Stem Cell Blog

Key detailsThe question: Families who store their baby’s stem cells want to know how long frozen cells keep working. Well-established methods already exist for freezing and storing blood-forming and mesenchymal stem cells long term [1].The new finding: A study from...

Key detailsThe condition: Osteoarthritis affects around nine million people in the UK, and the knee is one of the joints most commonly affected – around one in five adults over 45 in England has knee osteoarthritis [1]. There is no cure, and current treatment manages...

Key detailsThe condition: Pre-eclampsia affects around one in 20 pregnancies worldwide and, together with foetal growth restriction, is a major cause of stillbirth and of illness in mothers and newborns [1, 2].The discovery: Cambridge scientists found that low levels...

Key details The condition: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a progressive scarring disease of the lungs that mainly affects older adults. Thousands of people are newly diagnosed in the UK each year, and studies of health records show the condition is becoming more...