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Neurona Therapeutics Receives IND Clearance to Initiate Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial of Neural Cell Therapy NRTX-1001 in Chronic Focal Epilepsy Patients

by admin | Nov 5, 2021 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

November 04, 2021 08:00 ET | Source: Neurona Therapeutics SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Neurona Therapeutics, a biotherapeutics company advancing restorative neural cell therapies for the treatment of chronic neurological disorders, today...

Researcher awarded $12 million for a stem cell trial to improve outcomes of young blood cancer patients

by admin | Nov 2, 2021 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

Stanford researcher Maria Grazia Roncarolo has been awarded $12 million by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine for a trial aimed at improving the outcomes of stem cell transplants in children and young adults with blood cancers. November 2, 2021 –...

Stem cell therapy for kidney damage repair

by admin | Nov 2, 2021 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Susan Buckles Mesenchymal stem cells derived from a person’s fat cells may help repair kidney damage caused by narrowing blood vessels, Mayo Clinic research has discovered. The research by Stephen Textor, M.D., and his team is published in Kidney...

Takeda Receives Approval to Manufacture and Market Alofisel®▼ (darvadstrocel) in Japan for Treatment of Complex Perianal Fistulas in Patients with Non-active or Mildly Active Luminal Crohn’s Disease

by admin | Sep 27, 2021 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

September 27, 2021 – Alofisel (darvadstrocel) is the first expanded human allogeneic adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cell therapy to be approved in Japan – Alofisel provides a potential cell-mediated closure option for patients with complex perianal...

Repeated injury to airway stem cells could be major factor in chronic lung disease

by admin | Sep 22, 2021 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

Durham, NC – Are prematurely aged or overworked stem cells a significant factor in chronic lung disease? Findings of a study just released in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine (SCTM) say this is likely so. The study determined that repeated injury to the epithelial...

What’s next for lab-grown human embryos?

by admin | Sep 1, 2021 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

Researchers are now permitted to grow human embryos in the lab for longer than 14 days. Here’s what they could learn. By Kendall Powell – Nature – August 31, 2021 (link to original article) It was day 13 in a set of experiments in Ali Brivanlou’s...