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Stem Cell Study Shows How Neurons from PTSD Patients React to Stress

by admin | Dec 20, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News A study by scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the Yale School of Medicine, and the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute (NYSCF)...

Desperate covid long-haulers turn to costly, unproven treatments

by admin | Dec 19, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Frances Stead Sellers – The Washington Post For the burgeoning population of covid long-haulers, there is an abundance of new treatment options: Specially formulated nutraceuticals imported from India that promise to “get you life back from covid.” Pure...

Cancer: ‘Single-step’ CRISPR treatment may provide lifelong protection

by admin | Dec 16, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by By Beth JoJack – Medical News Today For the first time, researchers have used CRISPR gene-editing technology to substitute a gene in a patient’s immune cells to redirect those cells to fight cancer. Details of a small human clinical trial using this approach...

MIT researchers reveal DNA ‘Paste’ tech behind latest gene editing startup

by admin | Dec 15, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Lei Lei Wu – EndpointsNews MIT scientists have developed a tool that they say can insert large gene sequences where they want in the genome. In a paper published Thursday in Nature Biotechnology, MIT fellows Omar Abudayyeh, Jonathan Gootenberg and colleagues...

Greater genetic diversity is needed in human pluripotent stem cell models

by admin | Dec 14, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Sulagna Ghosh, Ralda Nehme & Lindy E. Barrett Nature Communications While there are a growing number of human pluripotent stem cell repositories, genetic diversity remains limited in most collections and studies. Here, we discuss the importance of...

Northern White Rhino Primordial Germ Cells Successfully Created

by admin | Dec 13, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Max Delbrook Center A big step toward producing rhino gametes To save the northern white rhinoceros from extinction, the BioRescue team is racing to create lab-grown egg and sperm cells of the critically endangered subspecies. The team has now reported a milestone...