{"id":211576,"date":"2025-04-16T13:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/novel-method-enables-safe-delivery-of-stem-cells-in-critically-ill-patients-on-external-lung-support"},"modified":"2025-04-16T13:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:09:19","slug":"novel-method-enables-safe-delivery-of-stem-cells-in-critically-ill-patients-on-external-lung-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/novel-method-enables-safe-delivery-of-stem-cells-in-critically-ill-patients-on-external-lung-support","title":{"rendered":"Novel method enables safe delivery of stem cells in critically ill patients on external lung support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-method-enables-safe-delivery-of-stem-cells-in-critically-ill-patients-on-external-lung-support2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A multidisciplinary clinical team led by Professor Bernat Soria from the Institute of Bioengineering at the Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez University of Elche (UMH, Spain) has developed a new method to deliver cell therapies in patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a life support system used in cases of severe lung failure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13287-025-04289-3\" target=\"_blank\">The advance<\/a> has been published in <i>Stem Cell Research &amp; Therapy<\/i>. The team has opted not to patent the technique in order to encourage its use in public health systems once further clinical testing is completed.<\/p>\n<p>The method\u2014named CIBA, for \u201cConsecutive Intrabronchial Administration\u201d\u2014enables the delivery of stem-cell-based treatments directly into the alveoli of critically ill patients who cannot receive standard intravenous cell therapy due to the ECMO system\u2019s constraints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multidisciplinary clinical team led by Professor Bernat Soria from the Institute of Bioengineering at the Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez University of Elche (UMH, Spain) has developed a new method to deliver cell therapies in patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a life support system used in cases of severe lung failure. The advance has been published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}