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Adipose-derived mesenchymal stromal/stem cells in type 1 diabetes treatment
By Nature Communications Biology - Adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (ADMSCs) represent a novel therapeutic intervention for Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). The attractiveness of ADMSCs is characterized by their immunomodulatory activities, regenerative...
Sarepta fails to win EU backing for muscle disorder gene therapy
By Christy Santhosh - Reuters News - Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT.O), failed to win the European drug regulator's backing for its muscle disorder gene therapy on Friday, as the company faces intense regulatory scrutiny after two recent patient deaths tied to the...
The pandemic aged our brains, whether we got Covid or not, study find
By Linda Carroll NBC News - Brain aging may have sped up during the pandemic, even in people who didn’t get sick from Covid, a new study suggests. Using brain scans from a very large database, British researchers determined that during the pandemic years of 2021 and...
Florida Is Now a Haven for Unproven Stem-Cell Treatments
By Emily Mullin - WIRED - Florida is the latest state to sidestep the authority of the Food and Drug Administration by allowing patients to access certain stem-cell treatments that have not been rigorously evaluated and approved. Under a new law that went into effect...
Stem cell therapy found to boost fertility in women with ovarian failure
By Celeste Krewson - Contemporary OB/GYN - Stem cell treatment may be effective for fertility restoration in women with ovarian failure, according to a recent study published in Aging (Aging-US).1 This method was associated with a 70% oocyte activation rate and...
3D Bioprinting: How The Future of Medicine is Being Built, Layer by Layer
By Kevin Famuyiro - The Los Angeles Times - For years it’s been science fiction: printing a spare part for the human body on demand. But today in labs around the world that fiction is becoming a reality. 3D bioprinting, the marriage of biology and engineering, allows...
Ankles may hold the key to new osteoarthritis therapy
by Duke University - Futurity - The ankle’s ability to regenerate cartilage uses the same mechanisms that enable some animals to grow new limbs, and it could be harnessed to repair cartilage in knees and hips hobbled by osteoarthritis. Those findings in the journal...
Engineering immune cells within the body
By National institutes of Health - Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies involve taking immune cells, called T cells, from a patient and engineering them to make a protein that lets them recognize and attack the patient’s cancer cells. CAR T cells have...
Mesenchymal stem cell therapy shows potential: Study review
by Steve Bryson, PhD - Multiple Sclerosis Today - More study needed to support evidence, researchers say. Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapy is safe and well tolerated, and leads to improvements in disability and a reduction in lesion burden in people with multiple...
We need new regulation to keep up with longevity innovation
By Danny Sullivan - Longevity.Technology - Healthspan Action Coalition's Bernard Siegel says new state laws show the federal government needs to ‘get its act together’ on patient access to innovative therapies. As a member of the Florida Bar Association for the past...
Pentagon seeks sensors to aid regenerative medicine
By Lauren C. Williams - Defense One - And as a byproduct, to boost the U.S. biotech industry. The Pentagon is looking for tiny sensors that track the health of biological tissue, part of an effort to help soldiers recover from wounds—and give the U.S. biotech industry...
Neural Stem Cell Grafts Restore Myelin in MS-Like Lesions in Mice
By - inside Precision Medicine - A new study led by scientists at the University of Cambridge has shown that induced neural stem cell (iNSC) grafts can successfully generate myelin-producing cells in mice with lesions similar to those seen in progressive multiple...