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White House unveils billion biotech spending plan ahead of industry summit

White House unveils $2 billion biotech spending plan ahead of industry summit

by admin | Oct 8, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Jarrett Renshaw – Reuters The White House released new details on Wednesday on how it plans to invest more than $2 billion in the U.S. biotechnology sector as it hosts a meeting of government leaders to discuss the emerging industry. President Joe Biden on...

CIRM awards UCI .7 million to create regenerative medicine training program

CIRM awards UCI $2.7 million to create regenerative medicine training program

by admin | Oct 7, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

Brian Cummings, UCI professor of physical medicine & rehabilitation and founding member of the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, has received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to establish a...

KU Leuven stem cell biologists create new human cell type for research

by admin | Oct 6, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Ku Leuven Professor Vincent Pasque and his team at KU Leuven have generated a new type of human cell in the lab using stem cells. The cells closely resemble their natural counterparts in early human embryos. As a result, researchers can now better study what...

Research, DeSci, and Advocacy at Longevity Summit Dublin

by admin | Oct 3, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

This collaborative event featured luminaries from across the longevity spectrum. by Arkadi Mazin – lifespan.io It was all about collaboration: maybe not a lot of shiny new discoveries and unpublished data, but Longevity Summit Dublin 2022 brought together...

Patient’s own immune cells effective as living drug for melanoma

by admin | Oct 3, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Netherlands Cancer Institute A patient’s own immune cells, expanded into an army of billions of immune cells in a specialized laboratory, can be used as a living drug against metastatic melanoma, an aggressive type of skin cancer, as the TIL trial has shown....

Stem Cell-Gene Therapy Shows Promise in ALS Safety Trial

by admin | Oct 2, 2022 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Cedars Sinai Cedars-Sinai Investigators Confirm Safety of a Novel Therapy Targeting Motor Neurons That Die in Patients With ALS Cedars-Sinai investigators have developed an investigational therapy using support cells and a protective protein that can be delivered...