NEWS and OPINIONS
UPDATE: Convicted Italian Surgeon Gets Sentence Appealed in High-Profile Case
Swedish prosecutors have appealed a sentence given to an Italian surgeon who was prosecuted for causing bodily harm during experimental stem-cell windpipe transplants By AP COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Swedish prosecutors on Wednesday appealed a sentence given to an...
Scientists Find A Multidimensional Universe Inside the Human Brain
"Algebra, much less "algebraic topology", was never my strong suit. However, reading this fascinating article definitely stimulated the 11 dimensions in my aging lawyer's brain! According to a study published in "Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience", the...
Mayo Clinic – Bringing Regenerative Technology of the Future to Patients Today
By Susan Buckles "The sky's the limit," "possibility" and "potential cure for disease" are aspirational ways Mayo Clinic physicians and scientists described regenerative medicine in a recent virtual presentation at the World Stem Cell Summit 2022. Mayo's panel...
Hair Loss Treatment Uses Stem Cells to Generate Healthy New Follicles
By Gail Dutton - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News Stemson Therapeutics is harvesting patient cells, generating and differentiating iPSCs, and pro-ducing dermal papilla cells in abundance Hair loss can be distressing, even devastating, but it isn’t considered...
:format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/70912912/Image_4.0.jpg "Scientists grow cells on a robot skeleton (but don’t know what to do with them yet)")
Scientists grow cells on a robot skeleton (but don’t know what to do with them yet)
A new method of tissue engineering is only a proof of concept for now By James Vincent - The Verge The science of tissue engineering — or growing human cells for use in medicine — is very much in its infancy, with only the simplest lab-grown cells able to be used in...
Penn Medicine Developed CAR T Cell Therapy Wins Third FDA Approval
PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded its approval for a personalized cellular therapy developed at the University of Pennsylvania’s Abramson Cancer Center, this time for the treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory follicular...
How do you expand cell therapy manufacturing to reach more patients per year?
By Jane Byrne BioPharma-Reporter The potential of cell therapy is proven, but its impact is limited by manufacturing bottlenecks. “There is broad consensus that we need to automate and quickly in order for cell therapy manufacturing to become a viable industry,...
Cardiac progenitor cells generate healthy tissue after a heart attack
Technical University of Munich - An international team has come a great deal closer to developing a stem cell therapy that can repair damage after a heart attack. Dr. Christine M. Poch is the first author of a study in which the researchers show how cardiac progenitor...
Pre-made stem cells may be pulled off the shelf to treat aggressive cancer
By Nick Lavars, Stem cells that can be engineered to take on different properties continue to show huge potential in all areas of medicine, ranging from Parkinson's disease treatments to regenerative therapies for injured tendons. Scientists adapting this technology...
3D Bioprinting: Japan’s Advances in Creating Living Tissue
by Abigail Saltmarsh - E-Magazine by Medical Expo Faraz Fazal is a researcher at the Institute for Materials and Processes at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Engineering. He says research institutes in Japan are among those making impressive strides. The...
Parkinson’s: Promising stem cell treatment reverses symptoms in rodents
by Beth JoJack - Medical News Today A new treatment uses stem cells to generate dopamine and reverse Parkinson’s disease symptoms in rats. Image credit: Marian Vejcik/Getty Images Parkinson’s disease damages a specific class of neurons located in the midbrain. This...
Designer neurons offer new hope for treatment of Parkinson’s disease
by Richard Harth Arizona State University Scientists describe a process for converting non-neuronal cells into functioning neurons able to take up residence in the brain, send out their fibrous branches across neural tissue, form synapses, dispense dopamine and...