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Surprisingly simple model explains how brain cells organize and connect

by admin | Feb 2, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Matt Wood – University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division – A new study by physicists and neuroscientists from the University of Chicago, Harvard and Yale describes how connectivity among neurons comes about through general principles of networking...

An Italian Town Full of the Elderly Wants to Feel Young Again

by admin | Feb 1, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Jason Horowitz – New York Times – As the traveling brass band ended San Giovanni Lipioni’s annual holiday concert with a rendition of Wham’s “Last Christmas,” the gray-haired villagers seated in the old church of the central Italian hill town gazed...

Japan approves new stem cell-based Alzheimer’s therapy

by admin | Jan 31, 2024 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Phoebe Shields – Proactive – In what could be a major breakthrough for Alzheimer’s treatment, the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare has given the greenlight to a regenerative medicine technology based on administering fat-derived stem cells...

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...