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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...
ViaCyte and CRISPR Introduce New Stem Cell Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes
By Andrew Briskin - Link to Article In a collaboration between ViaCyte and CRISPR Therapeutics, a new clinical trial is investigating a cell therapy that may eventually help millions with type 1 diabetes. Researchers have long sought a cell-based “cure” for type 1...
UC Davis becomes first in region to grow cancer-fighting CAR T cells
Genetically modified cancer-fighting cells are now developed on campus as part of a new cellular therapy program (SACRAMENTO) Alan Gaines did two tours in the Vietnam War as a Navy fighter pilot—so being brave isn’t new to him. At 77, he was diagnosed with an...
Texas Heart Institute studying how stem cells treat heart failure
HOUSTON - (link to article) - A huge advancement in treating heart disease could be on the horizon. Researchers at the Texas Heart Institute are studying a high-tech way to use stem cells to spare lives and protect patients from the #1 killer. Your heart is a powerful...
CRISPR-Cas enzyme-based diagnostics to detect SARS-CoV-2 infection
By Dr. Tomislav Meštrović, MD, Ph.D. - Dec 13 2021 - News-Medical.net (link to article) A recent review in the journal Life provided a detailed description of CRISPR-Cas-based diagnostic techniques to identify severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2...