Stem Cell Therapy Market (Autologous & Allogeneic) Worth $330 Million in 2020 – New Report by MarketsandMarkets

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The report Stem Cell Therapy Market by Treatment Mode (Autologous & Allogeneic), Therapeutic Applications (CNS, CVS, GIT, Wound Healing, Musculoskeletal, Eye, & Immune System) - Regulatory Landscape, Pipeline Analysis & Global Forecasts to 2020 analyzes and studies the major market drivers, restraints, opportunities, and challenges in North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Rest of the World (RoW).

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This report studies the global stem cell therapy market over the forecast period of 2015 to 2020.The market is poised to grow at a CAGR of 39.5% from 2015 to 2020, to reach $330million by 2020.

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The global stem cell therapy market on the basis of the mode of treatment is segmented into allogeneic and autologous stem cell therapy. In addition, based on the therapeutic applications, the global stem cell therapy market is segmented into eye diseases, metabolic diseases, GIT diseases, musculoskeletal disorders, immune system diseases, CNS diseases, CVS diseases, wounds and injuries, and others.

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A number of factors such as the increasing funding from various government and private organizations, growing industry focus on stem cell research, and increasing global awareness about stem cell therapies through various organizations are stimulating the research activities for stem cell therapies. Developing markets, emergence of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells as an alternative to embryonic stem cells (ESCs), and evolution of new stem cell therapies represent high growth opportunities for market players.

In 2015, North America will hold the largest share of the global stem cell therapy market. This large share is primarily attributed to the extensive government funding and increasing fast-track approval for stem cell therapeutics by the FDA. Moreover, development of advanced genomic methods for stem cell analysis and high number of ongoing research activities are further fueling the growth of the stem cell therapy market in North America. However, the Asia-Pacific stem cell therapy market is expected to grow at the highest CAGR in the forecast period, owing to factors such as increasing regulatory support through favorable government policies, strong product pipelines, and increasing licensing activities in this region.

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Public warned of fly-by-night stem cell procedures, products

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Human embryonic stem cells can become any cell in the body. AFP FILE PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines Health authorities warned the public anew on Saturday about health facilities and medical practitioners offering unauthorized stem cell therapy and products.

In an advisory, the Food and Drug Administration said that to date, not one stem cell or human cells, tissues, and cellular and tissue-based products (HCT/Ps) that applied for registration has been registered by the FDA for compassionate or clinical trial use, or general use.

The use of HCT/Ps without the authorization or permission by the FDA is considered illegal, it said, reminding hospitals and health facilities of the provisions of the FDA Act of 2009, which prohibits the manufacture, use, advertisement or sponsorship of unregistered health products.

This warning extends to all unlicensed practitioners from other countries and to tourists who visit the Philippines for leisure and medical needs, the advisory added.

According to FDA acting director general Kenneth Hartigan Go, the FDA recognizes only hematopoietic (pertaining to the formation and development of blood cells) stem cell transplantation, corneal resurfacing with limbal stem cells and skin regeneration with epidermal stem cells as generally accepted standards of health care procedures.

If health institutions are doing these three procedures, they can continue doing them because those are allowed. Go said, adding that the efficacy of the use of stem cells for the treatment of other diseases, such as diabetes, cancer and autism, among others, has yet to be proven.

Go noted that while many spa centers and salons are advertising stem cell therapy and products, none of them has the approval of the health agency.

As of now we have not accredited any health facility offering stem cell therapy yet, Go said.

Several facilities had applied for accreditation but Go said many of these were asked to correct their deficiencies.

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Stem Therapy May Improve Survival of Heart Patients

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A new review of previous scientific studies has concluded that stem cell therapy may help reduce the number of deaths in heart patients.

The Cochrane Heart Review Group analyzed data from studies involving just over 1,200 patients in 23 randomized, controlled trials.

The group's report on the potential benefits of stem cell heart repair was published online on April 29 in The Cochrane Library. The Cochrane Reviews are systematic assessments of evidence-based research into human health care and health policy.

