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Frozen Stem Cell Grafts Linked to Higher Relapse Rates in Blood Cancer
By Brielle Benyon - Cure Today Cryopreserved stem cells led to a higher rate of relapse in patients with blood cancer, though there was no difference in survival, research showed. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Marrow Donor Program declared that...
New Alzheimer’s drug slows disease by a third
By James Gallagher - BBC News We could be entering the era of Alzheimer's treatments, after the second drug in under a year has been shown to slow the disease. Experts said we were now "on the cusp" of drugs being available, something that had recently seemed...
Innovative Clinical Trial Could Transform Stem Cell Heart Regeneration Therapy
by Richard Westlund - University of Miami Health A multidisciplinary team at UHealth – University of Miami Health System and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine is playing a key role in a collaborative clinical trial, funded by a $7 million grant from...
2023 Media Advisory for the 20th Annual WSCS
Leading-Edge Experts Convene in Winston-Salem for Interdisciplinary Event to Advance Regenerative Medicine from the Lab to the Patient WINSTON-SALEM, NC, May 6, 2023 — A lineup of prominent experts representing all aspects of research, translational medicine,...
Less Than Two Weeks To Go Before Event That Started A Movement – The World Stem Cell Summit
JOIN US AT THE 2023 WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT - June 5 - 9, 2023The 2023 World Stem Cell Summit (WSCS) will be a LIVE IN-PERSON MEETING combined with the WFIRM/RMF Regenerative Medicine Essentials Course. This year's Summit is to be held at the Wake Forest Biotech...
Stem Cells to Be Made on Orbiting Space Station to Test Microgravity Manufacturing
By Cedars Sinai The Register and Gizmodo recently interviewed Arun Sharma, PhD, a stem cell biologist in the Smidt Heart Institute, and Clive Svendsen, PhD, executive director of the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute, to discuss the...
Historic First Regenerative & Rejuvenative Medicine Industry Annual Congress and Scientific Trade Show™ Announced
WASHINGTON DC, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES, May 17, 2023/ EINPresswire.com/ -- The historic first "Regenerative & Rejuvenative Medicine Industry Annual Congress and Scientific Trade Show (R2M) ™" was announced today by officials. R2M will be held April 10...
Doctors have performed brain surgery on a fetus in one of the first operations of its kind
baby girl who developed a life-threatening brain condition was successfully treated before she was born—and is now a healthy seven-week-old. By Jessica Hamzelou - MIT Technology Review She doesn’t know it yet, but a baby girl living somewhere near Boston has made...
Why Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Is Betting Big On The $1T US Bioeconomy
by John Cumbers - Forbes After being at the helm for over a decade of internet juggernaut Google GOOG -0.8%, former CEO Eric Schmidt has switched gears and one of his latest activities is being an advocate for the fast-growing US bioeconomy, which is valued at over...
The Innovation Ecosystem of Winston-Salem’s RegenMed Hub
by Innovation Quarter From developing the world’s first lab-grown organ (a bladder) to the body-on-a-chip platform used for drug toxicity testing and personalized medicine, Winston-Salem-based scientists have been integral to cutting-edge regenerative medicine...
Gene therapy could help restore vision lost to degenerative disease
By Michael Irving - News Atlas Scientists in Canada have developed a new technique that may one day help restore some sight to patients with inherited vision impairment. The regenerative therapy works by expressing genes that convert dormant cells into new...
Stem Cell Therapy Improves Walking in More Advanced Progressive MS
by Physician's Weekly Mesenchymal stem cell-neural progenitor therapy (MSC-NPs) are bone marrow-derived cells with trophic and immunomodulatory properties. Their therapeutic potential in MS was evaluated in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 2 trial....