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...

by University of Miami Miller School of Medicine - Medical and Life Science News - A new treatment approach using an older drug may enable more patients with high-risk blood cancers to receive transplanted stem cells from unrelated, partially matched donors, according...

by Imma Perfetto - Cosmos Magazine - A new addition to charged particle therapy cancer treatment developed by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation has been shown to enhance its efficacy in cell studies. The Neutron Capture Enhanced Particle...

by Oyvind Dahle - Foley & Lardner, LLP - On May 20 a major advance in stem cell and regenerative medicine was reported in Nature by a team from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (WPI-ASHBi) at Kyoto University. The team, led by Dr. Mitinori Saitou,...

By John Pastor - Virginia Tech News - Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists identify key cell pathway in glioblastoma, potentially opening new avenues for therapy. For many patients with a deadly type of brain cancer called glioblastoma, chemotherapy...

By Hilary Brueck - MSN News Insider - Eternal youth-seekers and investors alike are getting increasingly excited about a concept called "Longevity Escape Velocity." This hypothetical idea borrows its name from "escape velocity," the basic physics principle which...