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Youthful Brain Stem Cells Linked to Autism and Brain Cancer

by admin | Jan 30, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Neuroscience News – Researchers have identified a unique stem cell in the young brain capable of maturing into multiple cell types, potentially explaining the origins of autism and glioblastoma. These stem cells show gene expression patterns that regulate...

The compassionate team behind CAR T cancer breakthroughs

by admin | Jan 29, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By: Nicole Sweeney Etter – Penn Medicine News – For more than a decade, Penn Medicine clinical research nurse Joanne Shea, MS, BSN, RN, has had a front-row seat to the groundbreaking research underway in the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies. As Abramson...

JPM25: Bayer moves allogeneic cell therapy into phase 3 Parkinson’s trial

by admin | Jan 28, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Gabrielle Masson – Fierce Biotech – Bayer’s Parkinson’s disease cell therapy is moving into late-stage testing, with the upcoming trial set to be the first registrational phase 3 study for an investigational allogeneic cell therapy in the...

Autologous Implants: The New Hope for Spinal Cord Injury Treatment

by admin | Jan 27, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Asaf Levon – Haaretz News – Can damaged parts of the spinal cord be replaced with functional nerve tissues? Matricelf aims to make this vision a reality with groundbreaking technology. In the company’s laboratories in Nes Ziona, a team of about...

Correcting Genetic Spelling Errors With Next-Generation Crispr

by admin | Jan 24, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Francis Collins for Wired – Treatments for rare diseases are hard to create and expensive to deliver, but there is new hope for editing the software of the genome. Sam Berns was my friend. With the wisdom of a sage, he inspired me and many others about how to...

Automated iPS cell production to start in Japan in April

by admin | Jan 23, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Jiji – The japan Times – Kyoto – Following its success in automating the process of creating induced pluripotent stem cells, Kyoto University’s CiRA Foundation will start producing iPS cells from patients’ own cells utilizing the automated...