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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...

UofL cardiologist leading clinical trial for high potential new therapy for heart failure

by admin | Aug 19, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By University of Louisville School of Medicine – A new stem cell therapy for heart failure is being tested in patients at the University of Louisville and UofL Health. The trial is the first in the U.S. to test umbilical cord-derived stem cells in patients for...

Next-generation CRISPR-based gene-editing therapies tested in clinical trials

by admin | Aug 16, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Natalie Healey – Nature Medicine Going from the laboratory to an approved therapy in 11 years is no mean feat. That is the story of the world’s first approved CRISPR–Cas9 therapy, greenlit by the US Food and Drug Administration in December 2023. Casgevy...