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Scientists make key discovery in fighting brain diseases
Scientists have made a breakthrough that could make all the difference in helping treat and, one day, cure patients with neurodegenerative diseases. by Lindsey Theis - Scripps News Scientists have made a key discovery they think could be a crucial step in...
World Stem Cell Summit coming to Winston-Salem as regenerative medicine gains traction
The World Stem Cell Summit returns as a live event June 5-9. Combined with the Regenerative Medicine Essentials Course- certificate and CME credits applied for. The Summit is meant to fill an unmet need in the regenerative medicine conference world, with its focus on...
Life-saving approach may overcome persistent obstacles to cell transplantation and immunotherapy
By Ria Kakkad - Drug Target Review Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), US, have developed a novel, potentially life-saving approach that may prevent antibodies from triggering immune rejection of engineered therapeutic and transplant...
Hitting Stem Cell and CAR T Targets
Cedars-Sinai Cancer Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program Receives Expanded Accreditation and Top Ranking for Patient Survival Rates by Christina Elston - Cedars Sinai Image: Illustration of CAR (chimeric antigen receptor) T cell immunotherapy, a process...
Disgraced CRISPR-baby scientist’s ‘publicity stunt’ frustrates researchers
He Jiankui refused to answer researchers’ questions about his controversial 2018 experiments at weekend event. by Smriti Mallapaty - Nature.com He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist who shocked the world with experiments that led to the first children with edited...
UC Davis Health to develop in-utero therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
By Nadine A Yehya - UC Davis Health California’s stem cell agency funds the potential gene editing DMD therapy SACRAMENTO, CA - UC Davis Professor Aijun Wang and his team are collaborating with Murthy laboratory at UC Berkeley to develop a much-needed cure for...
Reduced cardiovascular reserve capacity in long-term allogeneic stem cell transplant survivors
By Dillon, H.T., Foulkes, S., Horne-Okano, Y.A. - Nature - Scientific Reports Abstract Premature cardiovascular mortality is increased in long-term allogeneic stem cell transplant (allo-SCT) survivors, but little information exists regarding subclinical cardiovascular...
ALS Resource Examines Gene Expression in Patient Stem Cell Derived Motor Neurons
By Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News Results of a largescale collaborative project led by scientists at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, and the University of California, Irvine (UCI), were published in the journal Neuron this week “Large-scale...
Scientists at the National Eye Institute have 3D bioprinted eye tissues from stem cells
By Paul Hanaphy - 3d Printing Industry Researchers at the USA’s National Eye Institute (NEI) have developed a way of 3D bioprinting eye tissues using patient stem cells. Using their approach, in which three different types of immature choroidal cells are printed onto...
Organs on demand: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023
Engineered organs could put an end to transplant waiting lists By Antonio Regalado - MIT Technology Review WHO eGenesis, Makana Therapeutics, United Therapeutics WHEN 10 to 15 years For two months last year, a 57-year-old man named David Bennett lived with a pig heart...
New nanocapsules deliver therapy brain-wide, edit Alzheimer’s gene in mice
By Laura Red Eagle - University of Wisconsin News Gene therapies have the potential to treat neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, but they face a common barrier — the blood-brain barrier. Now, researchers at the University of...
Enhancing Our Brain’s Ability To Fight Disease With CRISPR-Edited Immune Cells
by University of California Irvine - Technology Networks Combating Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases by inserting healthy new immune cells into the brain has taken a leap toward reality. Neuroscientists at the University of California, Irvine and the...