Research Spotlight: Preventing stalling to improve CAR-T cells’ efficacy against tumors

by admin | Jun 20, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Mass General Brigham – Marcela Maus, MD, PhD, director of the Cellular Immunotherapy Program and the Paula J. O’Keeffe Endowed Chair of the Mass General Cancer Center, is senior author and Stefanie Bailey, PhD, Hana Takei, and Giulia Escobar, PhD of the...

Son’s diabetes diagnosis sent scientist on quest for cure

by admin | Jun 19, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Kermit Pattison – The Harvard Gazette – Decades later, Doug Melton and team are testing treatment that could make insulin shots obsolete. Doug Melton’s life irrevocably changed the day his child was diagnosed with a life-threatening disease. But unlike...

Blocking a single enzyme rewires limb regrowth in axolotls

by admin | Jun 18, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Vijay Kumar Malesu – Medical life Sciences News – In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers in the United States explored how cytochrome P450 family 26 subfamily B member 1 (CYP26B1)-mediated retinoic acid (RA)...

Dozens of states sue to block the sale of 23andMe personal genetic data

by admin | Jun 17, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By The Associated Press – PORTLAND, Ore. — Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia on Monday filed a lawsuit in bankruptcy court seeking to block the sale of personal genetic data by 23andMe without customer consent. The lawsuit comes as a biotechnology...

Stem cell therapies advance in Parkinson’s disease and beyond

by admin | Jun 16, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Natalie Healey – Nature Medicine – Landmark trials using stem cells to treat Parkinson’s disease in the USA and Japan mark a turning point for cell therapy in neurodegeneration. Similar approaches to Alzheimer’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...

No More Transplants? New Gene Therapy Targets Blood Stem Cells Directly

by admin | Jun 13, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Fondazione Telethon – SciTechDaily – Researchers have identified an early postnatal window that allows gene transfer to circulating blood stem cells, advancing the development of potential treatments for genetic disorders. A team of scientists from the...