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Understanding CAR-T cell therapy for cancer: A promising, less arduous cancer treatment

by admin | Aug 27, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Sara Youngblood Gregory – Mayo Clinic – For many scientists and doctors, immunotherapy that uses someone’s own immune system to target and attack cancer cells is the next and best frontier of cancer treatment. Over the last decade,...

Discoveries from human stem cell research in space that are relevant to advancing cellular therapies on Earth

by admin | Aug 26, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Fay Ghani, Abba C. Zubair – Nature – Stem cell research performed in space has provided fundamental insights into stem cell properties and behavior in microgravity including cell proliferation, differentiation, and regeneration capabilities. However,...

Zebrafish use surprising strategy to regrow spinal cord

by admin | Aug 23, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Julia Evangelou Strait – Washington University College of Medicine – Detailed blueprint of nerve cells’ dramatic changes could help identify ways to heal spinal cord damage. Zebrafish are members of a rarefied group of vertebrates capable of fully...

New way to extend ‘shelf life’ of blood stem cells will improve gene therapy

by admin | Aug 22, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By University of Cambridge – Researchers have discovered a way to extend the shelf life of blood stem cells outside the body for use in gene therapy, providing patients with better options and improving their outcomes. We were able to identify a key molecular...

Understanding the Risk of Second Cancers After CAR T-Cell Therapy

by admin | Aug 21, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By The National Cancer Institute – In November 2023, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it was investigating more than 20 instances of second cancers—specifically, T-cell lymphomas—in people who had been treated with CAR T-cell therapies. In several...

Astrocytes Are a Key Player in the Awakeneing of Dormant Neural Stem Cells

by admin | Aug 20, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Technology Networks – Research offers new hope for treating neurodevelopmental disorders by activating dormant neural stem cells. Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have...