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NEWSWEEK Article - By Aristos Georgiou On 11/3/21 at 8:31 AM EDT - Link to article A woman suffering from a rare blood condition is on a quest to find her estranged biological father, who may enable her to get a potentially life-saving transplant if he donates his...

By Anne Trafton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology October 30, 2021 - Link to Article A new RNA-based control switch could be used to trigger production of therapeutic proteins to treat cancer or other diseases. Researchers at MIT and Harvard University have...

Oct. 19, 2021 7:50 PM PT By Sara Cardine, Staff Writer Norma Marquez distinctly remembers the day she learned she had breast cancer. “It was May 1, 2018. I was diagnosed on St. Peregrine’s Feast Day,” the 43-year-old Anaheim resident recalled, explaining Peregrine is...

Image Caption: Adult stem cells (indicated by the white arrows) show promise in treating a variety of conditions, according to research by Dr. Eckhard Alt of the School of Medicine. These cells were obtained from adult adipose, or fat tissue. Credit: Dr. Eckhard...

In the first human subject, insulin requirement dropped by 91% at 90 days. A novel investigational allogeneic stem cell-derived treatment resulted in near reversal of type 1 diabetes in a patient who had lived with the condition for about 40 years. The patient was the...

November 9, 2021 - University of Pennsylvania - A new approach to repairing peripheral nerves marries the regenerating power of gingiva-derived mesenchymal stem cells with a biological scaffold to enable the functional recovery of nerves following a facial injury,...

By Clea Simon Harvard Correspondent - The Harvard Gazette - November 9, 2021 Link to article 100 years after discovery of insulin, replacement therapy represents ‘a new kind of medicine,’ says Stem Cell Institute co-director Douglas Melton, whose children inspired his...

November 04, 2021 08:00 ET | Source: Neurona Therapeutics SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Neurona Therapeutics, a biotherapeutics company advancing restorative neural cell therapies for the treatment of chronic neurological disorders, today announced...

Stanford researcher Maria Grazia Roncarolo has been awarded $12 million by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine for a trial aimed at improving the outcomes of stem cell transplants in children and young adults with blood cancers. November 2, 2021 - By...

By Susan Buckles Mesenchymal stem cells derived from a person's fat cells may help repair kidney damage caused by narrowing blood vessels, Mayo Clinic research has discovered. The research by Stephen Textor, M.D., and his team is published in Kidney International....

September 27, 2021 - Alofisel (darvadstrocel) is the first expanded human allogeneic adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cell therapy to be approved in Japan - Alofisel provides a potential cell-mediated closure option for patients with complex perianal fistulas...

Durham, NC – Are prematurely aged or overworked stem cells a significant factor in chronic lung disease? Findings of a study just released in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine (SCTM) say this is likely so. The study determined that repeated injury to the epithelial...

Researchers are now permitted to grow human embryos in the lab for longer than 14 days. Here’s what they could learn. By Kendall Powell -  Nature - August 31, 2021  (link to original article) It was day 13 in a set of experiments in Ali Brivanlou’s laboratory and he...

By TRACY HAMPTON | MGH News & Public Affairs  August 25, 2021 - Investigators who previously developed a recipe for turning skin cells into primitive, musclelike cells that can be maintained indefinitely in the lab without losing the potential to become mature...

UCLA study suggests researchers could analyze neurological disorders in a stem cell–derived model By Sarah C.P. Williams  August 23, 2021 - Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have developed brain...

Durham, NC (August 18, 2021) – A new phase I clinical study shows, for the first time, how treatment with a type of stem cell called mesenchymal stromal cells is able to regulate important factors driving inflammation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary...

CLICK HERE TO WATCH streaming video on CBS NEWS Miami Beach, Florida - CBS Evening News — For Sergio Echeverria, it wasn't just a day at the beach. Nicknamed Aquaman, Echeverria has always considered the ocean to be his second home — but a tractor accident this winter...

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new collaboration among UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, the University of Pittsburgh and New Jersey-based biotechnology company Avalon GloboCare Corp. (NASDAQ: AVCO) aims to develop new cancer immunotherapy approaches and...

Written by Lee Ferguson - link to original news article July 27, 2021 - An institute led by the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is gaining international reach, thanks to a new partnership with a worldwide interdisciplinary network. The Tennessee...

WINSTON-SALEM, NC, July 15, 2021 - (Link to EurekAlert Article) Answering a charge from the National Science Board, the RegenMed Development Organization (ReMDO), through its RegeneratOR Workforce Development Initiative, has released the results of a national survey...