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Signs of Alzheimer’s were everywhere. Then his brain improved
By Sandee LaMotte - CNN - Preventive neurologist Dr Richard Isaacson stared at the numbers on the fax in astonishment. Blood biomarkers of telltale signs of early Alzheimer’s disease in the brain of his patient, 55-year-old entrepreneur Simon Nicholls, had all but...

Building More Homes for Hematopoietic Stem Cells
By Columbia University Irving Medical Center - A new study reveals how stem cell niche generation is regulated in bone marrow, which could lead to improvements in stem cell transplantation for the treatment of blood diseases. Bone marrow transplants give patients new...

Inhale, exhale, in vitro: generating epithelial iPSCs
by Kadeja Johnson - RegMedNet - A new study details findings that provide an alternative way to study human lung regeneration. A team of researchers from the Boston Medical Center (BMC; MA, USA) and Boston University (BU; MA, USA) have developed a method using...
Stem cell injections in Mexico can be hazardous. Report identifies US victims.
Eduardo Cuevas - USA TODAY - Health experts are alerting travelers considering medical care abroad about a trio of recent drug-resistant bacterial infections caused by stem cell injections at Mexican clinics. After stem cell treatments abroad, three Americans became...

How hematopoietic stem cells retain their regenerative potential
By Drug Target Review - Researchers found that genetic depletion of cyclophilin A results in stem cells distinctively lacking intrinsically disordered proteins. Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered the enzyme cyclophilin A is crucial for...

Parkinson’s patient moves freely again after world-first implant of lab-grown cells into his brain
By Roselyne Min with EBU - Euronews.Health Parkinson’s patient Thomas Matsson was the first in the world to receive 7 million lab-grown brain cells in 2023. Today, he can smell and play sports. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have successfully implanted 7...

Regenerative Medicine Is Changing the Way We Age
By Amy Marturana Winderl - HealthCentral - A look at the next-gen therapies that hope to turn the field of medicine—and treating age-related chronic conditions—upside down. Taking a person’s own cells out of their body and then putting them back in to heal damaged...

Cell Therapy is Now on The Table for Metastatic Melanoma
By: Rachel Tompa, Ph.D. - U. of Miami - Miller School of Medicine - There’s good news for patients with advanced melanoma. The first cellular therapy for metastatic melanoma was recently approved by the FDA. This is the first cellular therapy approved for any solid...

Accelerating cardiac regenerative therapy with HiPSC spheroids
By Drug Target Review - Injections of cardiac spheroids into primate ventricles improved left ventricular ejection after four weeks. Researchers from Shinshu University and Keio University School of Medicine have tested a novel strategy for regenerative heart therapy....

Uncovering the secret of long-lived stem cells
By Baylor College of Medicine - The levels of cyclophilin A, shown here in red, decline as hematopoietic stem cells age. Image courtesy of the authors/Nature Cell Biology, 2024. Nothing lives forever, but compared to other cells in the body, hematopoietic stem cells...

Opinion: Stem cell biologists are concerned a Utah law will lead to a boom in snake oil sales
By Sean J. Morrison and Gerald J. Spangrude - The Salt Lake Tribune - The people of Utah are at risk of being harmed by a law that undermines federal regulation and promotes the sale of unproven therapies. On May 1, Utah’s law SB 199, Placental Tissue Amendments, goes...

Common HIV treatments may aid Alzheimer’s disease patients
By Sanford Burnham Prebys - Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys uncover beneficial links between certain HIV drugs and Alzheimer’s disease Alzheimer’s disease (AD) currently afflicts nearly seven million people in the U.S. With this number expected to grow to nearly...