by admin | Dec 16, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions
by By Beth JoJack – Medical News Today For the first time, researchers have used CRISPR gene-editing technology to substitute a gene in a patient’s immune cells to redirect those cells to fight cancer. Details of a small human clinical trial using this approach...
by admin | Dec 15, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions
By Lei Lei Wu – EndpointsNews MIT scientists have developed a tool that they say can insert large gene sequences where they want in the genome. In a paper published Thursday in Nature Biotechnology, MIT fellows Omar Abudayyeh, Jonathan Gootenberg and colleagues...
by admin | Dec 14, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions
By Sulagna Ghosh, Ralda Nehme & Lindy E. Barrett Nature Communications While there are a growing number of human pluripotent stem cell repositories, genetic diversity remains limited in most collections and studies. Here, we discuss the importance of...
by admin | Dec 13, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions
By Max Delbrook Center A big step toward producing rhino gametes To save the northern white rhinoceros from extinction, the BioRescue team is racing to create lab-grown egg and sperm cells of the critically endangered subspecies. The team has now reported a milestone...
by admin | Dec 13, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions
by Bob Yirka , Phys.org A team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, Los Angeles, working with a colleague from Vilnius University, has found evidence of thousands of phages with DNA strands that should allow them to...
by admin | Dec 12, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions
By Megan Molteni – Stat News He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist who created the first gene-edited children, had been quiet since completing a three-year prison sentence in April, leaving many to wonder whether he had plans to return to scientific research....
