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Stem Cell Therapy Development Embraces New Technologies

by admin | Jul 5, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News – Stem cell research recently celebrated its 60th anniversary. Although the first publications in this field appeared in the early 1960s, it took another 20 years before the first embryonic stem cells could be...

Fertility treatments could get a boost from stem cells

by admin | Jul 3, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by University of Copenhagen – MedicalXpress – An unexpectedly versatile and regenerative stem cell in early embryos may be key to creating new effective fertility treatments, suggests a new study in mice from the University of Copenhagen. The paper, titled...

Huntington Disease Gene Therapy Nets RMAT Designation

by admin | Jul 2, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Victoria Johnson – CGT Live = The FDA has granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapeutic (RMAT) Designation to uniQure’s AMT-130 gene therapy for the potential treatment of Huntington disease (HD).1 “We’re thrilled to receive the first ever RMAT...

Lab-grown muscles reveal mysteries of rare muscle diseases

by admin | Jul 1, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Duke University – Science Daily – Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a new technique to better understand and test treatments for a group of extremely rare muscle disorders called dysferlinopathy or limb girdle muscular dystrophies...

Stem Cell Plasticity: A Double-Edged Sword

by admin | Jun 28, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Hannah Thomasy, PhD – The Scientist – Yejing Ge explores the behavior of skin-resident stem cells in wound repair, cancer, and aging. In 1986, Harold Dvorak, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School, popularized the idea of cancer as a wound that does...

Unraveling the Mysteries of Stem Cells

by admin | Jun 27, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Gret Harrison – USC Viterbi – New research harnesses machine learning and imaging to give unprecedented insight into stem cell behavior that could enable future lifesaving therapies. Stem cells are like the emergency tool kit of the human body. They...