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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...
Exosomes: The rising stars of regenerative medicine
BY: Delia von Neuschatz “Is this the fountain of youth?” I ask Mayo Clinic dermatologist, Saranya Wyles, about exosomes. The rising star in regenerative medicine, Dr. Wyles’ field of expertise, exosome therapy offers enormous potential in the treatment of a host of...
The future of blood stem cell gene therapy is in vivo
From the Lieber and Kiem Labs, Hematologic Malignancies Program, Cancer Consortium. By AE Spens - FredHutch.org - Science Spotlight Nestled in the pillowy, marrow-filled interior of your bones is a special group of cells called hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) that are...
Stem cell therapy offers a new hope to repair brain damage in newborns
by Nienke Wagenaar, Lisanne Baak and Niek Van Der Aa, medicalxpress.com A few hours after Tom (not his real name) was born, he became restless and did not want to be breastfed. His mother noticed that his left arm and leg were shaking rhythmically—something was not...
Human Urine-derived Stem Cells Have Robust Regenerative Potential
by Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) researchers, who were the first to identify that stem cells in human urine have potential for tissue regenerative effects, continue their investigation into...
FDA releases 5-year action plan to combat neurodegenerative diseases
By Ken Downey Jr. at Healio.com The FDA on June 23 announced a 5-year strategy for improving and extending the lives of people with rare neurodegenerative diseases by advancing development of safe and effective medical products and facilitating access to novel...