by Ian Haydon, University of Washington School of Medicine - Phys.org - Using computer-designed proteins, researchers have now shown they are able to direct human stem cells to form new blood vessels in the lab. This milestone in regenerative medicine offers new hope...

By Laurie Kaiser - University of Buffalo - When the myelin sheath that surrounds nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord becomes damaged, a number of debilitating conditions can result that limit mobility, inhibit independence and reduce life expectancy. Multiple...

by Isabella Ciccone, MPH - Nueurology Live - Recently, the FDA granted regenerative medicine advanced therapy (RMAT) designation to uniQure’s investigational Huntington disease (HD) gene therapy AMT-130 based on interim data from a phase 1/2 trial (NCT04120493) and a...

By Ryan Browne - CNBC - PARIS, France — French beauty and cosmetics giant L'Oreal is working on a form of synthetically produced skin that it says will one day be able to "feel" like we do. At the Viva Technology conference in Paris last week, L'Oreal showed off...

by Letisia Marquez - City of Hope - Treating prostate cancer with immunotherapy is currently difficult to do. But preliminary results from a first in-human phase 1 trial using a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy developed by researchers from City of Hope®...

by Alejandra Manjarrez, PhD - Drug Discovery News - Researchers harvest stem cells from patients who have recently had a heart attack and use them to trigger regeneration of their cardiac muscle. For many people, surviving a heart attack is just the beginning. Within...

by YUTA MAEDA - Nikkei - TOKYO -- A Japanese startup is poised to become the first in the world to seek government approval for a therapy derived from human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, Nikkei has learned, with a less invasive alternative for treating heart...

By NeuroscienceNews.com - Two studies reveal that scientists have misidentified gut stem cells, impacting research and treatments for 15 years. Researchers identified the true stem cells in a different gut region, which could lead to breakthroughs in regenerative...

by The Kitalys Institute - FRIDAY JUNE 14, 2024 Co-Moderators Lee Rubin, PhD, Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Lawrence Steinman, MD, Zimmermann Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, and Pediatrics Stanford...

by Megan Giboney - RegMedNet - Ohio State University (USA) researchers have developed a novel non-viral gene therapy to treat discogenic back pain, a type of chronic low back pain that results from the degeneration of intervertebral discs. Intervertebral discs...

By The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) Winston-Salem, North Carolina - WFIRM has announced that the 11th annual Regenerative Medicine Essentials Course will again be held in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with both hybrid and in-person options....

By Eve Herold - Healthspan Action Coalition - Could a human regenerate an organ or a limb, like starfish or Axolotls, the little smiling salamanders that retain neoteny, or qualities rarely seen in organisms past the larval stage? And, Frankenstein aside, could...