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By Eve Herold - Healthspan Action Coalition - Could a human regenerate an organ or a limb, like starfish or Axolotls, the little smiling salamanders that retain neoteny, or qualities rarely seen in organisms past the larval stage? And, Frankenstein aside, could...

by University of Miami Miller School of Medicine - Medical and Life Science News - A new treatment approach using an older drug may enable more patients with high-risk blood cancers to receive transplanted stem cells from unrelated, partially matched donors, according...

by Imma Perfetto - Cosmos Magazine - A new addition to charged particle therapy cancer treatment developed by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation has been shown to enhance its efficacy in cell studies. The Neutron Capture Enhanced Particle...

by Oyvind Dahle - Foley & Lardner, LLP - On May 20 a major advance in stem cell and regenerative medicine was reported in Nature by a team from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (WPI-ASHBi) at Kyoto University. The team, led by Dr. Mitinori Saitou,...

By John Pastor - Virginia Tech News - Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists identify key cell pathway in glioblastoma, potentially opening new avenues for therapy. For many patients with a deadly type of brain cancer called glioblastoma, chemotherapy...

By Hilary Brueck - MSN News Insider - Eternal youth-seekers and investors alike are getting increasingly excited about a concept called "Longevity Escape Velocity." This hypothetical idea borrows its name from "escape velocity," the basic physics principle which...

By Sandee LaMotte - CNN - Preventive neurologist Dr Richard Isaacson stared at the numbers on the fax in astonishment. Blood biomarkers of telltale signs of early Alzheimer’s disease in the brain of his patient, 55-year-old entrepreneur Simon Nicholls, had all but...

By Columbia University Irving Medical Center - A new study reveals how stem cell niche generation is regulated in bone marrow, which could lead to improvements in stem cell transplantation for the treatment of blood diseases. Bone marrow transplants give patients new...

by Kadeja Johnson - RegMedNet - A new study details findings that provide an alternative way to study human lung regeneration. A team of researchers from the Boston Medical Center (BMC; MA, USA) and Boston University (BU; MA, USA) have developed a method using...

Eduardo Cuevas - USA TODAY - Health experts are alerting travelers considering medical care abroad about a trio of recent drug-resistant bacterial infections caused by stem cell injections at Mexican clinics. After stem cell treatments abroad, three Americans became...

By Drug Target Review - Researchers found that genetic depletion of cyclophilin A results in stem cells distinctively lacking intrinsically disordered proteins. Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered the enzyme cyclophilin A is crucial for...

By Amy Marturana Winderl - HealthCentral - A look at the next-gen therapies that hope to turn the field of medicine—and treating age-related chronic conditions—upside down. Taking a person’s own cells out of their body and then putting them back in to heal damaged...

By: Rachel Tompa, Ph.D. - U. of Miami - Miller School of Medicine - There’s good news for patients with advanced melanoma. The first cellular therapy for metastatic melanoma was recently approved by the FDA. This is the first cellular therapy approved for any solid...

By Drug Target Review - Injections of cardiac spheroids into primate ventricles improved left ventricular ejection after four weeks. Researchers from Shinshu University and Keio University School of Medicine have tested a novel strategy for regenerative heart therapy....

By Baylor College of Medicine - The levels of cyclophilin A, shown here in red, decline as hematopoietic stem cells age. Image courtesy of the authors/Nature Cell Biology, 2024. Nothing lives forever, but compared to other cells in the body, hematopoietic stem cells...

By Sean J. Morrison and Gerald J. Spangrude - The Salt Lake Tribune - The people of Utah are at risk of being harmed by a law that undermines federal regulation and promotes the sale of unproven therapies. On May 1, Utah’s law SB 199, Placental Tissue Amendments, goes...

By Sanford Burnham Prebys - Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys uncover beneficial links between certain HIV drugs and Alzheimer’s disease Alzheimer’s disease (AD) currently afflicts nearly seven million people in the U.S. With this number expected to grow to nearly...

By Franny White - OHSU News - About 79% of clinical trial participants experienced measurable improvement after receiving experimental, CRISPR-based gene editing that is designed to fix a rare form of blindness, according to a paper published today in the New England...

by Michelle Jaffee - Main St. Daily News - In a first-ever human clinical trial of four adult patients, an mRNA cancer vaccine developed at the University of Florida quickly reprogrammed the immune system to attack glioblastoma, the most aggressive and lethal brain...