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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...

By Dillon, H.T., Foulkes, S., Horne-Okano, Y.A. - Nature - Scientific Reports Abstract Premature cardiovascular mortality is increased in long-term allogeneic stem cell transplant (allo-SCT) survivors, but little information exists regarding subclinical cardiovascular...

By Paul Hanaphy - 3d Printing Industry Researchers at the USA’s National Eye Institute (NEI) have developed a way of 3D bioprinting eye tissues using patient stem cells. Using their approach, in which three different types of immature choroidal cells are printed onto...

Engineered organs could put an end to transplant waiting lists By Antonio Regalado - MIT Technology Review WHO eGenesis, Makana Therapeutics, United Therapeutics WHEN 10 to 15 years For two months last year, a 57-year-old man named David Bennett lived with a pig heart...

By Laura Red Eagle - University of Wisconsin News Gene therapies have the potential to treat neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, but they face a common barrier — the blood-brain barrier. Now, researchers at the University of...

by University of California Irvine - Technology Networks Combating Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases by inserting healthy new immune cells into the brain has taken a leap toward reality. Neuroscientists at the University of California, Irvine and the...

By Kristin Houser - Freethink It could lead to new cancer treatments, better diagnostics tests, and more. his article is an installment of Future Explored, a weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories like this one straight to your inbox every...

WINSTON-SALEM, NC, February, 2023 -- The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) and the Regenerative Medicine Foundation (RMF) have announced that the 20th edition of the World Stem Cell Summit will be held in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in...

By Adam Felts | MIT News Students, researchers, and actors don AGNES for a taste of the friction, frustration, and fatigue that older adults often experience. Visitors to MIT’s AgeLab in the Center for Transportation and Logistics are greeted silently by a shiny...