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Comprehensive plan for phasing out the use of animals in experimentation

by admin | Mar 10, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. – News Medical Life Sciences PETA scientists have just released a new edition of the groundbreaking Research Modernization Deal (RMD), the world’s first comprehensive plan for phasing out the use of animals in...

This Injectable Biomaterial Heals Tissues From the Inside Out

by admin | Mar 9, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Ioana Patringenaru – UC San Diego Today A new biomaterial that can be injected intravenously, reduces inflammation in tissue and promotes cell and tissue repair. The biomaterial was tested and proven effective in treating tissue damage caused by heart...

Hong Kong pulls visa for ‘CRISPR babies’ scientist He Jiankui

by admin | Mar 8, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Kanis Leung and Emily Wang Fujiyama – Stat News BEIJING — Hong Kong on Tuesday revoked a visa it granted to a Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate five years ago with claims that he made the world’s first genetically edited babies, pulling it...

Engineering skin grafts for complex body parts

by admin | Mar 7, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Sharon Reynolds – NIH website Skin grafts are a vital treatment for burns and other extensive skin injuries. Since the 1980s, advances in bioengineering have allowed researchers to grow new patches of skin in the lab. Such engineered grafts are less traumatic...

An Inflammatory View of Early Alzheimer’s Disease

by admin | Mar 6, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Lawrence Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D. – NIH Director’s Blog Detecting the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in middle-aged people and tracking its progression over time in research studies continue to be challenging. But it is easier to do in...

Move over, artificial intelligence. Scientists announce a new ‘organoid intelligence’ field

by admin | Mar 3, 2023 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Computers powered by human brain cells may sound like science fiction, but a team of researchers in the United States believes such machines, part of a new field called “organoid intelligence,” could shape the future — and now they have a...