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Going slow is better for fast cycling: Study reveals unique replication fork behavior in pluripotent stem cells

by admin | Aug 30, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by National Institutes of Natural Sciences – Phys.org – Embryonic stem (ES) cells are pluripotent stem cells that can produce all cell types of an organism. ES cells proliferate rapidly and have been thought to experience high levels of intrinsic...

Diabetes took over her life, until a stem cell therapy freed her

by admin | Aug 29, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Carolyn Y. Johnson – The Washington Post – For years, Amanda Smith and her husband were jolted awake at night by a buzz-buzz-beep — an alarm warning that her blood sugar was too high or too low. She would reach for juice boxes stored in her nightstand...

Brand New Publication: Nucleic Acid Therapeutics

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

By Mary Ann Liebert, Inc Publishers – This cover illustrates the original research report submitted by Anastasia Khvorova of the RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. This gorgeous image depicts the observation that nuclear...

Understanding CAR-T cell therapy for cancer: A promising, less arduous cancer treatment

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

By Sara Youngblood Gregory – Mayo Clinic – For many scientists and doctors, immunotherapy that uses someone’s own immune system to target and attack cancer cells is the next and best frontier of cancer treatment. Over the last decade,...

Discoveries from human stem cell research in space that are relevant to advancing cellular therapies on Earth

by admin | Aug 26, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Fay Ghani, Abba C. Zubair – Nature – Stem cell research performed in space has provided fundamental insights into stem cell properties and behavior in microgravity including cell proliferation, differentiation, and regeneration capabilities. However,...

Zebrafish use surprising strategy to regrow spinal cord

by admin | Aug 23, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Julia Evangelou Strait – Washington University College of Medicine – Detailed blueprint of nerve cells’ dramatic changes could help identify ways to heal spinal cord damage. Zebrafish are members of a rarefied group of vertebrates capable of fully...