Looking Beyond Everyday Knee Pain Knee osteoarthritis can turn simple activities like walking, climbing stairs, or getting out of a chair into uncomfortable tasks. While cartilage changes are part of the condition, inflammation inside the joint can also play an important role in pain and stiffness. A recent randomized clinical trial explored whether umbilical cord-derived…
When Knee Pain Starts Getting in the Way Knee osteoarthritis can make simple things feel a lot harder than they should. Walking upstairs, exercising, standing for long periods, or even getting up from a chair can become uncomfortable as the joint gets stiffer and more painful over time. That’s why researchers continue to look for…
Exploring a Different Approach to Multiple Sclerosis Multiple sclerosis, or MS, is a condition in which inflammation and abnormal immune activity damage the brain, spinal cord, and nerves over time. Current treatments can help control relapses and slow progression, but researchers continue to explore new approaches that may also support the body's natural repair processes.…
Protecting the Insulin the Body Can Still Make Type 1 diabetes develops when the immune system attacks the pancreatic beta cells responsible for producing insulin. By the time someone is diagnosed, many of these cells have already been lost, but some insulin-producing ability may still remain. Protecting that remaining function could potentially help slow the…
Looking at Recovery Years Later For some people who experienced severe COVID-19, recovery continued long after leaving the hospital. A 2025 study followed patients for three years after treatment with umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells, or UC-MSCs, to see how they were doing over the long term. The study focused not only on possible benefits,…
When the Immune System Targets Platelets Platelets may be tiny, but they play an essential role in helping the blood clot and preventing excessive bleeding. In people with immune thrombocytopenia, or ITP, the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys platelets faster than the body can replace them. When platelet levels become very low, patients may…
Not All Stem Cells Behave Exactly the Same When we talk about umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stromal cells, or UC-MSCs, it can be easy to think of them as one uniform type of cell. In reality, cells collected from different umbilical cords can behave differently in the laboratory. Some may grow faster, while others may be…
Tiny Messengers With Big Potential Healthy skin is constantly repairing, renewing, and adapting. Behind the scenes, skin cells communicate through biological signals that help coordinate many of these processes. One area gaining attention in regenerative medicine involves small extracellular vesicles, or sEVs. These tiny particles are released by cells and carry proteins and other biological…
Mesenchymal stem cells have proved to be one of the most promising stem cell types for regenerative medicine. A recent review has compiled information from studies looking specifically at how these stem cells can be used for regenerative cell therapies. According to the authors of this review, as part of the effort to characterize mesenchymal…
As the name suggests, neurodegenerative diseases are a disease of the nervous system in which nerve cells (i.e. neurons) become dysfunctional and die. As more nerve cells die, certain brain functions slow, change or stop. Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are examples of debilitating and even fatal neurodegenerative diseases.…
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