By Technology Networks - The researchers say their findings could inform regenerative medicine in humans. Spontaneous injuries like the loss of a limb or damage to the spinal cord are impossible for humans to repair. Yet, some animals have an extraordinary capacity to...

By Smriti Mallapaty - Nature - A 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes started producing her own insulin less than three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells1. She is the first person with the disease to be treated using cells that were...

By Hogan Lovells – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday reversed the district court’s judgment in United States v. California Stem Cell Treatment Center, siding with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in finding that a stem cell clinic’s...

San Francisco, CA, September 26, 2024—October first is worldwide International Longevity Day, and the Healthspan Action Coalition will mark the day with a public rally in the heart of San Francisco’s research and healthcare community. The event, which will be led by...

By Cancer Health - Adoptive T cell therapies, in which a patient’s own immune cells are genetically engineered to target their cancer cells, have been remarkably effective in treating certain blood cancers. Unfortunately, this success has not translated to solid...

By University of Oxford - A team of international researchers at the University of Oxford (Oxford) and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has discovered a new process for repairing damaged DNA that is particularly relevant for patients...

By Drug Target Review - Cincinnati Children’s have made a significant achievement in organoid medicine, with their new study detailing how lab-grown human tissue successfully repaired damaged intestines in a rodent model. This moves decades of research efforts closer...

By Dr. Sushama R. Chaphalkar, PhD. - NewsMedical.net - Unlocking the potential of renewable β cells and precision gene editing, researchers aim to revolutionize diabetes care and bring us closer to a functional cure for type 1 diabetes. In a recent study published in...

by Jennifer Leavitt - The Cardiology Advisor - Following the approval of Casgevy for the treatment of sickle cell disease, a crusade of clinical trials are centering the therapeutic potential of CRISPR technologies. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic...

By The Stem Cellar - The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is proud to announce the allocation of $26 million to support clinical research targeting a range of cancers, heart conditions, and rare diseases. This significant funding underscores...

By UCI News - Irvine, Calif., Sept. 5, 2024 — With newly awarded funding from the National Science Foundation, researchers at the University of California, Irvine and the Keck School of Medicine of USC will seek to revolutionize the treatment of neurological diseases...

by Murdoch Children's Research Institute - Melbourne researchers have made a world first breakthrough into creating blood stem cells that closely resemble those in the human body. And the discovery could soon lead to personalised treatments for children with leukaemia...