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Ground-breaking stem cell procedure restores patient’s mobility and joy for life

by admin | Dec 22, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By The Ottawa Hospital – The Globe and Mail Treatment developed at The Ottawa Hospital can halt MS progression and potentially reverse symptoms When Geneviève Bétournay developed blurry vision and pain in her hips 12 years ago, she was shocked to be diagnosed...

Researchers use CRISPR-edited T cells to treat seriously ill children with resistant leukaemia

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

By Medical News Life Sciences Researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) and UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH) have used CRISPR/Cas9 technology to engineer donor T cells to try to treat seriously ill children with...

Stem Cell Study Shows How Neurons from PTSD Patients React to Stress

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

By Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News A study by scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the Yale School of Medicine, and the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute (NYSCF)...

Desperate covid long-haulers turn to costly, unproven treatments

by admin | Dec 19, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Frances Stead Sellers – The Washington Post For the burgeoning population of covid long-haulers, there is an abundance of new treatment options: Specially formulated nutraceuticals imported from India that promise to “get you life back from covid.” Pure...

Cancer: ‘Single-step’ CRISPR treatment may provide lifelong protection

by admin | Dec 16, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by By Beth JoJack – Medical News Today For the first time, researchers have used CRISPR gene-editing technology to substitute a gene in a patient’s immune cells to redirect those cells to fight cancer. Details of a small human clinical trial using this approach...

MIT researchers reveal DNA ‘Paste’ tech behind latest gene editing startup

by admin | Dec 15, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Lei Lei Wu – EndpointsNews MIT scientists have developed a tool that they say can insert large gene sequences where they want in the genome. In a paper published Thursday in Nature Biotechnology, MIT fellows Omar Abudayyeh, Jonathan Gootenberg and colleagues...