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Human synovial mesenchymal stem cells show time-dependent morphological changes and increased adhesion to degenerated porcine cartilage

by admin | Dec 1, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Takahiro Tanimoto, Kentaro Endo, Yuriko Sakamaki, Nobutake Ozeki, Hisako Katano, Mitsuru Mizuno, Hideyuki Koga & Ichiro Sekiya – Scientific Reports Abstract The possibility that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can adhere to partial defects or degenerative...

Greenstone Bio Secures .3M from CIRM for iPSC-derived Cardiovascular Cell Technologies

Greenstone Bio Secures $1.3M from CIRM for iPSC-derived Cardiovascular Cell Technologies

by admin | Nov 30, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By By Cade Hildreth, BioInformant Palo Alto, CA – Greenstone Biosciences, Inc. (“Greenstone Bio”), a commercial-stage computational biology company, announces that the Company has received a DISC0 grant funding from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine...

Second death linked to potential antibody treatment for Alzheimer’s disease

by admin | Nov 28, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Charles Piller – Science image caption: There are two hallmarks of Alzheimer’s dementia, amyloid-beta protein deposits known as plaques among brain cells (yellow-orange bundles), and tangles of a protein called tau inside neurons (wiry objects inside the...

A cell biologist shares the wonder of researching life’s most fundamental form

by admin | Nov 25, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Terry Gross – NPR news Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee still remembers the first cell he cultured: It was an immune cell from a mouse, and he had grown it in a petri dish. As he examined it through a microscope, the cell moved, and Mukherjee was fascinated....

Biologists Create a New Type of Human Cells

by admin | Nov 21, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

The new model cells aid in the study of early embryonic development. by KU Leuven – SciTechDaily Professor Vincent Pasque and his colleagues at KU Leuven have used stem cells to create a new kind of human cell in the lab. The new cells closely mirror their...

Stem Cell Transplant May Halt Nerve Fiber Damage in RRMS: Study

by admin | Nov 20, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

Markers of nerve damage fell significantly in most patients after transplant by Marisa Wexler – Multiple Sclerosis News Today Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant (aHSCT) reduces markers of nerve fiber and myelin damage in people with...