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JPM25: Bayer moves allogeneic cell therapy into phase 3 Parkinson’s trial

by admin | Jan 28, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Gabrielle Masson – Fierce Biotech – Bayer’s Parkinson’s disease cell therapy is moving into late-stage testing, with the upcoming trial set to be the first registrational phase 3 study for an investigational allogeneic cell therapy in the...

Autologous Implants: The New Hope for Spinal Cord Injury Treatment

by admin | Jan 27, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Asaf Levon – Haaretz News – Can damaged parts of the spinal cord be replaced with functional nerve tissues? Matricelf aims to make this vision a reality with groundbreaking technology. In the company’s laboratories in Nes Ziona, a team of about...

Correcting Genetic Spelling Errors With Next-Generation Crispr

by admin | Jan 24, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Francis Collins for Wired – Treatments for rare diseases are hard to create and expensive to deliver, but there is new hope for editing the software of the genome. Sam Berns was my friend. With the wisdom of a sage, he inspired me and many others about how to...

Automated iPS cell production to start in Japan in April

by admin | Jan 23, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Jiji – The japan Times – Kyoto – Following its success in automating the process of creating induced pluripotent stem cells, Kyoto University’s CiRA Foundation will start producing iPS cells from patients’ own cells utilizing the automated...

The Download: what’s next for AI, and stem-cell therapies

by admin | Jan 22, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By By Rhiannon Williams – MIT Technology Review – Stem-cell therapies that work: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025 A quarter-century ago, researchers isolated powerful stem cells from embryos created through in vitro fertilization. These cells,...

10 Mayo Clinic research advances in 2024, spanning stem cell therapy in space to growing mini-organs

by admin | Jan 21, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Mayo Clinic – ROCHESTER, Minn. — At Mayo Clinic, researchers published more than 10,000 scientific papers in 2024 that are driving medical discoveries, leading to new cures for the future. The following are 10 research highlights from Mayo Clinic this year:...