Regenerative health at the Abu Dhabi Stem Cell Center

Ann Marie McQueen March 1, 2023
The LiveHealthy Podcast
The LiveHealthy Podcast
Regenerative health at the Abu Dhabi Stem Cell Center
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Dr Ruqqia Mir, the consultant neurologist at Abu Dhabi Stem Cell Center talks all about the cutting edge work at the center, which recently conducted the UAE’s first bone marrow transplant on a patient with Multiple Sclerosis.   Highlights:   What stem cells are and how they work CAR (Chimeric antigen receptor) therapy, which harnesses the body’s defense system by reprogramming certain white blood cells (T cells) to identify and attack cancerous cells How the

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Abu Dhabi Stem Cell Center is regenerating health

Ann Marie McQueen March 1, 2023
The LiveHealthy Podcast
The LiveHealthy Podcast
Abu Dhabi Stem Cell Center is regenerating health
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Dr Ruqqia Mir, the consultant neurologist at Abu Dhabi Stem Cell Center talks all about the cutting edge work at the center, which recently conducted the UAE’s first bone marrow transplant on a patient with Multiple Sclerosis.   Highlights:   What stem cells are and how they work CAR (Chimeric antigen receptor) therapy, which harnesses the body’s defense system by reprogramming certain white blood cells (T cells) to identify and attack cancerous cells How the

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Stem cell researcher

How Abu Dhabi Stem Cells Center is taking aim at disease

Ben East December 19, 2022

Dr Ruqqia Mir, a consultant at the groundbreaking Abu Dhabi Stem Cells Center, is excited. We’re speaking to her just days after its doctors performed the UAE’s first successful bone marrow transplant on a patient with Multiple Sclerosis – with immediate improvements in her condition. “She did really well,” she beams. “We are an innovation and research-driven facility but we’re committed to helping patients heal today — as well as tomorrow and for years to

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Dee Popat MS multiple sclerosis

MS awareness: ‘You have it in you to lead your best life’

Tamara Clarke March 14, 2022

Dee Popat has lived with multiple sclerosis (MS) for 25 years. She was officially diagnosed in 1997 but in hindsight realizes that she began experiencing symptoms two years prior, following a car accident. Dee’s symptoms, which were attributed to whiplash, included “weird feelings, such as a day or so of numbness in my right leg and then everything was normal or episodes when I could only see partially from one eye”. Finally, after two years

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