Researchers at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children have moved a step closer to use stem cells to repair damaged organs like the lungs, liver and pancreas cells. The technique will enable doctors to treat a host of ailments. The discovery involves key mechanisms that control how human stem cells transform into immature endoderm cells, ...

In February, Marcela DeVivo took her baby son to the Dominican Republic and paid $30,000 to have him injected with blood stem cells from aborted fetuses.Nathan, who turns 2 next month, was born with the hemispheres of his brain fused. He is physically and mentally handicapped. DeVivo is among a growing number of Americans spending up to ...

A $225 million venture fund -- the first exclusively aimed at emerging stem cell companies -- looks to line up its lead investors by the end of the year, possibly by the end of September. Proteus Venture Partners plans to invest in 10 to 15 so-called regenerative medicine companies at $10 million to $20 million per investment, said Jeffrey ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota are doing promising research building animal organs from the ground up.

ABCNews reminds us that you'll find the first (expensive, comparatively crude) experimental application of new technologies right where the money is. In the case of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, modern athletics is one such location: ''some researchers are optimistic that sports medicine could reap the benefits of stem cells in the ...

The Daily Yomiuri reports on one more step forward of many: ''A team of doctors has succeeded in creating a hepatic cell out of subcutaneous fat, a development that might lead to a regenerative medicine technique that would enable patients with hepatitis or cirrhosis to have their livers repaired. ... the doctors used a cell called mesenchymal ...

If you like to see how the sausage is made, Seeking Alpha takes a look inside Geron, a company representative of the messy business of developing the latest regenerative medicine and cancer therapies: ''Geron has two telomerase-based cancer drugs in human trials, though both are early stage. For metastatic prostate cancer, the company is injecting ...

Here we have a look at the mess people have made of what should have been a good, solid decade of unrelenting progress in the foundation of regenerative medicine, via EMBO reports: ''it is still unclear which human stem cells -whether embryonic [ESCs] or adult [ASCs] - will be developed and for which conditions. Given this, the focus of the NIH in ...

Another nice application of early regenerative medicine via Medical News Today: ''Lower back pain (LBP) affects a large proportion of the adult population at some point in their lives and in many of these cases it is persistent, eventually leading to debilitating pain. The majority of the cases of LBP are due to degeneration of the intervertebral ...

The BBC reports on another way to potentially guide cells in your body to take that extra step to repair damage: ''cells in the heart's outer layer can migrate deeper into a failing organ to carry out essential repairs. The migration of progenitor cells is controlled by a protein called thymosin beta 4, already known to help reduce muscle cell ...