OSAKA, Japan — In a remarkable medical breakthrough, doctors have successfully used stem cells to treat a debilitating eye condition that can lead to vision loss. The world-first procedure ...

Multiple babies have been born after receiving the world’s first spina bifida treatment combining surgery with stem cells. This was made possible by a landmark clinical trial at UC Davis Health.

Surgery like this can lead to more problems in the future and there is no guarantee that it will cure the pain or improve function. Now a new stem cell treatment is being evaluated in a Phase 3 ...

‘Mononuclear’ cells (cells with one nucleus ... work had been done to allow the transplant to go ahead. However, the surgery was approved by regulators in the U.K. and in Spain.

Study: Induced pluripotent stem-cell-derived corneal epithelium for transplant surgery: a single-arm, open-label, first-in-human interventional study in Japan In a recent study published in The ...

The first study comparing surgery to active monitoring as treatment for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) finds women who carefully monitor the precancerous cells are no more likely to develop breast ...

More information: Takeshi Soma et al, Induced pluripotent stem-cell-derived corneal epithelium for transplant surgery: a single-arm, open-label, first-in-human interventional study in Japan ...

Having to guess where to stop cutting is one reason that tumor surgery using traditional methods may leave cancer cells behind, according to Xu — raising the risk that the tumor will recur.