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The Role of CD56 During Invasive Aspergillosis
Aspergillus (A.) fumigatus is a species of mold that is found ubiquitously in nature and the inhalation of its spores by healthy adults is a common occurrence having a relatively harmless effect. However, for immunosuppressed patients suffering from hematological malignancies or undergoing hematopoietic stem cell or solid organ transplantation, this species of mold is responsible for invasive aspergillosis (IA), an infection that spreads to the blood vessels and into organs. Prognosis for IA is poor, with a mortality rate ranging from 60-90%…
SACRAMENTO BUSINESS JOURNAL INTERVIEW WITH CATE DYER
Cate Dyer CEO & Founder of StemExpress A local journalist talks with StemExpress CEO, Cate Dyer, about the importance of her company’s mission to accelerate research and what that means for the future of patient care and the development of new treatments. Read the Article
Regenerative Medicine – Overcoming Regulatory Barriers
Regulatory barriers often inhibit the timely delivery of cutting-edge cellular therapeutics to patients burdened with chronic diseases and disabilities. The Bipartisan Policy Center and Regenerative Medicine Foundation are trying to change this by recommending that Congress support a federally funded registry for regenerative cell therapies. This registry would help share the outcomes of potentially curative therapies so that the general public, clinicians, and researchers are able to learn from shared data. This would help inform decision-making and ultimately help accelerate the development…
LUNG CANCER PROJECT
The ever-present goal of the StemExpress Foundation is to improve the lives and outcomes of patients with all kinds of diseases. To that end, we are excited to be participating in a new lung cancer project! Researchers have created a new diagnostic tool to detect lung cancer earlier and in a less invasive way than traditional biopsies. In order to make this new screening available to the public, these scientists need small samples of blood from people with lung cancer so that…
SHARE YOUR STORY
What do you wish people knew about your condition? Illness and disease affect our lives in so many different ways, and no two experiences are the same. You could write about how you or a loved one has been affected by disease, why you chose to participate in medical research, or what you hope will be cured in the future. If you want to share your story with us, but do not want it published on the StemExpress Foundation Blog, just let…
WHAT THE FOUNDATION IS DOING IN OUR COMMUNITY
The StemExpress Foundation is supporting the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society at the Light the Night Walk, November fourth in Sacramento, CA. LLS is an incredible organization which provides hope and resources to people living with blood cancer across the United States, and supports research to end Leukemia and Lymphoma. Each Fall LLS holds the Light the Night Walk where those affected by Leukemia and Lymphoma come together after dark and take lanterns to the streets to spread awareness and show solidarity with…
CGT Global Folsom Celebrates One Year Anniversary
It’s been one year since StemExpress moved our laboratory headquarters from Placerville to Folsom, CA. Our new state-of-the-art facility has enabled us to increase production and meet the growing needs of our clients. We thank our dedicated staff, the community of Folsom, and our clients for making the past year a successful one.
Directed differentiation of human bone marrow MSCs to functional Schwann cells
The peripheral nervous system (PNS) comprises many complex cell types that work together to transmit electrical signals from the body’s sensory receptors to the central nervous system (CNS) and vice versa. Peripheral nerve cells relay the electrical signals through the long, thin part of the cell called an axon. Schwann cells create nodes of myelin sheath around the axon called nodes of Ranvier. Between each node is a break essential for increasing the speed of which the electrical signal travels between distant…
Treating the side effects of chemotherapy
The human body has many lines of defense against infection, keeping us healthy and free of disease. One immediate line of defense is the innate immune system, which is comprised of white blood cells that are ready to fight against bacterial or fungal infection at birth. One of the most numerous and important cells of the innate immune system is phagocytic granulocytes or neutrophils. These cells spend most of their lives circulating in the peripheral blood, but once stimulated by a sequence…
How CAR-T cell therapy works
On August 30, 2017, the FDA approved the first US CAR-T cell therapy for the treatment of ALL patients. According to FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb, “We’re entering a new frontier in medical innovation with the ability to reprogram a patient’s own cells to attack a deadly cancer.” Check out this brief video about how CAR-T cell therapy works. At StemExpress we offer human blood products such as whole blood and Leukopaks as well as peripheral blood CD3+, CD4+, and CD8+ T cells. Purified primary CD3+, CD4+, and…