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Staten Island teen flies to Michigan to donate stem cells to a stranger in desperate need
By Dr. Gracelyn Santos - SILive.com Binghamton sophomore and Staten Islander, Hayley Bond, 19, recently traveled to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to donate her stem cells, after being informed she was a match for a leukemia patient, in desperate need of a bone marrow...
Secondary cancers following CAR T cell therapy are rare
By Penn Medicine News - Penn Today - The development of any type of second cancer following CAR T cell therapy is a rare occurrence, as found in an analysis of more than 400 patients treated at Penn Medicine, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine report in...
Surprisingly simple model explains how brain cells organize and connect
By Matt Wood - University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division - A new study by physicists and neuroscientists from the University of Chicago, Harvard and Yale describes how connectivity among neurons comes about through general principles of networking and...
An Italian Town Full of the Elderly Wants to Feel Young Again
By Jason Horowitz - New York Times - As the traveling brass band ended San Giovanni Lipioni’s annual holiday concert with a rendition of Wham’s “Last Christmas,” the gray-haired villagers seated in the old church of the central Italian hill town gazed dotingly at the...
Japan approves new stem cell-based Alzheimer’s therapy
By Phoebe Shields - Proactive - In what could be a major breakthrough for Alzheimer's treatment, the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare has given the greenlight to a regenerative medicine technology based on administering fat-derived stem cells intravenously and...
New Mayo Clinic stem cell research to take flight into space
By Lynda De Widt - Mayo Clinic - A Mayo Clinic research experiment will be part of a payload that launches into space from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Jan. 29, subject to weather conditions and other factors. The research team from the...
World’s first IVF rhino pregnancy ‘could save species’
By Rebecca Morelle and Alison Francis - BBC News Science - A fertility breakthrough has offered hope for saving the northern white rhino from extinction - there are only two of the animals left on the planet. Scientists have achieved the world's first IVF rhino...
How Stem Cell Embryo Models Won Method of the Year
By Technology Networks - A collection of ingenious biological tools for studying the genesis of life has been awarded Nature Methods’ coveted Method of the Year award for 2023. A collection of ingenious biological tools for studying the genesis of life has been...
Noninvasive technique reveals how cells’ gene expression changes over time
By Anne Trafton - MIT News - MIT researchers can now track a cell’s RNA expression to investigate long-term processes like cancer progression or embryonic development. Sequencing all of the RNA in a cell can reveal a great deal of information about that cell’s...
Mapping the Genome of Oral Stem Cells Holds Hope for Regenerative Medicine
By Technology Networks - “Dental pulp and periodontal ligament stem cells both have the potential to develop into any type of cell in the body.” A team of researchers from the ADA Forsyth Institute and University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill used single-cell...
Could natural killer cells transform Alzheimer’s treatment?
By Labiotech - This week on the podcast, we have a conversation with Dr Paul Song, CEO of NKGen Biotech, a company with its sights set on changing the Alzheimer’s disease treatment landscape with natural killer cells. The company’s natural killer (NK) cell Alzheimer’s...
Researchers genetically modify stem cells to evade immunological rejection
By University of Arizona Health Services - One of the biggest barriers to regenerative medicine is immunological rejection by the recipient, a problem researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences are one step closer to solving after genetically modifying...