"Induction of endogenous adult stem cells by administering soluble molecules provides an advantageous approach for tissue damage repair, which could be a clinically applicable and cost-effective alternative to transplantation of embryonic or pluripotent stem cell-derived tissues for the treatment of acute organ failures."

"A team of researchers with Kyoto University and Kagawa University, both in Japan, has cured renal anemia in mice by injecting them with treated human stem cells. In their paper published in Science Translational Medicine, the group describes their approach and how well it worked."

"NHS Blood and Transplant is to grow stromal stem cells to create around 800 million cells ready for use in patients. Stromal stem cells can differentiate into a variety of cell types such as bone cells, cartilage cells and fat cells. In the case of diabetic kidney disease, the stem cells are thought to work by reducing inflammation in the kidney."

"Two teams of researchers have grown rudimentary organs from stem cells: a primitive kidney and the beginnings of an intestine. The two announcements show important progress in regenerative medicine and begin to answer one of the promises made by stem cell researchers — that powerful cells might be used for grow-your-own organ transplants."

"Growing human organs in a laboratory might sound like something straight out of a 1950s science fiction movie, but scientists at Maine Medical Center’s Research Institute have received a $6.8 million federal grant for potentially groundbreaking research that they hope will result in ways to use adult stem cells to grow kidneys."

"For the first time, scientists have restored organ function in a severely damaged liver in a live animal by transplanting lab-grown stem cells. The achievement brings closer the day when cell-based therapies that regenerate the organ replace the need for liver transplants."

"Liver disease is extremely difficult to treat. It can result from both genetic and environmental factors, including a poor diet or excess alcohol use. When there is severe damage to the liver, one of the only viable options is partial or full transplants. However this isn't always easy as there is an extreme lack of donor organs. Additionally, all organ transplants come with a difficult set of risks and side effects."

"It’s one thing to get a stem cell to turn into something that closely resembles another kind of cell, say a heart cell. But it’s another thing altogether to get it to change into a cell that not only resembles another cell, but acts exactly like it too. That’s what CIRM-funded researchers at the Gladstone Institutes have done with liver cells."