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Gene therapy eyedrops restored a boy’s sight. Similar treatments could help millions

by admin | Jul 28, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by LAURA UNGAR and FREIDA FRISARO – MedicalXpress Dr. Alfonso Sabater pulled up two photos of Antonio Vento Carvajal’s eyes. One showed cloudy scars covering both eyeballs. The other, taken after months of gene therapy given through eyedrops, revealed no...

AI is transforming every aspect of science. Here’s how.

by admin | Jul 27, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Saikiran Chandha – Live Science In the future, research labs will embrace the transformative potential of artificial intelligence to tackle wicked problems and speed up scientific discovery. Scientific laboratories of the future probably won’t have...

Scientists find the key to potentially reversing Parkinson’s disease

by admin | Jul 26, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by David McManus – Disability Support Guide A new breakthrough in Parkinson’s disease research has moved scientists one step closer to a significant treatment. Researchers were able to yield significant results through transplanting the skin cells of two people...

Cell and gene therapy is coming of age

by admin | Jul 25, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Center for Breakthrough Medicine – BIOPHARMADIVE The enormous impact the pandemic had on the biopharma industry is unmistakable, as evidenced by the unprecedented investments that took place in the cell and gene therapy (CGT) space. In January 2022, the...

Grow-your-own stem cells may repair Parkinson’s damage

by admin | Jul 24, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Bronwyn Thompson – New Atlas A new stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease is one step closer to human trials after scientists were able to successfully rebuild neural damage in an animal model. Researchers from Scripps Research and Cardiff University used...

Researchers turn to CRISPR to unlock one of the trickiest diseases to treat: Alzheimer’s

by admin | Jul 21, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Andrew Joseph – Stat News When the genome-editing tool CRISPR is thought of as a potential medicine, the targets that first come to mind are diseases like sickle cell or other conditions caused by particular mutations. Use CRISPR to fix that mutation, the...