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Wearable device helps vision-impaired avoid collision

Posted: Published on March 27th, 2015

16 hours ago Gang Luo, Ph.D., Associate Scientist at Mass. Eye and Ear/Schepens, and Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, adjusts the wearable device that his team created to help those who are visually impaired avoid collision while walking. Credit: Peter Mallen, Mass. Eye and Ear People who have lost some of their peripheral vision, such as those with retinitis pigmentosa, glaucoma, or brain injury that causes half visual field loss, often face mobility challenges and increased likelihood of falls and collisions. As therapeutic vision restoration treatments are still in their infancy, rehabilitation approaches using assistive technologies are often times viable alternatives for addressing mobility challenges related to vision loss. Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Schepens Eye Research Institute used an obstacle course to evaluate a wearable collision warning device they developed for patients with peripheral vision loss. They found the device may help patients with a wide range of vision loss avoid collisions with high-level obstacles. Their findings are featured on Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (IOVS). "We developed this pocket-sized collision warning device, which can predict impending collisions based on time to collision rather than proximity. It gives warnings only when the users approach to … Continue reading

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Could you save Raj Bhuller's life? – #SwabForRaj – Video

Posted: Published on March 27th, 2015

Could you save Raj Bhuller's life? - #SwabForRaj In January 2015 our colleague, Raj Bhuller, was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, a rare form of blood cancer. His illness is curable, but he needs a stem cell transplant. Currently there... By: HSBC NOW … Continue reading

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Stem Cell Therapy For Multiple Sclerosis – Video

Posted: Published on March 27th, 2015

Stem Cell Therapy For Multiple Sclerosis Back for round 2. After treatment in 2014 Beverly had improvement in her energy level, balance, walking and had colors come into her vision for the first time in 10 years. Beverly went blind... By: Stem Cell Patient … Continue reading

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Stem Cell Treatment Programme TV Show Ad Film From Vibes By Krishna Ksihore Brand House Hyderabad – Video

Posted: Published on March 27th, 2015

Stem Cell Treatment Programme TV Show Ad Film From Vibes By Krishna Ksihore Brand House Hyderabad Ad Film Making Hyderabad, Ad Film Makers, Ad Film Production House in Hyderabad, Visakapatnam, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Chennai, Bangalore, Tv Commercial Ads, Corporate ... By: Brand House AdFilms … Continue reading

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UCI team gets $5 million to create stem cell treatment for Huntington's disease

Posted: Published on March 27th, 2015

Irvine, Calif., March 26, 2015 -- Leslie Thompson of the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center at UC Irvine has been awarded $5 million by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to continue her CIRM-funded effort to develop stem cell treatments for Huntington's disease. The grant supports her next step: identifying and testing stem cell-based treatments for HD, an inherited, incurable and fatal neurodegenerative disorder. In this project, Thompson and her colleagues will establish an HD therapy employing human embryonic stem cells that can be evaluated in clinical trials. Over the past seven years, Thompson, a UCI professor of psychiatry & human behavior and neurobiology & behavior, and her team have used CIRM funding to produce stem cell lines "reprogrammed" from the skin cells of individuals carrying the Huntington's genetic mutation in order to study the disease. In addition, they conducted basic and early-stage transitional studies to develop a stem cell-based technique to treat areas of the brain susceptible to HD. "These stem cells offer a possible long-term treatment approach that could relieve the tremendous suffering experienced by HD patients and their families," said Thompson, who's also affiliated with UCI's Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders (UCI … Continue reading

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On stem cell therapy, benefits

Posted: Published on March 27th, 2015

Bobby Chia (Foto by Allan Defensor) THERE is a lot of hype going on in some circles about stem cell therapy: Is it a cure-all? Is it the elusive fountain of youth? Wikipedia definesstem cell therapy as the use of stem cells to treat or prevent a disease or condition.The process involves the administration of live whole cells or maturation of a specific cell population in a patient for the treatment of the disease as has been done in bone marrow transplants. Bobby Chia, a Thai national who was in Cebu for a brief visit, said that stem cell therapy has been done in Villa Medica, Germany, since the 1960s. He learned about it 10 years ago when his mother had cancer and he looked around for the best medical care for her and found it in Villa Medica. It made her so much better (she can even play tennis now) that four years ago, Chia bought the clinic being run by Dr. Geoffrey Huertgen, a third generation doctor of that clinic. The stem cell can be taken from the patient himself, but Chia says this stem source is naturally as old as the patient himself. Villa Medica chooses to … Continue reading

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Lung Institute Announces New Treatment with Bone Marrow

Posted: Published on March 27th, 2015

Tampa, FL. (PRWEB) March 26, 2015 This month, the Lung Institute has started treating people suffering from chronic lung diseases with stem cells extracted from their bone marrow. This treatment protocol is added to the two other treatment options offered by the Lung Institute: venous (blood-derived) and adipose (fat-derived) stem cell therapy. The bone marrow and adipose treatments offer the highest concentration of stem cells and allow for the cells to be reintroduced directly into the lungs through a nebulizer. Given this added benefit, most patients in the past opted to receive the adipose treatment over venous. However, many patients have other medical conditions that preclude them from choosing the adipose treatment. Since the number of stem cells harvested from a bone marrow procedure matches that of the adipose procedure, patients that have previously only qualified for the venous procedure are now eligible for a treatment option that produces the highest chance of success. Patients are often surprised by the simplicity of these minimally invasive procedures, but with cutting-edge technology and the patient-centric clinical team at the Lung Institute, patients can rest assured that they are in good hands. Throughout the entire treatment process, patients have the opportunity to get … Continue reading

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VeriSeq PGS Clinical Applications: Francesco Fiorentino | Illumina Video – Video

Posted: Published on March 27th, 2015

VeriSeq PGS Clinical Applications: Francesco Fiorentino | Illumina Video Francesco Fiorentino, Director of Genoma Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Rome, Italy, discusses why he feels Preimplantation Genetic Screening (PGS) should be applied in every IVF treatment.... By: Illumina Inc … Continue reading

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What if the severity of our seasonal influenza were related to our genetic background?

Posted: Published on March 27th, 2015

While most of us recover from influenza after a week, it can be a very severe disease, and even fatal in rare cases, with no reason for physicians to have expected such an outcome. By analysing the genome of a little girl who contracted a severe form of influenza at the age of two and a half years, researchers at the Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases (a joint French-American international laboratory), which brings together researchers from Inserm, Paris Descartes University, and physicians from the Paris public hospitals (AP-HP; Necker Hospital for Sick Children), working at the Imagine Institute, and from The Rockefeller University in New York, have discovered that she has a genetic mutation, unknown until now, that causes a subtle dysfunction in her immune system. More generally, these results show that genetic mutations could be the root cause of some severe forms of influenza in children, and indicate in any event that immune mechanisms missing in this little girl are needed for protection against this virus in humans. These results are published in the journal Science. Seasonal influenza is an acute viral infection caused by the influenza virus. It is characterised by high fever, headaches, sore muscles, … Continue reading

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Let’s Play The Sims 3 – Perfect Genetics Challenge – Episode 61 – Video

Posted: Published on March 27th, 2015

Let's Play The Sims 3 - Perfect Genetics Challenge - Episode 61 Make sure to leave baby names in the comments!. #VampireClan #VampireClan4Life. By: vampiregirl101101101 … Continue reading

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