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The new strategy may enable engineered T cells to eradicate solid tumors such as glioblastoma

by admin | Jul 7, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Engineering T cells to destroy cancer cells has shown success in treating some types of cancer, such as leukemia and lymphoma. However, it hasn’t worked as well for solid tumors. One reason for this lack of success is that the T cells...

Ax-2 Crew Conducted Studies During Mission to Understand Human Physiology in Microgravity

by admin | Jul 6, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Ax-2 Mission Ax-2 Mission Specialist Ali Alqarni uses the Smarting Pro EEG device aboard the ISS to conduct brain studies. During Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2), the Ax-2 astronauts measured changes in their eyes, blood pressure, blood oxygen, and heart rate levels, as...

Read the June issue of Stem Cells Translational Medicine, now online

by admin | Jul 5, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Stem Cells Translational Medicine READ THE JUNE ISSUE Human Clinical Article Cell-Based Drug Development, Screening, and Toxicology Enabling Technologies for Cell-Based Clinical Translations Manufacturing for Regenerative Medicine and more…. Click Here to...

BlueRock’s neuronal stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease is first to show positive results in Phase I clinical study

by admin | Jul 3, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By BlueRock Therapeutics Berlin, Germany and Cambridge, M.A., U.S.A., June 28, 2023 – Bayer AG and BlueRock Therapeutics LP, a clinical stage cell therapy company and wholly owned independently operated subsidiary of Bayer AG, today announced positive top-line results...

Test animals, hold your breath

by admin | Jun 29, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan — Animal experimentation may not be a thing of the past just yet, but work on human iPS cell technology may someday grant emancipation for lab mice and other species. Renal proximal tubules play a major role in our kidneys’...

First-of-its-kind noninvasive CRISPR method knocks out anxiety gene

by admin | Jun 27, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Paul McClure – New Atlas Researchers have developed a noninvasive method of delivering CRISPR gene editing technology to the brains of mice, knocking out a gene that causes anxiety Anxiety affects many people, and for some, medication doesn’t help....