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Cellular ‘scaffold’ enables myoblast implants on healthy muscle to advance regenerative medicine

by admin | Feb 28, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Tokyo Metropolitan University – MedicalXpress – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a way to treat age-related muscular atrophy using regenerative medicine. Conventional methods to implant myoblasts, precursors to muscle fiber,...

Daily briefing: CAR-T-cell therapy recipient nears two decades in cancer remission

by admin | Feb 27, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Jacob Smith – Nature – CAR T remission breaks record – A woman who received CAR-T-cell therapy to treat a nerve-cell cancer when she was 4 years old is still cancer-free 19 years later, the longest reported cancer remission following the...

Bone Marrow Banking Boosts Life-Saving Cell Therapy Development

by admin | Feb 26, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by The Scientist – Stem cells form the backbone of many cell-based therapies due to their unique properties, including the ability to self-renew and differentiate to many cell types. Multiple cell therapies deliver exogenous bone marrow stem cells into patients,...

Experts explore the future of iPSC-based cell therapies

by admin | Feb 25, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Drug Target Review – Regenerative medicine is set to be transformed by induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). These versatile cells can be reprogrammed to become virtually any cell type in the human body, offering groundbreaking possibilities for treating a...

Disruption of a single amino acid in a cellular protein makes breast cancer cells behave like stem cells

by admin | Feb 24, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Queen Mary University of London – New research led by Queen Mary’s Institute of Dentistry has found that changes to the intermediate filament (IF) protein, vimentin, were found to promote tumour growth. Vimentin is a type III intermediate filament (IF)...

Stem Cells in the Brain Use Childlike Signals to Trigger Regeneration

by admin | Feb 21, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Neuroscience News – Scientists have discovered that neural stem cells (NSCs) receive constant feedback from their daughter cells, influencing whether they remain dormant or activate to form new neurons and glia. This parent-child relationship helps regulate...