Inaugural graduates in Translational Biotechnology Master of Science prepared for impactful careers in STEM

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

Press Release by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist – May 15, 2025 – Dr. Minni Saluja enrolled in the Translational Biotechnology Master of Science program at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine because she was interested in the role...

Bioprinted Aorta Shows Promise for Cardiovascular Disease Treatment

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

by Isabella Backman – Yale School of Medicine – Yale researchers have built a 3D-bioprinted synthetic aorta that they have successfully implanted into rats. This technology could advance the treatment of cardiovascular diseases such as coronary artery...

Enhanced CAR T cell therapy offers new strategy for lymphoma

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

By Meagan Raeke – Penn Medicine News – PHILADELPHIA – A next-generation “armored” CAR T cell therapy showed promising results in a small study of patients whose B-cell lymphomas continued to resist multiple rounds of other cancer treatments, including...

The best and brightest young scientists are looking beyond the U.S. as cuts hit home

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

By Evan Bush – NBS News – Jack Castelli had it all figured out. The University of Washington doctoral student had spent the past three years developing new gene-editing techniques that could spur immunity to the virus that causes AIDS. Early testing in...

New MRI technique lights up ‘zombie cells’ that contribute to arthritis

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

By Rachel Tompa – Stanford Medicine – Research led by Stanford Medicine points to the first non-invasive imaging method to visualize senescent cells, which are alive but dormant and play a key role in many diseases. Anyone who’s had a knee or other joint...

Gene Therapy Restores Immune Function in Children With Rare Disorder

by admin | May 12, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by University of California Los Angeles – Technology Networks – An investigational gene therapy has successfully restored immune function in all nine children treated with the rare and life-threatening immune disorder called severe leukocyte adhesion...