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Nevada Pain, the top pain management clinics in Las Vegas and Henderson areas, are now offering stem cell therapy to help patients delay or avoid the need for joint replacement. The treatments are cutting edge, outpatient, and highly effective. Call (702) 323-0553 for more information and scheduling.

Stem cell therapy for joint arthritis has rapidly become mainstream due to its effectiveness for pain relief. Unlike traditional treatments, the regenerative medicine therapies actually have the potential to change the course of arthritis rather than simply provide a proverbial "band aid" to the condition.

The stem cell treatments are provided by Board Certified, Fellowship Trained pain doctors who have extensive experience with the procedures into all extremity joints including the hip, knee, shoulder and ankle. There are multiple types of stem cell treatments. Some involve amniotic fluid derived treatment, which contains an immense amount of stem cells, growth factors, hyaluronic acid and anti-inflammatory mediators as well.

Bone marrow derived treatment is also available, which also contains an immense amount of stem cells and growth factors. The treatments are provided as an outpatient, and often provide pain relief and functional improvement.

Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy is also offered, which involves a simple blood draw. The platelets are then concentrated and immediately injected into the problem area.

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Are Genetically Modified Foods Safe to Eat? (Science of Genetic Engineering)
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45 minutes ago by Robert Sanders The bacterial enzyme Cas9 is the engine of RNA-programmed genome engineering in human cells. Credit: Jennifer Doudna/UC Berkeley

A group of 18 scientists and ethicists today warned that a revolutionary new tool to cut and splice DNA should be used cautiously when attempting to fix human genetic disease, and strongly discouraged any attempts at making changes to the human genome that could be passed on to offspring.

Among the authors of this warning is Jennifer Doudna, the co-inventor of the technology, called CRISPR-Cas9, which is driving a new interest in gene therapy, or "genome engineering." She and colleagues co-authored a perspective piece that appears in the March 20 issue of Science, based on discussions at a meeting that took place in Napa on Jan. 24. The same issue of Science features a collection of recent research papers, commentary and news articles on CRISPR and its implications.

"Given the speed with which the genome engineering field is evolving, our group concluded that there is an urgent need for open discussion of the merits and risks of human genome modification by a broad cohort of scientists, clinicians, social scientists, the general public and relevant public entities and interest groups," the authors wrote.

Doudna, director of UC Berkeley's Innovative Genomics Initiative, was joined by five current and two former UC Berkeley scientists, plus David Baltimore, a Nobel laureate and president emeritus of the California Institute of Technology, Stanford Nobelist Paul Berg and eminent scientists from UC San Francisco, Stanford, Harvard and the universities of Wisconsin and Utah. Several of these scientists are currently involved in gene therapy to cure inherited diseases.

Latest of many warnings

Such warnings have been issued numerous times since the dawn of genetic engineering in 1975, but until now the technology to actually fix genetic defects was hard to use.

"However, this limitation has been upended recently by the rapid development and widespread adoption of a simple, inexpensive and remarkably effective genome engineering method known as CRISPR-Cas9," the scientists wrote. "The simplicity of the CRISPR-Cas9 system enables any researcher with knowledge of molecular biology to modify genomes, making feasible many experiments that were previously difficult or impossible to conduct."

Correcting genetic defects

Scientists today are changing DNA sequences to correct genetic defects in animals as well as cultured tissues generated from stem cells, strategies that could eventually be used to treat human disease. The technology can also be used to engineer animals with genetic diseases mimicking human disease, which could lead to new insights into previously enigmatic disorders.

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Scientists have found that genetic changes in bowel tumors are linked to the way the body's immune system responds to the cancer, according to research published in the journal Oncoimmunology.

For the first time, Cancer Research UK researchers at the University of Birmingham have found that certain genetic flaws in bowel cancer are more likely to trigger an immune response at the site of tumors, meaning that treatments to boost this immune response further could potentially be helpful for these patients.

Finding out what's happening in a cancer patient's immune system can be difficult and takes time. These findings suggest that genetic profiles of patients' tumors could be used as an easy and fast way of diagnosing whether they are suitable for immunotherapy treatments, and if so which ones.

Cancer Research UK's FOCUS4 trial is already using the genetics of bowel cancer to offer patients stratified medicine and this study suggests that we could further expand this work to include immunotherapies.

