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TAMPA, FL, March 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Targeted immune suppression using human umbilical cord blood cells may improve the pathology associated with Alzheimer's disease, a new study in a mouse model of this currently untreatable neurodegenerative condition reports. The study, led by researchers at the University of South Florida, is published online in the peer-reviewed journal Stem Cells and Development (http://www.liebertpub.com/scd).Following a series of low-dose infusions of human umbilical cord blood cells into mice with Alzheimer's-like disease, the amount of amyloid-ß and ß-amyloid plaques - hallmarks of Alzheimer's pathology in the brain - was reduced 62 percent. Amyloid-ß induces...

Hi all. I am working on a persuasive research paper for my debate class. My topic is stem cell research and the delimmas facing society, government, and the scientific community. I am having trouble finding documented, peer-reviewed journal articles that discuss the studies conducted showing how adult and umbilical stem cells have been more effective and shown more positive results than embryonic stem cells. I have to make sure I avoid as much as possible anything biased one way or the other and it can't be anything from Newsweek or anything like that. It also has to be something that...

A Ho-Ho-Kus boy's stem cells could help scientists find a better treatment for juvenile diabetes.  Doctors have been injecting Liam Tencza with stem cells taken from the umbilical cord blood his parents saved when he was born seven years ago. The hope is that the stem cells can slow – or even stop -- the progress of his diabetes.  Seven other diabetic children are receiving similar transplants of stem cells from their own umbilical cords in a national pilot study at the University of Florida.  There is no cure for juvenile, or type 1, diabetes, which afflicts more than 1.5...

Wearing a T-shirt with "Girls Rock" emblazoned across the chest, Denise Mallory asserts that she has a little bit of boy in her. "I have boy's blood," said the 8-year-old at her family's home in Chester. "Diesel gave me his blood to save me." Diesel is the nickname for her little brother, Dennis Jr., 4. When he was born, his parents saved the blood from his umbilical cord and had it stored away in a cord blood bank in Oakland, Calif. They did so because Denise has sickle cell anemia, and her parents knew the day could come when a...

The courier arrived just after midnight with a bag of blood collected from a fresh umbilical cord. Inside the laboratory at Family Cord Blood Services in Santa Monica, a worker siphoned off red cells, leaving a dilute mixture of stem cells — a personal supply for Olivia Michelle Boyd, born 15 hours earlier in Honolulu. Her parents, Stephanie and Anthony Boyd, had agreed to pay the company $1,265 to harvest the material and $115 a year to preserve it in a stainless steel tank filled with liquid nitrogen. Olivia was perfectly healthy. The stem cells were, the sales pitches suggested,...

Daily Reproductive Health Report National Politics & Policy | Senators Hear 'Alternatives' to Embryonic Stem Cell Research; Adult Stem Cells, Umbilical Cord Blood Touted [Jun 13, 2003]       The Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space yesterday heard "alternatives" to research using embryonic stem cells, including research using adult stem cells and umbilical cord blood, which some say could be as effective as embryonic stem cells in treating degenerative diseases, the AP/Yahoo! News reports (Abrams, AP/Yahoo! News, 6/12).        Dr. Jean Peduzzi-Nelson of the University of Alabama-Birmingham testified that there is "abundant evidence" that adult stem cells can already...