This medical startup uses LLMs to run appointments and make diagnoses

by admin | Oct 15, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Grace Huckins – MIT Technology Review – Imagine this: You’ve been feeling unwell, so you call up your doctor’s office to make an appointment. To your surprise, they schedule you in for the next day. At the appointment, you aren’t rushed through...

Distal lung organoids derived from adult stem cells as novel tools in deciphering mechanisms of lung regeneration, infection, and cancer

by admin | Oct 14, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Stem Cells Translational Medicine – Introduction While lung research has made great strides in understanding lung physiology, lung pathology still presents a major burden to patients and healthcare systems globally. To develop new effective therapeutics to...

Stem cells may offer new hope for end-stage kidney disease treatment

by admin | Oct 13, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Alison Satake – Mayo Clinic – More than 4 million people worldwide have end-stage kidney disease that requires hemodialysis, a treatment in which a machine filters waste from the blood. Hemodialysis is a precursor to kidney transplant. To prepare for...

ISSCR Unveils Roadmap for Advancing Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Therapies

by admin | Oct 10, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Bioengineer.org – The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has unveiled an innovative and comprehensive resource entitled Best Practices for the Development of Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cellular Therapies, marking a pivotal advancement in...

Adult Stem Cells Improve Vision in Patients With Macular Degeneration

by admin | Oct 8, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Technology Networks – In a first-in-human Phase 1/2a clinical trial, adult stem cells improved vision in patients with macular degeneration. In the United States, age-related macular degeneration is a leading cause of irreversible vision loss in people who...

Lab-grown kidneys show real function in new stem cell study

by admin | Oct 7, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Drug Target Review – A USC Stem Cell-led research team have made a big breakthrough in their efforts to build mouse and human synthetic kidneys. In a new paper published in Cell Stem Cell, the scientists describe generating more mature and complex lab-grown...