Oct. 19, 2021 7:50 PM PT By Sara Cardine, Staff Writer Norma Marquez distinctly remembers the day she learned she had breast cancer. “It was May 1, 2018. I was diagnosed on St. Peregrine’s Feast Day,” the 43-year-old Anaheim resident recalled, explaining Peregrine is...

Image Caption: Adult stem cells (indicated by the white arrows) show promise in treating a variety of conditions, according to research by Dr. Eckhard Alt of the School of Medicine. These cells were obtained from adult adipose, or fat tissue. Credit: Dr. Eckhard...

November 9, 2021 - University of Pennsylvania - A new approach to repairing peripheral nerves marries the regenerating power of gingiva-derived mesenchymal stem cells with a biological scaffold to enable the functional recovery of nerves following a facial injury,...

By Clea Simon Harvard Correspondent - The Harvard Gazette - November 9, 2021 Link to article 100 years after discovery of insulin, replacement therapy represents ‘a new kind of medicine,’ says Stem Cell Institute co-director Douglas Melton, whose children inspired his...

November 04, 2021 08:00 ET | Source: Neurona Therapeutics SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Neurona Therapeutics, a biotherapeutics company advancing restorative neural cell therapies for the treatment of chronic neurological disorders, today announced...

Stanford researcher Maria Grazia Roncarolo has been awarded $12 million by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine for a trial aimed at improving the outcomes of stem cell transplants in children and young adults with blood cancers. November 2, 2021 - By...

By Susan Buckles Mesenchymal stem cells derived from a person's fat cells may help repair kidney damage caused by narrowing blood vessels, Mayo Clinic research has discovered. The research by Stephen Textor, M.D., and his team is published in Kidney International....

September 27, 2021 - Alofisel (darvadstrocel) is the first expanded human allogeneic adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cell therapy to be approved in Japan - Alofisel provides a potential cell-mediated closure option for patients with complex perianal fistulas...

Durham, NC – Are prematurely aged or overworked stem cells a significant factor in chronic lung disease? Findings of a study just released in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine (SCTM) say this is likely so. The study determined that repeated injury to the epithelial...

Researchers are now permitted to grow human embryos in the lab for longer than 14 days. Here’s what they could learn. By Kendall Powell -  Nature - August 31, 2021  (link to original article) It was day 13 in a set of experiments in Ali Brivanlou’s laboratory and he...

By TRACY HAMPTON | MGH News & Public Affairs  August 25, 2021 - Investigators who previously developed a recipe for turning skin cells into primitive, musclelike cells that can be maintained indefinitely in the lab without losing the potential to become mature...

UCLA study suggests researchers could analyze neurological disorders in a stem cell–derived model By Sarah C.P. Williams  August 23, 2021 - Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have developed brain...