Gary Middleton, Professor of Medical Oncology at the School of Cancer Sciences at the University of Birmingham, said: "The field of immunotherapy is gaining lots of momentum and this study shows a new finding for bowel cancer. We are already using genetic profiling for stratified medicine in bowel cancer in the FOCUS4 trial. But this research indicates that we could marry immunotherapy with the work we are already doing to personalize treatment even more."

Researchers used The Cancer Genomic Atlas, a large database, to study this relationship. From this research, scientists can now start looking at what causes a weak immune response and in the future, could target drugs to switch off the immune suppression associated with certain genetic mutations.

Nell Barrie, senior science communication manager at Cancer Research UK, said: "This study shows a strong association between certain genetic profiles and immune responses, but we don't yet fully understand this link. Further research to investigate the fundamentals behind different immune responses could open new doors in drug development."

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It isn't that often that a scientific controversy is featured in the New Yorker, but in 2012 an article titled "Kin and Kind" (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/03/05/kin-kind) describing a tempest over a biological theory appeared in its pages.

The tempest was provoked by an article in the Aug. 26, 2010 issue of Nature. Written by Harvard mathematicians Martin A. Nowak and Corina E. Tarnita and Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson, it questioned the validity of the theory of inclusive fitness.

Inclusive fitness theory, proposed by British biologist W. D. Hamilton in 1964, expanded Darwin's definition of "fitness" -- an organism's success in passing on its genes -- to include the genes of its relatives. This expansion made altruism in the service of kin a competitive strategy.

The Nature article, titled "The Evolution of Eusociality," asserted that inclusive fitness theory, which has been a cornerstone of evolutionary biology for the past 50 years, had produced only "meagre" results and that mathematical models based on standard natural selection theory provide a "simpler and superior approach."

This provoked a prolonged argument among evolutionary biologists that is still not resolved. But in the March 31 issue of PLOS Biology David C. Queller, PhD, a well-known evolutionary biologist at Washington University in St. Louis, suggests a way out of the impasse.

Queller, the Spencer T. Olin Professor in the Department of Biology, and his co-authors Stephen Rong, who graduated from Washington University with a bachelor's degree in math and is now a graduate student at Brown University, and Xiaoyun Liao, a former research assistant at Rice University with expertise in mathematical modeling, adopted the model the Harvard writers had proposed as an alternative to inclusive fitness and tested it to see whether it supported the claims the authors made in the Nature paper.

It didn't. "They had a modeling strategy that should work and should be fine, but they weren't careful enough when they made claims about their models' novel results," Queller said. But he also argued that the two mathematical models are essentially equivalent in that they ultimately predict the same results.

Inclusive fitness and social insects

Inclusive fitness was originally developed to explain eusociality, a extreme form of altruism found in social insects, where non-reproducing colony members give up their right to reproduce and devote their lives to caring for the offspring of a single reproducing member.

Hamilton's inclusive fitness theory was invented to solve this paradox, which vexed even Darwin. Hamilton calculated that sterile castes could evolve if altruistic sterility sufficiently benefited relatives also carrying the altruistic gene.

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A history of psychedelic drug use is associated with less psychological distress and fewer suicidal thoughts, planning, and attempts, according to new research from Johns Hopkins and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have successfully corrected a genetic error in stem cells from patients with sickle cell disease, then used those cells to grow mature red blood cells.

When and why do physicians prescribe costlier brand-name drugs when generic ones are available? Thats the question the Food and Drug Administration has put to a Johns Hopkins team, which has been tapped to conduct a two-year study that will analyze factors that determine underuse of generic drugs.

Even though the ORC protein machinery is crucial to life, we didnt know much about how it works, says James Berger, Ph.D. By learning what it looks like, down to the arrangement of each atom, we can get a sense of where it interacts with DNA and how it does its job.

At noon on Friday, March 20, fourth-year medical students from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and all across the country learned where they will begin residency programs this summer. Meet five remarkable medical students and learn what brought them to call Johns Hopkins their home.

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Researcher Hongjun Song introduces the Stem Cell Biology Program, where scientists get an up-close look at diseases by making stem cells with patients' DNA and growing affected cell types in the lab.

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WSCS 2014: DATA ANALYSIS NEEDS IN REGENERATIVE MEDICINE (SUPPORTED BY BIOSCIENCE TECHNOLOGY)
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Those hospitals and medical institutions advertising treatment of incurable diseases with stems cells are now under scanner of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

The ministry has already processed complaints against at least 23 website advertisements.

