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UC San Diego Health among First in Nation to Perform Regenerative Brain Cell Procedure for Epilepsy
The new experimental cell therapy is part of a national clinical trial aimed at eliminating seizures By Annie Pierce - UC San Diego Today In what could lead to a revolutionary advancement in the treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy, UC San Diego Health has become one...
Pioneering Stem Cell Therapy Offers New Hope for Epilepsy Treatment
By Neuroscience.com Researchers embarked on a groundbreaking clinical trial involving the injection of regenerative cells into the brain to treat epileptic seizures. This experimental therapy, called NRTX-1001, has the potential to offer drug-resistant temporal lobe...
Gene therapy eyedrops restored a boy’s sight. Similar treatments could help millions
by LAURA UNGAR and FREIDA FRISARO - MedicalXpress Dr. Alfonso Sabater pulled up two photos of Antonio Vento Carvajal's eyes. One showed cloudy scars covering both eyeballs. The other, taken after months of gene therapy given through eyedrops, revealed no scarring on...
AI is transforming every aspect of science. Here’s how.
By Saikiran Chandha - Live Science In the future, research labs will embrace the transformative potential of artificial intelligence to tackle wicked problems and speed up scientific discovery. Scientific laboratories of the future probably won't have flying robots,...
Scientists find the key to potentially reversing Parkinson’s disease
by David McManus - Disability Support Guide A new breakthrough in Parkinson’s disease research has moved scientists one step closer to a significant treatment. Researchers were able to yield significant results through transplanting the skin cells of two people with...
Cell and gene therapy is coming of age
By Center for Breakthrough Medicine - BIOPHARMADIVE The enormous impact the pandemic had on the biopharma industry is unmistakable, as evidenced by the unprecedented investments that took place in the cell and gene therapy (CGT) space. In January 2022, the Milken...
Grow-your-own stem cells may repair Parkinson’s damage
By Bronwyn Thompson - New Atlas A new stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease is one step closer to human trials after scientists were able to successfully rebuild neural damage in an animal model. Researchers from Scripps Research and Cardiff University used...
Researchers turn to CRISPR to unlock one of the trickiest diseases to treat: Alzheimer’s
By Andrew Joseph - Stat News When the genome-editing tool CRISPR is thought of as a potential medicine, the targets that first come to mind are diseases like sickle cell or other conditions caused by particular mutations. Use CRISPR to fix that mutation, the idea...
The next genomics wave: The powerful era of single-cell genomics
By The Harvard Gazette For more than 20 years, scientists have been able to unravel the sequence of the human genome, the precise recipe of everyone’s DNA. That has led to incredible advances in discovering genes responsible for countless diseases. But within the last...
Researchers visualize activity of CRISPR genetic scissors in real time
by Leipzig University - Phys.org When bacteria are attacked by a virus, they can defend themselves with a mechanism that fends off the genetic material introduced by the intruder. The key is CRISPR-Cas protein complexes. It is only in the last decade that their...
Making Genetically Engineered Stem Cells Viable
Growing and selection are crucial. by Josh Conway - Lifespan.io CRISPR is still imperfect While the accuracy of genetic modification through the well-known CRISPR/Cas9 system continues to improve, the technology remains imperfect. Small mistakes were initially...
Stem Cell Medical Tourism Leads to Meningitis in MS Patient
— Difficult infection took weeks to identify; doctors warn about unproven treatments by Sophie Putka - MedPage Today A woman with multiple sclerosis (MS) who had intrathecal injections of umbilical cord stem cells in Mexico ended up with a severe Mycobacterium...