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5th Man Cured Of HIV After Stem Cell Transplant
By Ty Roush - Forbes A 53-year-old man from Germany has been cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant in 2014, according to findings published Monday in Nature Medicine, as researchers say he is the fifth to be cured of the virus—which affects more than 30...
CAR T Cell-Like Therapy To Treat T Cell Leukemia (T-ALL)
by William A. Haseltine - Forbes As part of our series in cellular therapy, we previously described how CAR T therapy for treatment of B cell leukemia achieved early success in the field. T cell leukemia, however, engages a different part of the immune system and...
Scientists make key discovery in fighting brain diseases
Scientists have made a breakthrough that could make all the difference in helping treat and, one day, cure patients with neurodegenerative diseases. by Lindsey Theis - Scripps News Scientists have made a key discovery they think could be a crucial step in...
World Stem Cell Summit coming to Winston-Salem as regenerative medicine gains traction
The World Stem Cell Summit returns as a live event June 5-9. Combined with the Regenerative Medicine Essentials Course- certificate and CME credits applied for. The Summit is meant to fill an unmet need in the regenerative medicine conference world, with its focus on...
Life-saving approach may overcome persistent obstacles to cell transplantation and immunotherapy
By Ria Kakkad - Drug Target Review Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), US, have developed a novel, potentially life-saving approach that may prevent antibodies from triggering immune rejection of engineered therapeutic and transplant...
Hitting Stem Cell and CAR T Targets
Cedars-Sinai Cancer Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program Receives Expanded Accreditation and Top Ranking for Patient Survival Rates by Christina Elston - Cedars Sinai Image: Illustration of CAR (chimeric antigen receptor) T cell immunotherapy, a process...
Disgraced CRISPR-baby scientist’s ‘publicity stunt’ frustrates researchers
He Jiankui refused to answer researchers’ questions about his controversial 2018 experiments at weekend event. by Smriti Mallapaty - Nature.com He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist who shocked the world with experiments that led to the first children with edited...
UC Davis Health to develop in-utero therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
By Nadine A Yehya - UC Davis Health California’s stem cell agency funds the potential gene editing DMD therapy SACRAMENTO, CA - UC Davis Professor Aijun Wang and his team are collaborating with Murthy laboratory at UC Berkeley to develop a much-needed cure for...
Reduced cardiovascular reserve capacity in long-term allogeneic stem cell transplant survivors
By Dillon, H.T., Foulkes, S., Horne-Okano, Y.A. - Nature - Scientific Reports Abstract Premature cardiovascular mortality is increased in long-term allogeneic stem cell transplant (allo-SCT) survivors, but little information exists regarding subclinical cardiovascular...
ALS Resource Examines Gene Expression in Patient Stem Cell Derived Motor Neurons
By Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News Results of a largescale collaborative project led by scientists at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, and the University of California, Irvine (UCI), were published in the journal Neuron this week “Large-scale...
Scientists at the National Eye Institute have 3D bioprinted eye tissues from stem cells
By Paul Hanaphy - 3d Printing Industry Researchers at the USA’s National Eye Institute (NEI) have developed a way of 3D bioprinting eye tissues using patient stem cells. Using their approach, in which three different types of immature choroidal cells are printed onto...
Organs on demand: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023
Engineered organs could put an end to transplant waiting lists By Antonio Regalado - MIT Technology Review WHO eGenesis, Makana Therapeutics, United Therapeutics WHEN 10 to 15 years For two months last year, a 57-year-old man named David Bennett lived with a pig heart...