Healthspan for All! Healthspan Action Coalition Expands to 120 Organizations

by admin | Dec 13, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

San Francisco, CA and West Palm Beach, FL, December 13, 2023 – The nonprofit Healthspan Action Coalition (HSAC), in its first year of operations, has already assembled 120 organizations under the banner of “Healthspan.” This societal movement recognizes that with new...

FDA Approves First CRISPR Treatment in U.S.

by admin | Dec 11, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Alice Park – Time It was only 11 years ago that scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier first described a new way to edit genes, called CRISPR, in a scientific paper. The discovery is so game-changing that the pair earned the Nobel Prize in...

Student view: Growing mini human hearts from stem cells

by admin | Dec 8, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Michigan State University Brett Volmert is a Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. candidate in the College of Engineering. In a recent study, Volmert described a method for the creation and growth of mini human hearts, termed “heart organoids”. He presented the research...

Early-stage stem cell therapy trial shows promise for treating progressive MS

by admin | Dec 7, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Craig Brierley – University of Cambridge – An international team has shown that the injection of a type of stem cell into the brains of patients living with progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) is safe, well tolerated and has a long-lasting effect that...

Tiny living robots made from human cells surprise scientists

by admin | Dec 6, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Katie Hunt, CNN Scientists have created tiny living robots from human cells that can move around in a lab dish and may one day be able to help heal wounds or damaged tissue, according to a new study. A team at Tufts University and Harvard University’s Wyss...

FDA outlines process for recognizing standards for regenerative medicines

by admin | Dec 5, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Joanne S. Eglovitch – Regulatory Focus The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued final guidance describing its process for recognizing voluntary consensus standards (VCS) to spur the development of regenerative medicine therapies (RMTs) evaluated...