Giraffes are big! Although that seems obvious, what many people don’t realize is that being so big places a heavy burden on joints. This is true for humans as well as animals. At Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a 14-year-old giraffe named Mahali suffered from arthritis in his front left hoof that was causing him a lot of …
Surgery Using Stem Cells Help Paralyzed Rat Walk Again
There are an estimated 17,000 spinal cord injuries in the United States alone every year. A severed spinal cord in a human has never before been completely healed, but science is working in that direction as researchers from Tel Aviv University and Technion have healed the severed spinal cord of a rat using stem cells. Researchers explained that the stem …
How Stem Cells Are Working to Change Diabetes Treatments
Worldwide, more than 415 million people are living with diabetes. In 2012, scientists from the University of British Columbia were able to reverse diabetes in mice using stem cell transplants. Since then, stem cell therapy has been aggressively studied for its use in the treatment of and, ultimately, cure for diabetes. In clinical trials all over the country, scientists, researchers …
New Anti-Aging Stem Cell Treatment Successful in First Human Trials
A new stem cell therapy focused on age-associated frailty has seen success in its first two human trials. The treatment extracted adult stem cells called mesenchymal stem cells, or MSC, from bone marrow and infused them into patients with an average age of 76. The main purpose of these trials was to test for safety, and both phases showed no …