wayne channon

About wayne channon

Wayne Channon, Director of Cells4Life Ltd, a stem cells and cord blood storage expert. They specialize in umbilical cord blood collection .

Adult stem cells to fix fractures

A new study presented in San Fransico in the United States of America by Froilan Granero-Molto has revealed that adult stem cells can help improve healing of broken bones and could eventually serve as a new treatment for the ten to twenty percent of...
Date Posted: July 04, 2008

Childhood leukaemia and the help of stem cells

The risk of any child developing leukaemia is roughly about only 1 in 2000 with more or less 400 to 450 new cases a year in the United Kingdom only. Cure rates approaching seventy five percents can be achieved with combination chemotherapy, but this...
Date Posted: May 16, 2008

Leukaemia, a diverse disease with variable clinical outcomes

It has long been recognised that childhood leukaemia is not one homogeneous disease. The major morphological division into acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and acute myeloblastic leukaemia is supplemented by the identification of a range of subsets...
Date Posted: February 12, 2008

Pigs to help us with diabetes

Given the current practical limitations of glucose monitoring and insulin delivery systems, in addition to the current shortage of cadaveric organs, an alternative source of cells that can sense blood glucose levels and respond by releasing...
Date Posted: January 23, 2008

Help of Stem cells for Liver injury

Allogeneic liver transplantation remains the only effective treatment available to patients with liver failure. Because of a serious shortage of liver donors, however, an alternative therapeutic approach is urgently needed.
Date Posted: December 05, 2007