By Purdue University - With age, some cells in the brain enter a state of senescence: rather than dying or regenerating by dividing, they just linger, alive, but functioning less effectively than normal cells. Senescence in the brain has been linked to cognitive...

By Alexis Rivas - NBC Channel 7 News, San Diego CA - A federal appeals court handed the FDA power to shut down unproven stem cell treatments The future of stem cell clinics across San Diego County, California, and the country are at risk. A federal appeals court in...

By Michael Irving - New Atlas - A patient with type 1 diabetes has been functionally cured of the disease, requiring no insulin doses for over a year. The treatment involves growing and transplanting new insulin-producing cells from the patient’s own stem cells. Type...

By Technology Networks - The researchers say their findings could inform regenerative medicine in humans. Spontaneous injuries like the loss of a limb or damage to the spinal cord are impossible for humans to repair. Yet, some animals have an extraordinary capacity to...

By Smriti Mallapaty - Nature - A 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes started producing her own insulin less than three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells1. She is the first person with the disease to be treated using cells that were...

By Hogan Lovells – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday reversed the district court’s judgment in United States v. California Stem Cell Treatment Center, siding with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in finding that a stem cell clinic’s...

San Francisco, CA, September 26, 2024—October first is worldwide International Longevity Day, and the Healthspan Action Coalition will mark the day with a public rally in the heart of San Francisco’s research and healthcare community. The event, which will be led by...

By Cancer Health - Adoptive T cell therapies, in which a patient’s own immune cells are genetically engineered to target their cancer cells, have been remarkably effective in treating certain blood cancers. Unfortunately, this success has not translated to solid...

By University of Oxford - A team of international researchers at the University of Oxford (Oxford) and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has discovered a new process for repairing damaged DNA that is particularly relevant for patients...

By Drug Target Review - Cincinnati Children’s have made a significant achievement in organoid medicine, with their new study detailing how lab-grown human tissue successfully repaired damaged intestines in a rodent model. This moves decades of research efforts closer...

By Dr. Sushama R. Chaphalkar, PhD. - NewsMedical.net - Unlocking the potential of renewable β cells and precision gene editing, researchers aim to revolutionize diabetes care and bring us closer to a functional cure for type 1 diabetes. In a recent study published in...

by Jennifer Leavitt - The Cardiology Advisor - Following the approval of Casgevy for the treatment of sickle cell disease, a crusade of clinical trials are centering the therapeutic potential of CRISPR technologies. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic...