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...

Organ-Chips May Help Unlock the Mystery of ALS

by admin | Jul 2, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Christina Elston – Cedars Sinai – Cedars-Sinai’s Lifelike Laboratory Model Is a New Way for Investigators to Study Motor Neurons That Die in Patients With the Neurodegenerative Illness Using stem cells from patients with ALS (amyotrophic lateral...

3 progressive MS patients see lower disability with CAR T-cell therapy

by admin | Jul 1, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Marisa Wexler – Multiple Sclerosis News Today – A CAR T-cell therapy from Iaso Biotherapeutics was tolerated well and led to marked improvements in disability for three people with progressive forms of multiple sclerosis (MS), according to early data...

Germany calls for medicine to treat aging, not just disease

by admin | Jun 30, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Eleanor Garth – Longevity.Technology – Leopoldina issues policy paper urging integration of geroscience into national healthcare and research infrastructure. Germany’s National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has published a detailed policy paper calling...

People With Severe Diabetes Are Cured in Small Trial of New Drug

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

By Gina Kolata – New York Times – Most in a small group of patients receiving a stem cell-based infusion no longer needed insulin, but the drug may not suit those with more manageable type 1 diabetes. A single infusion of a stem cell-based treatment may...