Researchers at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center are working towards using umbilical cord blood stem cell transplants to limit or reverse hearing loss in infants. They have been able to confirm that stem cells inserted into the ears of mice helped rebuild their inner ear structure and they are betting that the same can be done with human infants. Another study conducted by the University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston (UT Health) and published in the journal Neurosurgery examined the use of stem cells to treat traumatic brain injury... Read More

November 30, 2011 – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded InVitria a $725,000 Phase II, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant to broaden the applications for InVitria's recombinant human serum albumin product Cellastim®... read more