A research team at UC Davis Health in Sacramento has completed what the institution calls the world’s first treatment combining open fetal surgery with a stem-cell–seeded patch to repair spina bifida ...

BALTIMORE -- The 4-month-old on the operating table has a shocking birth defect, nearly half his heart is too small or even missing. To save him, surgeons will have to reroute how his blood flows, a ...

Stem cell therapy could represent a new frontier in the treatment of certain birth defects. Preliminary research published today suggests that donor stem cells received in the womb can help children ...

A Phase I clinical trial published in The Lancet has shown that combining stem cell therapy with standard fetal surgery before birth is a safe and promising approach to treat myelomeningocele, a ...

The combination of placenta-derived stem cells (PMSCs) with standard in utero repair for severe spina bifida appears feasible and safe, with no cell-related adverse events observed at birth, a ...

Stanford Medicine pediatric hematologist Agnieszka Czechowicz, MD, Ph.D., has devoted her research career to improving treatments for rare blood disorders. She's an expert in Fanconi anemia, a genetic ...

This image shows a postnatal neural stem cell (NSC) in the ventricular-subventricular zone. The majority of postnatal NSCs are maintained in a quiescent state, allowing for long-term maintenance.

All cell types found in the body are derived from stem cells. However, genetic mutations can impact the ability of stem cells to develop into fully functional cells. Also, as the body ages, the number ...

In an allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplant, the blood system of a recipient with a haematological disease is replaced with that of a tissue-matched donor. For many individuals with such diseases, ...