"Muscular function declines with age. A new study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows how an unexpectedly high number of mutations in the stem cells of muscles impair cell regeneration. This discovery may result in new medication to build stronger muscles throughout aging."

"A groundbreaking clinical trial at Stanford Medical Center uses patients' own stem cells to regenerate cartilage in their knees."

"During the trial mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) were used to regrow missing cartilage in the knee of a young athlete. The athlete was able to resume the career as a personal trainer and have a pain-free life."

"Indian researchers are trying to understand the mystery of muscle related problems like Muscle Dystrophy, a progressive muscle disorder where muscles fail to recover after damage, using advances in stem cell science."

"A stem cell treatment could finally bring relief to millions of people with chronic lower back pain. If it works, the injection could become a crucial tool for curbing the opioid epidemic currently killing thousands in the US."

"As the world of stem cell research advances, more options may become available to patients with RA and other autoimmune diseases."

"A new way to repair damaged joints – using stem cells. It adds a surgery site, but the hope is it will reduce the rate of healing time. Check out Harold Kling’s journey."

"A year after her first stem cell treatment, Sarah has stopped her chemotherapy treatments and cut out almost all of her maintenance drugs. She has received several cycles of therapy, totaling 2.5 billion of her own stem cells since the initial treatment, and she will receive more in 2016. Her physicians will reevaluate Sarah in 2017 to see whether her immune system has learned to self-regulate after two years of stem cell therapy."

"A stem cell injection that could kill pain for more than a month has been tested by scientists.

Many people suffering from chronic pain caused by the nerve damage of type 2 diabetes, surgical amputation, chemotherapy and other conditions find current painkillers have little or only short term effect."

"A team of scientists, led by Drs. Gordon Keller and April Craft from the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine in Toronto has been able to generate articular chondrocytes and cartilage tissue from human pluripotent stem cells in a Petri dish."

"A $10,000 experimental medical procedure has helped saved the careers of two NSW players. Stem cells placed into the knees of Trent Hodkinson and Aaron Woods have helped resurrect their careers and has allowed them to leap into the representative arena. They both had severe knee problems which could have forced them into early retirement. Hodkinson had the procedure in 2012, Woods at the end of last season."