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To date Spain is a country, where the health system succeeded to organize one of the most successful models transplantologic service.

Actually, the Spanish surgeons have performed more than 90,000 organ transplants, 300,000 tissue transplants and about 50,000 transplants of bone marrow and cord blood transfusions. And the Spanish people, needing organ transplants...

A pharmaceutical firm based in Hyogo is set to submit an application for government approval of cultured cells (stem cells) as medicine, the first firm in Japan to do so. This medical treatment is aimed at bone marrow transplant patients, to help reduce the side effects of the procedure.

JCR Pharmaceutical Co., a midsize company in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture is expected...

Every year, the famous American biologist and writer Paul Knоepfler predicts development of cellular technologies in the coming year.

According to the forecast of professor Knoepfler, in 2014 surprised the world will be astonished by the following top 10 events in the field of...

A new stem cell treatment may help heart attack patients do something once thought medically impossible — regenerate dead heart muscle.

Scripps Health in La Jolla is one of three centers testing the therapy from Capricor, a Los Angeles biotech company. The cardiac stem cells are meant to boost the heart’s natural ability to perform minor repairs. If it works,...

For nearly three decades, the umbilical cord blood is increasingly used in clinical practice as a source of hematopoietic stem cells, alternative to bone marrow of an adult body.

Currently more than 30,000 cord blood transplants for the treatment of malignant and other diseases in children and adults were perfomed worldwide. But in recent years, scientists in addition to populations...