Cord blood for articular injury

View this message online Hello manoj kumar valluru, An interesting patent, # 7,459,307, was issued last week covering the use of cord blood stem cells together with biodegradable scaffolds for treatment of cartilage injury.  Vet-Stem has created a profitable business through using autologous fat for treatment of similar conditions.  This will be an interesting area to watch, especially for high-performance athletes. Another patent, #7,462,602, covers the use of ribozymes for inhibition of scar tissue formation.  The ribozymes target connective tissue growth factor (CTGF). In the news, the first time in the world, autologous stem cells were administered via the intracoronary route to a 2-year old patient with heart failure caused by dilated cardiomyopathy.      Composition for treatment of articular cartilage damage     Patent Number: 7,459,307 Assignee | Inventor Cord blood derived stem cells represent a potent source of young, pluripotent, cells.  Although previously their use was restricted to hematological malignancies, newer studies have demonstrated cord blood cells may be useful for many regenerative purposes, such as Ethicon's patent #7,413,734 which teaches...[Read More] Ask a question OR leave your comments.     Cardiac Stem Cell Therapy in 2 Year Old Monday December 15th, 2008 @ 22:09:43 EST Giessen, Germany - Adult stem cell therapy has previously been used for heart failure, primarily in acute post-infarct situations.  In a very interesting paper (Rupp et al. Intracoronary administration of autologous bone marrow-derived progenitor cells in a critically ill two-yr-old child with dilated cardiomyopathy...[Read More] Ask a question OR leave your comments. Read more StemCellPatents.com News       The 3rd Annual Stem Cells World Congress (20-22 January 2009) The Stem Cell Meeting (March 2009)     NEWS - WHAT'S GETTING ATTENTION?     Interferon gamma as a "danger signal" | 1 Comment(s)     RECENTLY ADDED PATENTS     Anti-scarring ribozymes and methods (7,462,602) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Composition for treatment of articular cartilage damage (7,459,307) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Matrix-targeted fusion polypeptides for tissue regeneration and wound healing (7,459,541) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Erythropoietin administration to improve graft survival (7,459,152) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Transgenic non-human mammals as models for human pathologies of stem cell origin (7,456,333) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Medium for growing human embryonic stem cells (7,455,983) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Method for preparing cell fraction containing hemangioblasts (7,455,962) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Direct differentiation method for making cardiomyocytes from human embryonic stem cells (7,452,718) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Transluminal application of adult stem cells for body organ tissue repair (7,452,532) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Treatment of muscular dystrophy with cord blood cells (7,452,529) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     View all 1365 Stem Cell Patents on StemCellPatents.com     LATEST NEWS     Cardiac Stem Cell Therapy in 2 Year Old 16 hours ago     Possible Prostate Cancer Stem Cell December 7th     Stressed Mesenchymals Make More IGF-1 November 30th     Fat Stem Cells Against Brain Damage November 23rd     Caloric Restriction Stimulates Angiogenesis Through Adiponectin November 16th     Read more news on StemCellPatents.com     LATEST JOBS POSTS     View the StemCellPatents.com Job Board   Thanks again for your help in supporting StemCellPatents.com. We welcome your comments and suggestions! Tell us here. Media Partnerships (NEW) NEW - (BETA) Now you can send our newsletters to your friends and colleagues using our quick and easy send-to-a-friend feature (BETA). ------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, click here. Delivered: Tuesday December 16th, 2008 @ 14:25:23 EST