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By Hogan Lovells – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday reversed the district court’s judgment in United States v. California Stem Cell Treatment Center, siding with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in finding that a stem cell clinic’s...

San Francisco, CA, September 26, 2024—October first is worldwide International Longevity Day, and the Healthspan Action Coalition will mark the day with a public rally in the heart of San Francisco’s research and healthcare community. The event, which will be led by...

By Cancer Health - Adoptive T cell therapies, in which a patient’s own immune cells are genetically engineered to target their cancer cells, have been remarkably effective in treating certain blood cancers. Unfortunately, this success has not translated to solid...

By University of Oxford - A team of international researchers at the University of Oxford (Oxford) and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has discovered a new process for repairing damaged DNA that is particularly relevant for patients...

By Drug Target Review - Cincinnati Children’s have made a significant achievement in organoid medicine, with their new study detailing how lab-grown human tissue successfully repaired damaged intestines in a rodent model. This moves decades of research efforts closer...

By Dr. Sushama R. Chaphalkar, PhD. - NewsMedical.net - Unlocking the potential of renewable β cells and precision gene editing, researchers aim to revolutionize diabetes care and bring us closer to a functional cure for type 1 diabetes. In a recent study published in...

by Jennifer Leavitt - The Cardiology Advisor - Following the approval of Casgevy for the treatment of sickle cell disease, a crusade of clinical trials are centering the therapeutic potential of CRISPR technologies. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic...

By The Stem Cellar - The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is proud to announce the allocation of $26 million to support clinical research targeting a range of cancers, heart conditions, and rare diseases. This significant funding underscores...

By UCI News - Irvine, Calif., Sept. 5, 2024 — With newly awarded funding from the National Science Foundation, researchers at the University of California, Irvine and the Keck School of Medicine of USC will seek to revolutionize the treatment of neurological diseases...

by Murdoch Children's Research Institute - Melbourne researchers have made a world first breakthrough into creating blood stem cells that closely resemble those in the human body. And the discovery could soon lead to personalised treatments for children with leukaemia...

by Jennifer Kite-Powell - Forbes - Regenerative medicine is a segment of medicine that focuses on treatments to repair or replace damaged tissues, organs or cells and restore function from disease, ageing, trauma or congenital abnormalities. The market is estimated to...

by Blake Forman - Technology Networks - Impairing a particular stem cell surface protein could improve mobilization and availability for transplantation. Stem cell transplants have become widely used to treat diseases such as cancer, blood disorders and autoimmune...

By Michael Franco - New Atlas - A new study from MIT has revealed the exact mechanism by which fasting causes intestinal stem cells to regenerate, which is one of the practice's benefits. However, the study also showed a downside that needs to be considered when...

by Rebecca Roberts, PhD - The Scientist - With the power of self-renewal and multipotency, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) offer the possibility of regenerative treatment for a variety of medical conditions, including spinal cord injury and damage following a heart...

by Anne Trafton - MIT News - Fasting helps intestinal stem cells regenerate and heal injuries but also leads to a higher risk of cancer in mice, MIT researchers report. Low-calorie diets and intermittent fasting have been shown to have numerous health benefits: They...

By University of Missouri School of Medicine - There may be a way to slow the growth of endometrial cancer through targeted cancer cell therapy, according to new research from the University of Missouri School of Medicine. This year, around 65,000 women are expected...

By Gareth John MacDonald - Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News - A new generation of automated technologies in cell and gene therapy manufacturing systems will help more people benefit according to research identifying high production cost as the main impediment...

By Cliff Brass - Drug Target Review - Resolution Therapeutics is pioneering a novel approach to the treatment of chronic liver disease – by engineering the patient’s own macrophages to include regenerative properties. Cliff Brass, Chief Medical Officer at Resolution...

By Abe Rosenberg - City of Hope - When Camila Quino's acute lymphoblastic leukemia returned for a third time, a stem cell transplant was the 24-year-old's last option. Finding a new best friend wasn't a part of the plan Back in 2022, when they were total strangers,...

by National Institutes of Natural Sciences - Phys.org - Embryonic stem (ES) cells are pluripotent stem cells that can produce all cell types of an organism. ES cells proliferate rapidly and have been thought to experience high levels of intrinsic replication stress....