This Widely-Used Antidepressant Could Be a Powerful New Weapon Against Cancer

by admin | Sep 12, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By By Tiare Dunlap, University of California – SciTechDaily – Antidepressants help immune cells fight cancer. They may improve therapy effectiveness. A commonly prescribed antidepressant may also strengthen the body’s defenses against cancer, according to...

Rebuilding a liver with the help of macrophages

by admin | Sep 11, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Alejandra Manjarrez, PhD – Exploring Drug Discovery and Development = Macrophage-based therapies for liver cirrhosis are entering clinical trials, but key challenges remain before they become a viable treatment. Macrophages — key players of the immune system...

Spaceflight Accelerates Human Stem Cell Aging, UC San Diego Researchers Find

by admin | Sep 10, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By UC San Diego Today – Findings reveal space-induced genetic, mitochondrial and inflammatory stress in blood-forming stem cells, offering insight into aging and risk of disease during long-duration space travel. Researchers from University of California San...

The Promise of Stem Cells: From Healing Hearts to Protecting Pandas

by admin | Sep 9, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Andrea Lius, PhD – The Scientist – Researchers bank on stem cells to study developmental biology, understand oral cancer, regenerate organs, and save species on the brink of extinction. Stem cells can self-renew and differentiate into a wide variety of...

Universal plug-and-play CAR-T cell therapy could transform cancer immunotherapy

by admin | Sep 8, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by University of Chicago Medical Center – MedicalXpress – Researchers at the University of Chicago have developed a “universal” chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) platform that offers enhanced safety, adaptability, and the potential to overcome...

Stopping time in cells exposes life’s fastest secrets

by admin | Sep 5, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By The University of Osaka – Science Daily – Researchers from The University of Osaka develop time-deterministic cryo-optical microscopy, which freezes cells with millisecond precision, enabling accurate, high-resolution visualization of transient moments...