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Partial Match Parity: Increasing the Donor Pool for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

by admin | Jul 11, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By: Charlotte Schubert, Ph.D. – University of Miami Miller School of Medicine – Blood cancer patients who may have previously struggled to find a donor for transplantation now have more options. A new study shows that patients achieve good outcomes with an...

Releasing a molecular ‘brake’ may help immune cells better fight cancer

by admin | Jul 10, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Van Andel Institute – Grand Rapids, MI – Van Andel Institute scientists and collaborators have discovered a potential treatment target that may re-energize dysfunctional or “exhausted” immune cells in their fight against cancer. The target is an immune...

Mice Regenerate Ear Tissue When Vitamin A Genetic Switch is Flipped

by admin | Jul 9, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News – By flipping an evolutionarily disabled genetic switch involved in vitamin A metabolism, researchers headed by a team at the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, have enabled ear tissue regeneration...

How the First Customized Gene Therapy Was Created in Six Months

by admin | Jul 8, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Molly Coddington – Technology Networks – CRISPR gene therapy is changing the future of rare genetic disorder treatments. In May, news broke that a 10-month-old baby, KJ Muldoon, was doing well after receiving 3 doses of the world’s first personalized...

FDA blocks new clinical trials that ship cells from US to China

by admin | Jul 4, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Nick Paul Taylor – Fierce Biotech – The FDA has stopped new clinical trials that export American citizens’ living cells from the U.S. to “China and other hostile countries for genetic engineering and subsequent infusion” back into American patients....

Japan is helping lead the way in regenerative medicine

by admin | Jul 3, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Alex (Guangyao) Xu – The Japan Times – In a quiet operating room on Kyoto University’s medical campus, a team of researchers slipped a syringe of lab-grown neurons into the brain of a living person. Leading the trial was Jun Takahashi, a neurosurgeon...