There were fewer deaths among heart patients receiving stem cell therapy in addition to standard treatment, compared to patients who were treated with traditional therapies alone or with a placebo. Stem cells are primitive master cells that, under the right conditions, can turn into any cell in the body.

The therapy also reduced the chances that patients, with improved heart function, had to be readmitted to the hospital.

The review noted that stem cell therapy could possibly reduce the number of deaths after one year, but the results of larger clinical trials are needed.

The stem cells are taken from a patients own bone marrow and injected into the hearts of patients with ischemic heart disease and congestive heart failure, repairing damaged cardiac tissue.

Dr. Enca Martin-Rendon, author of the review in Britain, said, This is encouraging evidence that stem cell therapy has benefits for heart disease patients. However, Martin-Rendon noted it is difficult to come to any concrete conclusions until larger clinical trials are carried out.

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Autumn Asphodel | Mental Health, Transgender / Transsexual, Philosophy, Spirituality, & More – Video

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Leonor Anthony focuses on her art, spirituality

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After decades of devotion to lunchboxes, teacher meetings and driving lessons, artist Leonor Anthony now focuses on her spirituality, her education and her art.

Exhibited worldwide today, her pieces reflect her life experience, passion, and personal growth, demonstrating that art does indeed imitate life. Anthony was born in Cuba. Her family relocated to Miami while she was still a young child.

Growing up, she was far more interested in climbing trees, kicking soccer balls and drawing on everything she could get her hands on as long as she had a pencil to draw.

Her family encouraged her to participate in Miss Latin USA beauty pageant at the age of 17. She won this, her first and only beauty pageant.

Yet this accomplishment did have an effect. It was a life changing experience. She spent a year touring many Latin American countries and met people from a variety of cultures. This gave birth to an already internal passion to express her vision, her philanthropic love for humanity through her art. Her art is totally an expression of her life that she has touched and that has touched her.

Since then, Anthony has never let boundaries of culture, family or those set by herself affect her dreams and ambitions.

Her perseverance and motivation surpassed the everyday schedule of raising three children. She successfully persevered in her career as an actor/model in 2004. She performed in movies like Wild Things (1998), Amos and Andrew (1993) and Confetti (1996) among others.

When her youngest children (twin girls) started to drive, she found more time for her artwork.

Anthony threw herself into developing as an artist, studying technique, painting prolifically, defining her own style and gaining more education.

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Rowing is a network of spiritual kinship

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It is quiet out here on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia at 5:30 a.m. The sun is just beginning to rise above the trees. The rhythmic slicing of oars in and out of the water from magna-cum-serious rowers in sleek shells breaks the still of silence. I am in the Temple University crew coach's boat ripping alongside the heavyweight eight boat. Gavin White is barking coaching advice to his team through a bullhorn. Me? I'm searching beyond the physical dimensions of the sport, to understand more about its spiritual components, because, in my way of thinking, rowing is imbued with definite spiritual overtones.

The athletes are digging into the depths of their souls to surmount the suffering of the physical challenge -- the exhaustive anaerobic effort, the hard burn of muscles, the rough, choppy current, the cold, windy weather, all of which can drive even the most determined hearts and minds into surrender. But these rowers don't quit. The dissonance of the suffering finds consonance in the love of the sport. They share a communion with the water. Like baptism, the water is cleansing, the forgiving part of a tough, physically hard journey.

The training session is over in 90 minutes. A rower for Temple in the early 1980s, Charlie Bracken, said rowing can change the perception of life, the same change in perception discovered from watching a sunset by the sea or smelling a fresh rose. Philosophers call such enlightenment "qualia" a term that alludes to an inner quality of experience.

In life on the water, rowers must forget that they are individuals, but instead recognize at once they must be a collective amalgam of muscles and bones with a consciousness of faith and trust in each other. This reach for perfect simpatico cannot be achieved by applied mathematics, but by the light of the heart.

