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Ancient viral DNA plays role in early embryo development

by admin | Feb 15, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Dr Naomi Phillips – Progress.org – Viral genetic material, integrated into our DNA millions of years ago, has an essential role in a key early stage in embryo development. Using a mouse model, scientists in Spain have shown that endogenous retroviruses,...

Neurona raises 0M to take epilepsy cell therapy to late-stage development

Neurona raises $120M to take epilepsy cell therapy to late-stage development

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

By Kyle LaHucik – Endpoints News Neurona Therapeutics has gathered $120 million in what is expected to be its last private financing round to wrap up an open-label study this year and move its epilepsy cell therapy into a randomized Phase II in 2025, CEO and...

Jennifer Doudna: Delivering the future of CRISPR-based genome editing

by admin | Feb 13, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Marni Ellery – Berkley Engineering – Nobel laureate details new applications at Kuh Distinguished Lecture. Jennifer Doudna, Nobel laureate and Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Chair and Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell...

FDA takes bid to regulate ‘liquid magic’ stem cell treatments to Ninth Circuit

by admin | Feb 12, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Edvard Pettersson – Courthouse News Service – The FDA asked the Ninth Circuit to follow their colleagues on the 11th Circuit and find that novel stem cell procedures are not exempt from the agency’s oversight. PASADENA, Calif. (CN) — The U.S. Food...

Staten Island teen flies to Michigan to donate stem cells to a stranger in desperate need

by admin | Feb 6, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Dr. Gracelyn Santos – SILive.com Binghamton sophomore and Staten Islander, Hayley Bond, 19, recently traveled to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to donate her stem cells, after being informed she was a match for a leukemia patient, in desperate need of a bone marrow...

Scientists use Crispr gene editing to treat hereditary disorder

Secondary cancers following CAR T cell therapy are rare

by admin | Feb 5, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Penn Medicine News – Penn Today – The development of any type of second cancer following CAR T cell therapy is a rare occurrence, as found in an analysis of more than 400 patients treated at Penn Medicine, researchers from the Perelman School of...