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Wearable Ultrasounds: A Sonic Leap In Regenerative Medicine
By William A. Haseltine - Forbes - In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection of interventions that restore to normal function tissues and organs that have been damaged by disease, injured by trauma, or worn by time. I include a full spectrum of...
A New Type of Immunotherapy: MSK’s Christopher Klebanoff Is Fighting Cancer Cells From the Inside Out
By Matthew Tontonoz - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center When Christopher Klebanoff, MD, came to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) from the National Cancer Institute in 2016, he was focused on a singular goal: bringing the promise of cellular...
Scientists Use Organoid Model to Identify Potential New Pancreatic Cancer Treatment
by Weil Cornell Medicine - A drug screening system that models cancers using lab-grown tissues called organoids has helped uncover a promising target for future pancreatic cancer treatments, according to a new study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine. In the...
Here’s What Happened in 2023: Biggest Innovation Quarter Stories
One of the 2023 highlights for #regenerativemedicinefoundation was our special project- World Stem Cell Summit in June at the fabulous #InnovationQuarter in #visitWinstonSalem- The 20th annual Summit was combined with the #WFIRM Regenerative Medicine Essentials Course...
How serious is FDA warning about revolutionary blood-cancer treatment?
By Alvin Powell - The Harvard Gazette - The Food and Drug Administration announced last week that it’s investigating reports of secondary cancers in patients who received CAR T-cell therapy, one of a suite of immunotherapies that have revolutionized cancer care over...
Cell therapy appears safe and effective for lymphoma in remission
(Click to Watch Video) - by University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine - Medical Xpress - A study led by researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine suggests that CAR-T immunotherapy remains a...
Robot Hand With Working Tendons Printed in One Go
By Edd Gent - IEEE Spectrum - Multimaterial 3D-printing approach produces functional devices in a single shot A skeletal robotic hand with working ligaments and tendons can now be 3D-printed in one run. The creepy accomplishment was made possible by a new approach to...
Scientists work to 3D bioprint a human heart in 5 years
By Lindsey Theis - Scripps News - A team of Stanford University engineers, cardiologists, and biology experts are at work to bioprint a fully functioning human heart to implant into a pig. Inside one of the labs that focuses on medical innovation at Stanford...
Brain scans can translate a person’s thoughts into words
By Rhiannon Williams - MIT Technology Review - A new system was able to capture exact words and phrases from the brain activity of someone listening to podcasts. A noninvasive brain-computer interface capable of converting a person’s thoughts into words could one day...
CAR-T is not harmful in lymphoma remission phenomenon
By Felix Myhill - RegMedNet - Whether or not to administer CAR-T cell therapy to cancer patients who go into remission during the therapy manufacturing window has long been a largely uninformed decision. The findings of a recent study reveal that administering CAR-T...
Healthspan for All! Healthspan Action Coalition Expands to 120 Organizations
San Francisco, CA and West Palm Beach, FL, December 13, 2023 – The nonprofit Healthspan Action Coalition (HSAC), in its first year of operations, has already assembled 120 organizations under the banner of “Healthspan.” This societal movement recognizes that with new...
FDA Approves First CRISPR Treatment in U.S.
By Alice Park - Time It was only 11 years ago that scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier first described a new way to edit genes, called CRISPR, in a scientific paper. The discovery is so game-changing that the pair earned the Nobel Prize in Chemistry...