Silicon Valley Bank failure spooks digital health, biotech industries

by admin | Apr 6, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Tina Reed – Axios Digital health and biotech firms made up a substantial part of Silicon Valley Bank’s client base. And its historic failure is raising troubling questions about how much the fallout will hurt emerging health companies in need of...

Athenex’s cash dries up as it faces clinical hold on cancer therapy in wake of patient death

by admin | Mar 31, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Gabrielle Masson – Fierce Biotech News Athenex is in a tight spot, trying to stretch out its remaining cash and ward off an unruly creditor just as the FDA slaps a clinical hold on its neuroblastoma cell therapy while it explores a patient’s death in a...

To Ward Off Aging, Stem Cells Must Take Out the Trash

by admin | Mar 30, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

Nicole Mlynaryk – University of California Sab Diego News UC San Diego scientists find stem cells’ unique way of discarding misfolded proteins could be the key to maintaining long-term health and preventing disease In humanity’s ongoing quest for the elixir of...

Scientists identify a method to rejuvenate old stem cells

by admin | Mar 27, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Linda Wang – UCLA Health A research team led by Dr. Thomas Rando, director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, has discovered that restoring glutathione—a key antioxidant that prevents cell...

How Japanese science is trying to reassert its research strength

by admin | Mar 24, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Tim Hornyak – Nature Successes in life sciences and international collaboration could be key to boosting the country’s high-quality output. After five years studying genome editing at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, Keiji Nishida returned to...

3D bioprinting inside the human body could be possible thanks to new soft robot

by admin | Mar 23, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Neil Martin – UNSW Sydney Newsroom UNSW researchers unveil prototype device that can directly 3D print living cells onto internal organs and potentially be used as an all-in-one endoscopic surgical tool. Engineers from UNSW Sydney have developed a miniature...