It is the only way that rowers are able to never waiver in their feelings of love for their sport, for the water, for their teammates. This creed sticks to their souls like a first kiss sticks to their lips, for rowing embraces the sacred, the transcendent and the faith.

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Rowing is more than sport; it is a network of kinship. Catholics are taught from a very young age to stand in a sacred kinship with their bloodlines, those things that help to tie us together, and, yes, save us: a death in the family, a marriage ceremony, the honest faith and zeal of a parish priest, the birth and baptism of children, high school reunions, and, most of all, love and loyalty to family. All these waves of kinship are as contagious as the traditions they have built.

With rowers, kinship is evident more than in any other sport. Sweeping always into their conversations are stories of moms and dads, grandmoms and granddads who have gone before them in this sport. In a culture that reveres youth -- and staying young -- sometimes our young can have the sensitivity of sandpaper when it comes to their elders. The sport of rowing rejoices in its renewal of the past and the present circling back upon each generation to find the sacredness of connections to each other and to themselves. It brings about a sense of place and belonging. It brings about sacred kinship.

A popular quote puts it best: "Prayer works when all else fails." The best attempts of materialists through the centuries have failed to reduce the irreducible power of prayer. These days so many athletes in other sports -- baseball, football, basketball, tennis, golf -- pursue with wrong-pointed passion the meretricious rewards of money, glory and power. Often this pursuit results in perditions of the soul, and often these athletes find themselves at a terminus where nothing is left but emptiness, a kind of precipice with nothing out there but a fall.

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Ireland’s first secondary school experiment in space: Final Space Experiment – Video

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New Animated Series Space Racers Launches Nationwide with Technical Consulting from NASA

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Maryland Public Television (MPT), the presenting station forSpace Racers, is pleased to announce the official launch of this new, educational animated series with technical consulting from NASA. Early reports indicate a majority of public television stations have expressed interest in airingSpace Racersin the coming months. Public television stations in the top markets that will be airing Space Racers starting in May include:Los Angeles(KCET, KVCR),Dallas(KERA),Washington D.C./Baltimore(MPT),Houston(Houston Public Media, TV 8),Detroit(WTVS, Detroit Public TV),Seattle(KCTS 9),Miami(WRLN Channel 17),Denver(Rocky Mountain PBS),Orlando(WEFS-TV),Pittsburgh(WQED),Salt Lake City(KUED),West Palm Beach(WXEL PBS For the Palm Beaches),Charlotte/South Carolina(ETV),Alabama(APT),Norfolk(WHRO),Arkansas(AETN),New Orleans(WLAE),Providence(WSBE) and many more. If your state is not included, contact your localpublic television stationto find out when it will air in your area.

The officialSpace Racerswebsite,www.SpaceRacers.org, created by WNET in conjunction with Siite, recently launched and includes out-of-this-world features like videos, space games and tools for little scientists to explore the solar system. An exclusive section for parents and educators encompasses family activities and lesson plans based on an early-childhood STEM curriculum. Educational materials created specifically for use in local classrooms will be available on the site.

Science Museums and NASA Visitor Centers around the country will host screening events to celebrate the premiere and support the series launch locally.The Maryland Science Center, a partner in the series' live educational interstitials, hosted an exclusive screening of the series in early April. Children were treated to a first hand-account of the show's development from the Executive Producer and heard from NASA scientists about their involvement in the creation ofSpace Racers. Several launch events are being held in partnership with NASA including the Space Center Houston onMay 4, The California Science Center inLos AngelesonMay 29and the U.S. Space and Rocket Center inHuntsville, ALon June 1. Other upcoming events include aMay 3screening at the Clark Planetarium inSalt Lake City, aMay 8screening at the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum inWashington D.C., and aMay 10screening at the Wings Over the Rockies Museum in Denver.

The Virginia Air & Space Center is collaborating with theSpace Racersteam to develop an interactive space exploration exhibit for their preschool-aged visitors. The audience will experience the science behind space exploration including living, working and playing in space. The branded Space Racers-themed exhibit debuts in summer 2014 and will include theSpaceRacerscharacters and showcase video content from the show.

