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How mRNA Could Safely Replace Blood Stem Cell Transplantation

by admin | Aug 29, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by William A. Haseltine – Forbes At present, the only way to cure genetic blood disorders such as sickle cell anemia and thalassemia is to reset the immune system with a stem cell transplantation. Only a fraction of patients elects this procedure, as the process...

Polyploid cells, which have extra copies of their genomes, may help tissues respond to injuries and species survive cataclysms

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

By Elizabeth Pennisi – Science When Vicki Losick got her Ph.D. and joined a fruit fly lab at the Carnegie Institution for Science in 2008, its head announced that he expected his postdocs to launch new fields of inquiry. She chose a then-fashionable focus: stem...

Want to speed up scientific progress? First understand how science policy works

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

Researchers and policymakers often exist in different worlds and speak different languages. Here are three ways to bridge the divide. by – Nature.com Science is a key driver of economic growth and social progress. If science can be accelerated — such as by...

Using stem cells, doctors restored vision to people with devastating eye injuries

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

By Theresa Tamkins, Jessica Klingbaum and Kristen Dahlgren – NBC News Eye surgeons in the U.S. are inching closer to being able to use a specific type of stem cell transplant to fix a serious eye problem that can cause pain and permanent vision loss. It was the...

Scientists harness the power of AI to shed light on different types of Parkinson’s disease

by admin | Aug 23, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Frances Crick Institute Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, working with technology company Faculty AI, have shown that machine learning can accurately predict subtypes of Parkinson’s disease using images of...

Stem cell studies tune into hearing regeneration

by admin | Aug 22, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Keck School of Medicine of USC – MedicalXpress Image caption: Rows of sensory hearing cells (green) next to supporting cells (red) in the inner ear of a mouse. Credit: John Duc Nguyen and Juan Llamas/Segil Lab A deafened adult cannot recover the ability to...