Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG - World Stem Cell Summit

Staten Island teen flies to Michigan to donate stem cells to a stranger in desperate need

by admin | Feb 6, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Dr. Gracelyn Santos – SILive.com Binghamton sophomore and Staten Islander, Hayley Bond, 19, recently traveled to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to donate her stem cells, after being informed she was a match for a leukemia patient, in desperate need of a bone marrow...

Scientists use Crispr gene editing to treat hereditary disorder

Secondary cancers following CAR T cell therapy are rare

by admin | Feb 5, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Penn Medicine News – Penn Today – The development of any type of second cancer following CAR T cell therapy is a rare occurrence, as found in an analysis of more than 400 patients treated at Penn Medicine, researchers from the Perelman School of...

Surprisingly simple model explains how brain cells organize and connect

by admin | Feb 2, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Matt Wood – University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division – A new study by physicists and neuroscientists from the University of Chicago, Harvard and Yale describes how connectivity among neurons comes about through general principles of networking...

An Italian Town Full of the Elderly Wants to Feel Young Again

by admin | Feb 1, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Jason Horowitz – New York Times – As the traveling brass band ended San Giovanni Lipioni’s annual holiday concert with a rendition of Wham’s “Last Christmas,” the gray-haired villagers seated in the old church of the central Italian hill town gazed...

Japan approves new stem cell-based Alzheimer’s therapy

by admin | Jan 31, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Phoebe Shields – Proactive – In what could be a major breakthrough for Alzheimer’s treatment, the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare has given the greenlight to a regenerative medicine technology based on administering fat-derived stem cells...

New Mayo Clinic stem cell research to take flight into space

by admin | Jan 30, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Lynda De Widt – Mayo Clinic – A Mayo Clinic research experiment will be part of a payload that launches into space from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Jan. 29, subject to weather conditions and other factors. The...