"We are thrilled and delighted at the reception ofSpace Racers. The station's reactions have been phenomenal and we are really excited about the pick-up of the show thus far," saysRichard SchweigerExecutive Producer and Creator ofSpace Racers. "Working on a Space Racers Museum exhibit with the Virginia Air & Space Center is exactly what we could hope for in terms of marrying our characters to science and space education. And nothing is more pleasing then seeing the response of the children attending our events when they see Eagle, Hawk, Robyn and the rest of theSpace Racerscrew for the very first time. We are pleased to be giving our fans this special treat."

"Maryland Public Television is very pleased with the overwhelming response we are receiving from public television stations around the country," adds MPT Chief Content OfficerSteven Schupak. "When we first spoke with Richard and theSpace Racersteam three years ago, we knew this series was something special. We are also very pleased to work on the live-action interstitials with Richard and his creative animation team."

Viewers that would enjoy seeing this series in their area are encouraged to contact their local Public Television Station to express interest inSpace Racers.Public TV stations can be located through the online station finder at this web link:http://www.aptonline.org/aptweb.nsf/vViewers/Index-Stations+Near+You

About Space Race, LLCFounded in 2010 Space Race, LLC is based inNew Yorkspecializing in children's programming and educational entertainment. Space Race, LLC aims to provide high-quality kids content for television, websites, gaming activities, and educational curricula.

About MPTLaunched in 1969 and headquartered inOwings Mills, MD, Maryland Public Television is a nonprofit, state-licensed public television network and member of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). MPT's six transmitters coverMarylandplus portions of contiguous states and the District of Columbia. Frequent winner of regional Emmy awards, MPT creates local, regional, and national television shows. Beyond broadcast, MPT's commitment to professional educators, parents, caregivers, and learners of all ages is manifest in its year-round instructional events and super-websiteThinkportwhich garners in excess of 1.4 million visits annually.

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30th anniversary of the joint Russian-Indian space flight brilliantly – Video

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How Much Of The U.S. Public Supports Space Spending? Depends On How You Read The Stats

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Apollo 16 astronaut John Young on the moon in 1972. Credit: NASA

A few days ago, the Pew Research Center published an article about space exploration support starting with this sentence: Many Americans are optimistic about the future of space travel, but they dont necessarily want to pay for it.

The articles impetus was this recent Pew Research/Smithsonian study called U.S. Views of Technology and the Future that said a third of Americans think there will be manned colonies on other planets by 2064. But long-range statistics from theNational Opinion Research Centers General Social Survey, Pew argues, demonstrate weak support for paying for space exploration.

We found that Americans are consistently more likely to say that the U.S. spends too much on space exploration than too little.At no time has more than 20% of the public said that the U.S. spends too little on space exploration, Pewwrote in the articleof the survey, which has been running for about 40 years.

Not everyone agrees with that interpretationof those numbers. In a personal website blog post published in 2013 (after the last GSS came out) NASA employee Dennis Boccippio said that financial support for space exploration has never been higher.

The International Space Station. Credit: NASA

The blog post, which referred to preliminary data from the 2012 survey, showed an overall higher favorability rating that was stronger than any GSS survey or at points cited before then from theNational Air and Space Museums Roger Launius. In particular, look at this graphthat Boccippio published on his blog.

The GSS surveys consistently show a slightly lower favorability rating for the survey question variant space exploration program versus space exploration but its very small. This may be one way to measure the difference between supporting the concept of exploration and supporting government programs, Boccippio said in an e-mail to Universe Today. Boccippio is NASAs manager of the center of strategic development at the Marshall Space Flight Center, but said he wrote the blog post as a private citizen.

The Pew research article seems fairly written, youve seen the graphic on my blog, so its a matter of interpretation. The fact that a large (30-40%) number of respondents respond were spending too much, and that the strong advocate/proponent population is small (10-20%) isnt really news, this has been consistent for decades, and one could as easily state from the same data more than 50% of Americans have consistently said were spending the right amount on it.

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