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By Mike Sarraille and Jason Boulay - Men's Journal Whether you're a professional athlete or just trying to stay in shape, you know the impact that even a minor injury can have on an active lifestyle. You've likely heard of stem cell therapy; it's been making headlines...

Researchers found that when they turned cancer cells into immune cells, they were able to teach other immune cells how to attack cancer. By Christopher Vaughan - Stanford Medicine News Center Some cities fight gangs with ex-members who educate kids and starve gangs of...

By Gareth John Macdonald - Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News High production costs are limiting patient access to cell and gene therapies, according to researchers who say optimizing manufacturing methods and increasing capacity industry-wide would help. Cell...

by University of Geneva Some areas of the adult brain contain quiescent, or dormant, neural stem cells that can potentially be reactivated to form new neurons. However, the transition from quiescence to proliferation is still poorly understood. A team led by...

By reNEW - Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine A patient suffering from moderate Parkinson’s disease (PD) was first out on Feb 13, 2023, to receive a transplant with the human stem cell-derived nerve cell product STEM-PD at Skåne University Hospital...

By Scott LaFee - UC San Diego Today In some children, pediatric acute myeloid leukemia can become resistant to treatment; UC San Diego researchers think they now know why. Pediatric acute myeloid leukemia or pAML is a childhood blood cancer, one that has proved...

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. - News Medical Life Sciences PETA scientists have just released a new edition of the groundbreaking Research Modernization Deal (RMD), the world's first comprehensive plan for phasing out the use of animals in experimentation. The...

By Ioana Patringenaru - UC San Diego Today A new biomaterial that can be injected intravenously, reduces inflammation in tissue and  promotes cell and tissue repair. The biomaterial was tested and proven effective in treating tissue damage caused by heart attacks in...

By Kanis Leung and Emily Wang Fujiyama  - Stat News BEIJING — Hong Kong on Tuesday revoked a visa it granted to a Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate five years ago with claims that he made the world’s first genetically edited babies, pulling it hours...

By Sharon Reynolds - NIH website Skin grafts are a vital treatment for burns and other extensive skin injuries. Since the 1980s, advances in bioengineering have allowed researchers to grow new patches of skin in the lab. Such engineered grafts are less traumatic for...

by Lawrence Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D. - NIH Director's Blog Detecting the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in middle-aged people and tracking its progression over time in research studies continue to be challenging. But it is easier to do in shorter-lived...

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Computers powered by human brain cells may sound like science fiction, but a team of researchers in the United States believes such machines, part of a new field called “organoid intelligence,” could shape the future — and now they have a...

By Ty Roush - Forbes A 53-year-old man from Germany has been cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant in 2014, according to findings published Monday in Nature Medicine, as researchers say he is the fifth to be cured of the virus—which affects more than 30...

by William A. Haseltine - Forbes As part of our series in cellular therapy, we previously described how CAR T therapy for treatment of B cell leukemia achieved early success in the field. T cell leukemia, however, engages a different part of the immune system and...

The World Stem Cell Summit returns as a live event June 5-9. Combined with the Regenerative Medicine Essentials Course- certificate and CME credits applied for. The Summit is meant to fill an unmet need in the regenerative medicine conference world, with its focus on...

By Ria Kakkad - Drug Target Review Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), US, have developed a novel, potentially life-saving approach that may prevent antibodies from triggering immune rejection of engineered therapeutic and transplant...

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program Receives Expanded Accreditation and Top Ranking for Patient Survival Rates by Christina Elston - Cedars Sinai Image: Illustration of CAR (chimeric antigen receptor) T cell immunotherapy, a process...

He Jiankui refused to answer researchers’ questions about his controversial 2018 experiments at weekend event. by Smriti Mallapaty - Nature.com He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist who shocked the world with experiments that led to the first children with edited...

By Nadine A Yehya - UC Davis Health California’s stem cell agency funds the potential gene editing DMD therapy SACRAMENTO, CA - UC Davis Professor Aijun Wang and his team are collaborating with Murthy laboratory at UC Berkeley to develop a much-needed cure for...