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Study: CAR T for Prostate Cancer Shows Efficacy

by admin | Jun 18, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Letisia Marquez – City of Hope – Treating prostate cancer with immunotherapy is currently difficult to do. But preliminary results from a first in-human phase 1 trial using a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy developed by researchers from...

A cell therapy to heal a broken heart

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

by Alejandra Manjarrez, PhD – Drug Discovery News – Researchers harvest stem cells from patients who have recently had a heart attack and use them to trigger regeneration of their cardiac muscle. For many people, surviving a heart attack is just the...

Japan startup to seek approval for iPS cell therapy in global first

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

by YUTA MAEDA – Nikkei – TOKYO — A Japanese startup is poised to become the first in the world to seek government approval for a therapy derived from human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, Nikkei has learned, with a less invasive alternative for...

Mistaken Identity: Gut Stem Cell Discovery Could Transform Regenerative Medicine

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

By NeuroscienceNews.com – Two studies reveal that scientists have misidentified gut stem cells, impacting research and treatments for 15 years. Researchers identified the true stem cells in a different gut region, which could lead to breakthroughs in...

New Webinar: Novel Interventions for Preempting Neurodegeneration

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

by The Kitalys Institute – FRIDAY JUNE 14, 2024 Co-Moderators Lee Rubin, PhD, Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Lawrence Steinman, MD, Zimmermann Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, and Pediatrics...

Disc comfort: gene therapy for chronic back pain

by admin | Jun 11, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Megan Giboney – RegMedNet – Ohio State University (USA) researchers have developed a novel non-viral gene therapy to treat discogenic back pain, a type of chronic low back pain that results from the degeneration of intervertebral discs. Intervertebral...