Stem Cell Therapy: A Potential Crohn's Disease Breakthrough in 2022?

Stem cell therapy may be a viable new treatment option for Crohn's Disease. Studies have shown that stem cells may be able to greatly improve patient symptoms without the exorbitant recurring costs of traditional medications.

  The Stem-Cell Revolution Is Coming — Slowly

A Kyoto University scientist, Shinya Yamanaka, and his graduate student, Kazutoshi Takahashi, re-energized the field by devising a technique to “reprogram” any adult cell, such as a skin cell, and coax it back to its earliest “pluripotent” stage. From there it can become any type of cell, from a heart muscle cell to a neuron. The breakthrough sidestepped the embryo controversy, offering researchers an unlimited supply of stem cells.

 Stem cell therapy offers a new hope to repair brain damage in newborns

No therapy exists for newborns with stroke. Researchers, including our own team at University Medical Center Utrecht, have been working on new treatments, one of which involves stem cells.

 Stem cell transplants to be used in treating Crohn’s disease

Current treatments, including steroids, aim to suppress this immune reaction. In the last decade, there have been great advances in treatments including targeted biological therapies that can heal the gut. However, these treatments don’t work for all patients, and some who initially respond well may loose their response over time. Most treatments have side effects, including a risk of infection

 What stem cell-based therapies are currently available?

Currently, the only stem cell-based treatment that is routinely reviewed and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is hematopoietic (or blood) stem cell transplantation. It is used to treat patients with cancers and disorders that affect the blood and immune system.

For the first time, scientists genetically modified stem cells to give a boy entirely new skin

They took a tiny patch of healthy skin—just four square centimeters (0.62 square inches)—from the boy’s stomach. Then, they used a benign virus to genetically modify the stem cells within the skin to make laminin-322 and grew nearly a full square meter of the skin. Over the course of three surgeries in October and November of the same year, they grafted this new, genetically-corrected skin to his body. Almost two years later, the young boy has made essentially a complete recovery.

Many Fraudulent Stem Cell Beauty Treatments Are Being Sold Online

An analysis of websites found clinics that sell "stem cell" facelifts, breast augmentations, and vaginal rejuvenation procedures.

Stem cell clinics hawking unproven therapies sprout up across US

So far, there are few approved therapies. But clinic operators have capitalized on the hype to sell untested procedures directly to patients, with little oversight from federal regulators.

The Holy Grail of Medicine: On the Mystery and Power of Stem Cells

They've already enabled paralyzed rats to walk, blind mice to see, and monkeys suffering from Parkinson's to show improvement. What's next?

Current state of stem cell-based therapies: an overview

In this review, the advances and challenges for the development of stem-cell-based therapies are described, with focus on the use of stem cells in dentistry in addition to the advances reached in regenerative treatment modalities in several diseases.

FDA to Expand Its Authority Over Stem-Cell Treatment Facilities

The Food and Drug Administration is stepping up oversight of fledgling medical treatments that aim to harness the potential of stem cells—as well as some businesses that the agency said were selling unapproved and possibly harmful treatments.

I Work With Stem Cells. Here's Why I Won't Be Injecting Them Into Myself.

As someone who has a fair bit of knowledge about stem cells, especially with regards to their involvement in cancer, I won’t be injecting them into any part of my body anytime soon.

Scientists Are Developing New Ways to Treat Disease With Cells, Not Drugs

Not only can stem cells lead to new treatments for diseases where they can replace ailing cells, but they can also provide a critical new way to study conditions that have remained black boxes because scientists simply didn’t have the luxury of studying live cells.

Scientists are ready to treat Parkinson’s with stem cells

Researchers think they’ve found a way to more permanently treat an incurable movement disorder, by transplanting reprogrammed neurons made from stem cells into patients’ brains.

Stem Cell Clinics Are Ruining People's Lives

Patients are promised revolutionary therapy, only to find they’ve wasted their money—or worse.

Stem Cell Therapy - Ready for Prime Time?

Adult stem cells hold enormous potential in the treatment of disease, but more importantly they do not carry the burden of controversy that has surrounded embryonic stem cells for well over two decades.

Stem cell treatments: Miracle cures or dangerous experiments?

Currently, stem cell based treatments are still mostly experimental, and while some results are encouraging, several clinical trials have failed.

STEM CELLS...It's Our Future

Stem cell therapy is probably one of the most promising medical advancements this century. Yet, the politically charged embryonic stem cell issue has stymied research. But there is good news for your future!

Stem-cell therapy is poised to disrupt the Tommy John epidemic in baseball

Many of the doctors now doing stem-cell therapy started off with PRP procedures. When baseball players have a torn ligament, they typically try PRP first. If that fails, it’s Tommy John time.

Stem-Cell Treatments Become More Available, and Face More Scrutiny

Stem-cell treatments aren’t approved by the FDA and not long ago, Americans had to travel to Mexico, China or elsewhere to receive them. Now, with the regulatory environment murky, clinics offering them are spreading rapidly across the U.S.

The FDA is going after stem cell clinics that peddle unproven treatments

Currently, the only stem cell therapies approved by the FDA use cells from bone marrow or cord blood to treat cancers of the blood and bone marrow. But doctors in the Cell Surgical Network have moved ahead with using cells for autoimmune, neurologic, and other serious conditions.

The Lifesaving Power in Stem Cells

Liars and thieves should not be allowed to detract from legitimate scientific research that has made umbilical cord blood mystic in its regenerative powers.

What Does It Mean When Athletes Get 'Stem Cell Therapy'?

Media cheerleading is misleadingly legitimizing the booming "stem cell tourism" industry.

What lies behind the hype and the hope of stem cell research and therapy

In research, stem cells are at the cutting edge of science, with regular breakthroughs being announced in the field. By 2012, it was estimated that there were close to 100,000 active stem cell researchers across the globe. Massive funding is being directed globally into research which continues to provide hope to millions of patients.