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A New CRISPR Cancer Treatment Has Been Tested On Humans For The First Time – And The Results Are Promising

by admin | Dec 7, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Rameesha Sajwar – Wonderful Engineering Gene-editing technology CRISPR has been used to remove genes from immune system cells to make them better at fighting cancer. Recently, PACT Pharma and UCLA have used CRISPR to remove and add genes to these cells to...

USC and CHLA awarded million to expand access to cell and gene therapy clinical trials

USC and CHLA awarded $8 million to expand access to cell and gene therapy clinical trials

by admin | Dec 6, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

CIRM-funded USC+CHLA Alpha Clinic boosts capacity for clinical and translational research, community outreach, training and manufacturing By Wayne Lewis – Keck School of Medicine of USC The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state’s stem...

Secret shopper studies: an unorthodox design that measures inequities in healthcare access

by admin | Dec 5, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Kelsey A. Rankin, Alison Mosier-Mills, Walter Hsiang & Daniel H. Wiznia – BMC Archives of Public Health Abstract Secret shopper studies are particularly potent study designs that allow for the gathering of objective data for a variety of research...

Fitness program for blood stem cells: TAZ protein protects from age-related loss of function

by admin | Dec 1, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by by Kerstin Wagner, Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung – Fritz-Lipmann-Institut e.V. (FLI) – Phys.org Image: Hematopoietic stem cells age very heterogeneously. The TAZ protein, a co-activator of the Hippo signaling pathway, can protect blood stem...

Human synovial mesenchymal stem cells show time-dependent morphological changes and increased adhesion to degenerated porcine cartilage

by admin | Dec 1, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Takahiro Tanimoto, Kentaro Endo, Yuriko Sakamaki, Nobutake Ozeki, Hisako Katano, Mitsuru Mizuno, Hideyuki Koga & Ichiro Sekiya – Scientific Reports Abstract The possibility that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can adhere to partial defects or degenerative...

Greenstone Bio Secures .3M from CIRM for iPSC-derived Cardiovascular Cell Technologies

Greenstone Bio Secures $1.3M from CIRM for iPSC-derived Cardiovascular Cell Technologies

by admin | Nov 30, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By By Cade Hildreth, BioInformant Palo Alto, CA – Greenstone Biosciences, Inc. (“Greenstone Bio”), a commercial-stage computational biology company, announces that the Company has received a DISC0 grant funding from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine...