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Aging Decoded: Terms You Need to Know – Healthspan Compass Podcast Episode 2

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

By Kevin McMahon – Healthspan Action Coalition – Join our hosts, Junaid Mian of 1435 Capital Management and Melissa King from the Healthspan Action Coalition for this edition of Healthspan Compass. In this episode, our hosts aim to establish a foundational...

Can space help heal hearts? ISS study charts new path for stem cell therapy

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

By Brian Buntz – Drug Discovery & Development – Emory University stem-cell biologist Chunhui Xu is looking to space for a new way to mend damaged hearts on Earth. Her team is using the International Space Station (ISS) National Lab to test if the...

Inaugural graduates in Translational Biotechnology Master of Science prepared for impactful careers in STEM

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

Press Release by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist – May 15, 2025 – Dr. Minni Saluja enrolled in the Translational Biotechnology Master of Science program at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine because she was interested in the role...

Bioprinted Aorta Shows Promise for Cardiovascular Disease Treatment

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

by Isabella Backman – Yale School of Medicine – Yale researchers have built a 3D-bioprinted synthetic aorta that they have successfully implanted into rats. This technology could advance the treatment of cardiovascular diseases such as coronary artery...

Enhanced CAR T cell therapy offers new strategy for lymphoma

by admin | May 15, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Meagan Raeke – Penn Medicine News – PHILADELPHIA – A next-generation “armored” CAR T cell therapy showed promising results in a small study of patients whose B-cell lymphomas continued to resist multiple rounds of other cancer treatments, including...

The best and brightest young scientists are looking beyond the U.S. as cuts hit home

by admin | May 14, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Evan Bush – NBS News – Jack Castelli had it all figured out. The University of Washington doctoral student had spent the past three years developing new gene-editing techniques that could spur immunity to the virus that causes AIDS. Early testing in...