The National Apex Committee for Stem Cell Research and Therapy (NACSCRT), under the Indian Council of Medical Research, has looped in Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) to monitor advertisements that claim to fully cure patients with stem cell based therapies.

Several clinics and organisations advertise stem cell therapies whose safety and efficacy are not proven, to attract vulnerable patients. As per the National Guidelines for Stem Cell Research 2013, stem cell therapy has not been proven effective other than in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) for haematological disorders (disorders which primarily affect the blood).

NAC-SCRT has observed that several clinicians, companies, hospitals advertise stem cell based therapies other than haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for haematological disorders on their websites. Officials clearly say that these therapies are currently investigational and must be conducted only within the scope of clinical trials.

Dr. Alok Srivastava, Chairman, NAC-SCRT said, "Advertisements claiming to offer stem cell-based therapies other than Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantations for blood diseases are in violation of the clause 10.3.1 of the National Guidelines for Stem Cell Research-2013."

"Use of stem cells for any other purpose outside the ambit of clinical trials will be against these guidelines and is hence not permissible. We have asked ASCI to review such advertisements and are happy that action has been initiated against 23 such websites. It is necessary that such misleading advertisements be removed and action be taken against the defaulters unless they are suitably modified to clarify the unproven nature of these therapies and are only offered within approved clinical trials. The NAC-SCRT will be reviewing the developments in the field and modifying its position with regard to proven therapies from time to time," he added.

As stem cell-based therapies are currently experimental, advertising these for results not approved by regulatory authorities is in violation of Chapter III of the ASCI code for Self-Regulation of Advertisements. "The code requires that advertisements should not propagate products or services, the use of which is banned under the law," said Narendra Ambwani, Chairman, ASCI.

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The pioneering treatment involves cells taken from a patients own body Theseare then reinjected into their heart to repair damaged muscle Could improve quality of life for patients suffering from heart failure This is caused by heart failing to pump enough blood around the body at the right pressure

By Roger Dobson and Katherine Keogh For The Mail On Sunday

Published: 17:16 EST, 21 March 2015 | Updated: 18:15 EST, 21 March 2015

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A pioneering treatment that uses stem cells to repair a broken heart could transform the lives of people with a potentially fatal cardiac condition.

The 15-minute procedure involves cells taken from a patients own body, which are then reinjected into their heart to repair damaged muscle.

It is hoped that the procedure could improve the quality of life for patients suffering from heart failure, which affects 900,000 people in the UK.

The condition is caused by the heart failing to pump enough blood around the body at the right pressure, because the muscle has become too weak or stiff to work properly. It causes breathlessness and extreme tiredness, and can even lead to sudden death.

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A student who gave the gift of life today urged more people to become bone marrow donors.

Matthew Bowker thought nothing about donating his bone marrow when it turned out he was a match to a patient desperately in need of help.

Matthew, a second year medical student at Newcastle University, agreed to undergo the donation procedure, and has never looked back since.

He said: It was all incredibly simple and I cant speak highly enough about the staff at Anthony Nolan who supported me throughout.

Anthony Nolan is the blood cancer charity behind the worlds first bone marrow donor register.

The organisation has now signed-up to support this summers British Transplant Games, which will take place at venues across the North East between July 30 and August 2.

Matthew, 23, said: For four days in a row, I had a nurse come round and give me a simple injection and then I went to London where I was attached to a machine which then took some stem cells. And that was it.

Matthew believes more people should sign the register in order to help.

Anthony Nolan has launched the Marrow year this academic year, announcing that one in five donors are recruited at universities.

This is because the students are perfect recruitment age and in general are young, fit, healthy people.

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The birth and engraftment of a blood stem cell | Boston Children's Hospital

When a patient receives a bone marrow transplant, the transplanted blood stem cells find their home, begin dividing and establish themselves in the body much like natural blood stem cells do. This zebrafish animation illustrates findings from the Stem Cell Research Program at Boston Children's Hospital that reveal this natural process for the first time, providing clues that will help scientists improve bone marrow transplants. Leonard Zon, MD, and colleagues published their full findings in the January 15, 2015 issue of Cell. Learn more: January 15, 2015 issue of Cell:

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Adoptive Cell Therapy, Patient Perspective - Melinda Bachini
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