Stem Cells

The mighty stem cell.  Perhaps no other scientific frontier is as exciting and full of potential  -- and the University of Minnesota Medical School is leading the way.

Our pioneering research with stem cells has already led to new treatments and therapies for blood cancers, kidney diseases, and conditions that benefit from the regeneration of tissue.

We’re also developing ways to use stem cells to repair heart muscle damaged by heart attacks, to repair the brain stem, and to fight diabetes through islet cell transplantation. 

Other recent highlights  include:

• the treatment of a rare skin disease using bone marrow and cord blood grafts
• new technology for de-cellularizing and re-cellularizing organs
• potential use of Natural Killer cells to treat cancer
• progress with enabling muscle differentiation from embryonic stem cells

The impact of stem cell research promises to reach far and wide -- in fact, we’ve only just begun to unlock the possibilities.