’s first clinical trial to cure five HIV patients within three years using transplants of blood from...
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Review of reports, presented at the 13th meeting of the International Society...
As we reported earlier, in June 2015, Stockholm (Sweden) hosted the 13th meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, where Ukraine was represented by the Institute of Cell Therapy. We...
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Institute of Cell Therapy is studying placental stem cells in the treatment...
Ukraine is one of a few countries in the world that can be proud of the most long-lasting traditions of studying of the placenta and production of high-effective products from it. A huge contribution...
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Achievements of ICT in 2015
The year 2015 is coming to an end… And traditionally, we are drawing conclusions on the activity of the Institute of Cell Therapy in the current year and making plans for the coming year. Despite the...
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A child with apraxia syndrome began to talk after cord blood infusion
Isabella is three-and-a-half years old, but just weeks ago, she said her brother’s name for the first time. Her older brother, Matthew, 15, was diagnosed as a child with the same condition that she...
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The world’s second successful transplantation of the umbilical cord blood for...
A hematologist-oncologist in Ali Asghar Hospital in Tehran has successfully carried out the second autologous transplant for aplastic anemia child patient. MD Gholamreza Bahoush, a...
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Cell technologies in the treatment of herniated discs
One of the diseases of the musculoskeletal system in humans, which causes significant pain and functional neurological disorders is a herniated disc. More than 100 billion dollars are spent annually...
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7 April – World Health Day
April 7th is annually internationally marked as the World Health Day. This year, World Health Day was held under the slogan «To overcome diabetes!». According to the Medical Statistics Center of the...
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Scientists have grown working heart muscle from stem cells
Adult skin cells have been used to grow functional heart tissue in a major medical breakthrough. Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully grown functional heart tissue from...
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Stem cells are used to regenerate an eye’s lens and restore vision
If worn body parts could be repaired, we could live longer and healthier lives. That is the dream of those working in the field of regenerative medicine. In a feat towards that dream, researchers in...
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CURRENT STATUS AND PROSPECTS OF CORD BLOOD BANKING IN UKRAINE
The development of therapies using cord blood components contributed to the emergence and worldwide expansion of cord blood banking as a separate biomedical industry. The first cord blood bank was...
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In USA technology to grow blood vessels got licence
The creation of vascular bioprostheses as well as bone fragments, organs and skin flaps from the cell material is one of the most pressing problems of modern biotechnologies. In scientific journals...
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Stem cells are used to treat cardiomyopathy in ATO soldier
Researchers of the National Institute of Surgery and Transplantation n.a. O. Shalimov of AMSU perfomed a unique operation with the transplantation of the stem cells. Artillerist Alexander Sidletsky...
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July is cord blood awareness month
The value of cord blood in today’s world is undoubtful and the experience of its successful applications counts more than 35,000 transplants. In addition to the treatment of malignant diseases of...
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