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What can squid brains teach us about nervous system evolution?
Hanae Armitage - Stanford Medicine If you ask me, there's nothing quite so weird and wonderful as a cuttlefish. Or a squid. Or an octopus. Basically, the whole cephalopod gang. Maybe it's their gangly, elegant appendages, or their sleek, streamlined bodies gliding...
CAR T-Cell Therapy Helps Lupus Patients Enter Remission In Small Study
The therapy, typically used to treat blood cancer, has so far induced remission in six patients in Germany. By Kaitlin Sullivan - Health.com An immunotherapy used to treat blood cancer also shows promise as a treatment for lupus, new research shows. The news comes...
Japanese regulations on regenerative medicine are failing patients
by Kyoto University - Medical Express Image Caption: The Act on the Safety of Regenerative Medicine (ASRM) targets to regulate medical practices that aim to achieve the “reconstruction, repair, or formation of human body structures or functions” or the “therapy or...
Pregnancy in space: studying stem cells in zero gravity may determine whether it’s safe
By Joanna Bridger and Emmanouil Karteris – The Conversation Space is a hostile, extreme environment. It’s only a matter of time before ordinary people are exposed to this environment, either by engaging in space tourism or by joining self-sustaining colonies far away...
Human brain cells transplanted into baby rats’ brains grow and form connections
BREAKING NEWS! This just in, promising research for understanding human #neuropsychiatric disorders, as reported in the MIT Technology Review: "Human #neurons transplanted into a rat’s brain continue to grow, forming connections with the animals’ own brain cells and...
The blood stem cell research that could change medicine of the future
by University of New South Wales - Phys.org image: The microfluidic device that emulated an embryo's heartbeat and blood circulation. The cell seeding channels are indicated by red food dye, while the heart ventricular contraction control channels and circulation...
Increasing angiogenic efficacy of conditioned medium using light stimulation of human adipose-derived stem cells
by Yu-Jin Kim, Sang Ho Lee, Jisoo Im, Jihun Song, Han Young Kim & Suk Ho Bhang - Communications Biology Abstract Conditioned medium (CM) contains various therapeutic molecules produced by cells. However, the low concentration of therapeutic molecules in CM is a major...
White House unveils $2 billion biotech spending plan ahead of industry summit
By Jarrett Renshaw - Reuters The White House released new details on Wednesday on how it plans to invest more than $2 billion in the U.S. biotechnology sector as it hosts a meeting of government leaders to discuss the emerging industry. President Joe Biden on Monday...
CIRM awards UCI $2.7 million to create regenerative medicine training program
Brian Cummings, UCI professor of physical medicine & rehabilitation and founding member of the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, has received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to establish a training...
KU Leuven stem cell biologists create new human cell type for research
By Ku Leuven Professor Vincent Pasque and his team at KU Leuven have generated a new type of human cell in the lab using stem cells. The cells closely resemble their natural counterparts in early human embryos. As a result, researchers can now better study what...
Research, DeSci, and Advocacy at Longevity Summit Dublin
This collaborative event featured luminaries from across the longevity spectrum. by Arkadi Mazin - lifespan.io It was all about collaboration: maybe not a lot of shiny new discoveries and unpublished data, but Longevity Summit Dublin 2022 brought together researchers,...
Patient’s own immune cells effective as living drug for melanoma
By Netherlands Cancer Institute A patient's own immune cells, expanded into an army of billions of immune cells in a specialized laboratory, can be used as a living drug against metastatic melanoma, an aggressive type of skin cancer, as the TIL trial has shown. The...