News and Opinions - World Stem Cell Summit

Most stem cells die after being injected into brain; new technique could change that

by admin | Jun 21, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Laurie Kaiser – University of Buffalo – When the myelin sheath that surrounds nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord becomes damaged, a number of debilitating conditions can result that limit mobility, inhibit independence and reduce life expectancy....

FDA Grants Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy Designation for AMT-130 Gene Therapy in Huntington Disease

by admin | Jun 20, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Isabella Ciccone, MPH – Nueurology Live – Recently, the FDA granted regenerative medicine advanced therapy (RMAT) designation to uniQure’s investigational Huntington disease (HD) gene therapy AMT-130 based on interim data from a phase 1/2 trial...

L’Oreal says it’s working on a form of bioprinted skin that can actually ‘feel’

by admin | Jun 19, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Ryan Browne – CNBC – PARIS, France — French beauty and cosmetics giant L’Oreal is working on a form of synthetically produced skin that it says will one day be able to “feel” like we do. At the Viva Technology conference in Paris last...

Study: CAR T for Prostate Cancer Shows Efficacy

by admin | Jun 18, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Letisia Marquez – City of Hope – Treating prostate cancer with immunotherapy is currently difficult to do. But preliminary results from a first in-human phase 1 trial using a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy developed by researchers from...

A cell therapy to heal a broken heart

by admin | Jun 17, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Alejandra Manjarrez, PhD – Drug Discovery News – Researchers harvest stem cells from patients who have recently had a heart attack and use them to trigger regeneration of their cardiac muscle. For many people, surviving a heart attack is just the...

Japan startup to seek approval for iPS cell therapy in global first

by admin | Jun 14, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by YUTA MAEDA – Nikkei – TOKYO — A Japanese startup is poised to become the first in the world to seek government approval for a therapy derived from human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, Nikkei has learned, with a less invasive alternative for...