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Parkinson’s patient moves freely again after world-first implant of lab-grown cells into his brain

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

By Roselyne Min with EBU – Euronews.Health Parkinson’s patient Thomas Matsson was the first in the world to receive 7 million lab-grown brain cells in 2023. Today, he can smell and play sports. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have successfully implanted...

Regenerative Medicine Is Changing the Way We Age

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

By Amy Marturana Winderl – HealthCentral – A look at the next-gen therapies that hope to turn the field of medicine—and treating age-related chronic conditions—upside down. Taking a person’s own cells out of their body and then putting them back in to heal...

Cell Therapy is Now on The Table for Metastatic Melanoma

by admin | May 16, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By: Rachel Tompa, Ph.D. – U. of Miami – Miller School of Medicine – There’s good news for patients with advanced melanoma. The first cellular therapy for metastatic melanoma was recently approved by the FDA. This is the first cellular therapy...

Accelerating cardiac regenerative therapy with HiPSC spheroids

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

By Drug Target Review – Injections of cardiac spheroids into primate ventricles improved left ventricular ejection after four weeks. Researchers from Shinshu University and Keio University School of Medicine have tested a novel strategy for regenerative heart...

Uncovering the secret of long-lived stem cells

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

By Baylor College of Medicine – The levels of cyclophilin A, shown here in red, decline as hematopoietic stem cells age. Image courtesy of the authors/Nature Cell Biology, 2024. Nothing lives forever, but compared to other cells in the body, hematopoietic stem...

Stem cell biologists, we’re concerned a Utah law will lead to a boom in snake oil sales

Opinion: Stem cell biologists are concerned a Utah law will lead to a boom in snake oil sales

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

By Sean J. Morrison and Gerald J. Spangrude – The Salt Lake Tribune – The people of Utah are at risk of being harmed by a law that undermines federal regulation and promotes the sale of unproven therapies. On May 1, Utah’s law SB 199, Placental Tissue...