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New Mayo Clinic stem cell research to take flight into space

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

By Lynda De Widt – Mayo Clinic – A Mayo Clinic research experiment will be part of a payload that launches into space from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Jan. 29, subject to weather conditions and other factors. The...

World’s first IVF rhino pregnancy ‘could save species’

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

By Rebecca Morelle and Alison Francis – BBC News Science – A fertility breakthrough has offered hope for saving the northern white rhino from extinction – there are only two of the animals left on the planet. Scientists have achieved the...

How Stem Cell Embryo Models Won Method of the Year

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

By Technology Networks – A collection of ingenious biological tools for studying the genesis of life has been awarded Nature Methods’ coveted Method of the Year award for 2023. A collection of ingenious biological tools for studying the genesis of life has been...

Noninvasive technique reveals how cells’ gene expression changes over time

by admin | Jan 25, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Anne Trafton – MIT News – MIT researchers can now track a cell’s RNA expression to investigate long-term processes like cancer progression or embryonic development. Sequencing all of the RNA in a cell can reveal a great deal of information about that...

Mapping the Genome of Oral Stem Cells Holds Hope for Regenerative Medicine

by admin | Jan 24, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Technology Networks – “Dental pulp and periodontal ligament stem cells both have the potential to develop into any type of cell in the body.” A team of researchers from the ADA Forsyth Institute and University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill used...

Could natural killer cells transform Alzheimer’s treatment?

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

By Labiotech – This week on the podcast, we have a conversation with Dr Paul Song, CEO of NKGen Biotech, a company with its sights set on changing the Alzheimer’s disease treatment landscape with natural killer cells. The company’s natural killer (NK) cell...