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Fertility treatments could get a boost from stem cells

Fertility treatments could get a boost from stem cells

by University of Copenhagen - MedicalXpress - An unexpectedly versatile and regenerative stem cell in early embryos may be key to creating new effective fertility treatments, suggests a new study in mice from the University of Copenhagen. The paper, titled "The...

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Huntington Disease Gene Therapy Nets RMAT Designation

Huntington Disease Gene Therapy Nets RMAT Designation

By Victoria Johnson - CGT Live = The FDA has granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapeutic (RMAT) Designation to uniQure’s AMT-130 gene therapy for the potential treatment of Huntington disease (HD).1 “We’re thrilled to receive the first ever RMAT designation for...

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Lab-grown muscles reveal mysteries of rare muscle diseases

Lab-grown muscles reveal mysteries of rare muscle diseases

By Duke University - Science Daily - Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a new technique to better understand and test treatments for a group of extremely rare muscle disorders called dysferlinopathy or limb girdle muscular dystrophies 2B (LGMD2B)....

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Stem Cell Plasticity: A Double-Edged Sword

Stem Cell Plasticity: A Double-Edged Sword

by Hannah Thomasy, PhD - The Scientist - Yejing Ge explores the behavior of skin-resident stem cells in wound repair, cancer, and aging. In 1986, Harold Dvorak, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School, popularized the idea of cancer as a wound that does not heal. In...

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Unraveling the Mysteries of Stem Cells

Unraveling the Mysteries of Stem Cells

By Gret Harrison - USC Viterbi - New research harnesses machine learning and imaging to give unprecedented insight into stem cell behavior that could enable future lifesaving therapies. Stem cells are like the emergency tool kit of the human body. They have the unique...

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What New Gene Therapy Means For Sickle Cell Patients

What New Gene Therapy Means For Sickle Cell Patients

Dr. Omer Awan MD MPH CIIP - Forbes - Recently, a 12-year-old boy became the first patient with sickle cell disease to begin commercially approved gene therapy that could potentially cure the condition. Read the article - Click Here

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Study: CAR T for Prostate Cancer Shows Efficacy

Study: CAR T for Prostate Cancer Shows Efficacy

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®...

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