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Researchers report third case of HIV remission after stem cell transplant using umbilical cord blood
By Tasnim Ahmed, CNN - Link to article A US woman has become the third known person who’s gone into HIV remission, and the first mixed-race woman, thanks to a transplant of stem cells from umbilical cord blood, according to research presented at a conference Tuesday....
CAR-T poised to create ‘paradigm shift’ in non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Article from Helio.com - Link to article Results from a randomized phase 3 study saw one CAR-T significantly outperform the current standard of care among patients with relapsed or refractory disease, according to study investigator Manali Kamdar, MD. “The patients I...
UCLA researchers use stem cells to work toward refining cancer-fighting technology
By Lisa Huiqin Wang - Link to article The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA (pictured above) is located at the south end of campus. In November 2021, researchers at the center published a study detailing a new, more...
Bills to ban research on cells obtained from abortions pass Michigan House
By Lauren Gibbons - Link to article Two bills passed by the Michigan House Wednesday aim to ban research on cells obtained from abortion procedures, although critics said the premise violates the state constitution. House Bills 5558 and 5559, sponsored by state Reps....
Stem Cell Therapy Shows Early Promise for the Treatment of Lupus
By Lauren Gibbons - Link to article Two bills passed by the Michigan House Wednesday aim to ban research on cells obtained from abortion procedures, although critics said the premise violates the state constitution. House Bills 5558 and 5559, sponsored by state Reps....
Kidney-Like 3D Tissue Created From Stem Cells
From Technology Networks Cell Science (Link to article) A research team based in Kumamoto University (Japan) has created complex 3D kidney tissue in the lab solely from cultured mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. These organoids could lead the way to better kidney...
Individual dosing of preparatory drug makes stem cell transplants safer for children
From News-Medical.net (Link to article) Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc Individual dosing of a drug used to prepare children for stem cell transplantation makes this treatment safer. That's according to new research by scientists from the Princess Máxima Center and...
New approach to CAR T-cell therapy for B-cell cancers triples the targeted antigens on cancer cells
From News-Medical.net (Link to article) Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc Researchers at University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University have developed a novel approach to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for B-cell cancers...
Researchers engineer human spinal cord implants to treat paralysis
By Nate MacKay - Courthouse News Service (Link to article) The implanted tissues successfully restored walking abilities in 80% of the lab models with chronic paralysis. (CN) — Researchers engineered and implanted functional human spinal cord tissues that showed...
‘The last piece’: Scientists in Japan hail new stem cells as step toward artificial life
TOKYO - The Mainichi (Link to Atricle) A team of scientists from Japan's Riken research institute and Chiba University has succeeded in producing a type of stem cell from mouse cells that researchers hope could further study on artificially reconstructing life. The...
Blending machine learning and biology to predict cell fates and other changes
by Greta Friar - Link to Full Article with Video Imagine a ball thrown in the air: it curves up, then down, tracing an arc to a point on the ground some distance away. The path of the ball can be described with a simple mathematical equation, and if you know the...
Researchers label early CAR-T therapy patient ‘cured’ after living a decade without cancer
By Angus Chen - Link to Article In 2010, Doug Olson became the second person in the world to receive CAR-T cell therapy, an experimental tactic to engineer his own immune cells to fight cancer. His doctors had tempered expectations for how well it would fight off...