The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired Yesterday

by admin | Apr 8, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Katherine Eban – Vanity Fair – If you’ve ever used eye drops that didn’t blind you, thank Dr. Timothy J. Pohlhaus. As of yesterday, he’s gone. And if you’ve ever been injected with a sterile drug that helped heal you instead of killing you, you have...

HHS layoffs hit Meals on Wheels and other services for seniors and disabled

by admin | Apr 7, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Joseph Shapiro – NPR Health News – The layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services slashed the staffs of major federal aging, disability and anti-poverty programs, leaving the future of those programs uncertain. At least 40% of staff got...

Paralysed man stands again after receiving ‘reprogrammed’ stem cells

by admin | Apr 7, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Smriti Mallapaty – Nature – Another man also regained some movement, but two others experienced minimal improvement. A paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal-cord injury. The Japanese man...

A new kind of stem cell is revolutionizing regenerative medicine

by admin | Apr 4, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Marissa Locke Rottinghaus – ASBMB Today – Regenerative medicine is rewriting the future of health care, with stem cells leading the charge as researchers report that their experimental induced pluripotent stem cell, or iPSC, therapeutics could restore...

Treating spinal cord injuries with stem cells

by admin | Apr 3, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

PODCAST by Brian Culley – Beyond Biotech – Spinal cord injuries impact millions of people worldwide and, unlike many chronic injuries, they usually arrive with no forewarning, impacting the young and old alike. Brian Culley is CEO of Lineage Cell...

New CRISPR tool enables more seamless gene editing — and improved disease modeling

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

By Bill Hathaway – Yale Health & Medicine – Yale scientists have developed a CRISPR technology that can assess genetic interactions on a host of immunological responses to multiple diseases, including cancer. Advances in the gene-editing technology...