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Adipose-derived mesenchymal stromal/stem cells in type 1 diabetes treatment

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

By Nature Communications Biology – Adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (ADMSCs) represent a novel therapeutic intervention for Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). The attractiveness of ADMSCs is characterized by their immunomodulatory activities,...

Sarepta fails to win EU backing for muscle disorder gene therapy

by admin | Aug 4, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Christy Santhosh – Reuters News – Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT.O), failed to win the European drug regulator’s backing for its muscle disorder gene therapy on Friday, as the company faces intense regulatory scrutiny after two recent patient deaths...

The pandemic aged our brains, whether we got Covid or not, study find

by admin | Aug 1, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Linda Carroll NBC News – Brain aging may have sped up during the pandemic, even in people who didn’t get sick from Covid, a new study suggests. Using brain scans from a very large database, British researchers determined that during the pandemic years of 2021...

Florida Is Now a Haven for Unproven Stem-Cell Treatments

by admin | Jul 31, 2025 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Emily Mullin – WIRED – Florida is the latest state to sidestep the authority of the Food and Drug Administration by allowing patients to access certain stem-cell treatments that have not been rigorously evaluated and approved. Under a new law that went...

Stem cell therapy found to boost fertility in women with ovarian failure

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

By Celeste Krewson – Contemporary OB/GYN – Stem cell treatment may be effective for fertility restoration in women with ovarian failure, according to a recent study published in Aging (Aging-US).1 This method was associated with a 70% oocyte activation...

3D Bioprinting: How The Future of Medicine is Being Built, Layer by Layer

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

By Kevin Famuyiro – The Los Angeles Times – For years it’s been science fiction: printing a spare part for the human body on demand. But today in labs around the world that fiction is becoming a reality. 3D bioprinting, the marriage of biology and...