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Stem cell platform aims to recreate brain’s immune system using lab-grown human microglia cells

by admin | Jun 23, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Harvard University – Microglia are a specialized type of immune cell that accounts for about 10% of all cells within the brain and spinal cord. They function by eliminating infectious microbes, dead cells, and aggregated proteins, as well as soluble antigens...

Research Spotlight: Preventing stalling to improve CAR-T cells’ efficacy against tumors

by admin | Jun 20, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Mass General Brigham – Marcela Maus, MD, PhD, director of the Cellular Immunotherapy Program and the Paula J. O’Keeffe Endowed Chair of the Mass General Cancer Center, is senior author and Stefanie Bailey, PhD, Hana Takei, and Giulia Escobar, PhD of the...

Son’s diabetes diagnosis sent scientist on quest for cure

by admin | Jun 19, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Kermit Pattison – The Harvard Gazette – Decades later, Doug Melton and team are testing treatment that could make insulin shots obsolete. Doug Melton’s life irrevocably changed the day his child was diagnosed with a life-threatening disease. But unlike...

Blocking a single enzyme rewires limb regrowth in axolotls

by admin | Jun 18, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Vijay Kumar Malesu – Medical life Sciences News – In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers in the United States explored how cytochrome P450 family 26 subfamily B member 1 (CYP26B1)-mediated retinoic acid (RA)...

Dozens of states sue to block the sale of 23andMe personal genetic data

by admin | Jun 17, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By The Associated Press – PORTLAND, Ore. — Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia on Monday filed a lawsuit in bankruptcy court seeking to block the sale of personal genetic data by 23andMe without customer consent. The lawsuit comes as a biotechnology...

Stem cell therapies advance in Parkinson’s disease and beyond

by admin | Jun 16, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Natalie Healey – Nature Medicine – Landmark trials using stem cells to treat Parkinson’s disease in the USA and Japan mark a turning point for cell therapy in neurodegeneration. Similar approaches to Alzheimer’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...