by admin | Feb 11, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions
by Greta Friar – Link to Full Article with Video Imagine a ball thrown in the air: it curves up, then down, tracing an arc to a point on the ground some distance away. The path of the ball can be described with a simple mathematical equation, and if you know the...
by admin | Feb 10, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions
By Angus Chen – Link to Article In 2010, Doug Olson became the second person in the world to receive CAR-T cell therapy, an experimental tactic to engineer his own immune cells to fight cancer. His doctors had tempered expectations for how well it would fight...
by admin | Feb 9, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions
By Andrew Briskin – Link to Article In a collaboration between ViaCyte and CRISPR Therapeutics, a new clinical trial is investigating a cell therapy that may eventually help millions with type 1 diabetes. Researchers have long sought a cell-based “cure” for type...
by admin | Feb 8, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions
Genetically modified cancer-fighting cells are now developed on campus as part of a new cellular therapy program (SACRAMENTO) Alan Gaines did two tours in the Vietnam War as a Navy fighter pilot—so being brave isn’t new to him. At 77, he was diagnosed with an...
by admin | Jan 22, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions
HOUSTON – (link to article) – A huge advancement in treating heart disease could be on the horizon. Researchers at the Texas Heart Institute are studying a high-tech way to use stem cells to spare lives and protect patients from the #1 killer. Your heart...