by admin | Dec 11, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions
By Alice Park – Time It was only 11 years ago that scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier first described a new way to edit genes, called CRISPR, in a scientific paper. The discovery is so game-changing that the pair earned the Nobel Prize in...
by admin | Dec 8, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions
by Michigan State University Brett Volmert is a Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. candidate in the College of Engineering. In a recent study, Volmert described a method for the creation and growth of mini human hearts, termed “heart organoids”. He presented the research...
by admin | Dec 7, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions
By Craig Brierley – University of Cambridge – An international team has shown that the injection of a type of stem cell into the brains of patients living with progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) is safe, well tolerated and has a long-lasting effect that...
by admin | Dec 6, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions
By Katie Hunt, CNN Scientists have created tiny living robots from human cells that can move around in a lab dish and may one day be able to help heal wounds or damaged tissue, according to a new study. A team at Tufts University and Harvard University’s Wyss...
by admin | Dec 5, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions
by Joanne S. Eglovitch – Regulatory Focus The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued final guidance describing its process for recognizing voluntary consensus standards (VCS) to spur the development of regenerative medicine therapies (RMTs) evaluated...
by admin | Dec 4, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions
By Susan Buckles – Mayo Clinic During clinical rotations in medical school, Kianna Nguyen encountered many patients with liver failure and was struck by a grim reality: Their only hope was a transplant. The shortage of donor organs and therapeutic options was at...
