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By Rebekah McBride - University of Wisconsin–Madison Lab-grown human heart cells provide a powerful tool to understand and potentially treat heart disease. However, the methods to produce human heart cells from pluripotent stem cells are not optimal. Fortunately, a...

Swedish prosecutors have appealed a sentence given to an Italian surgeon who was prosecuted for causing bodily harm during experimental stem-cell windpipe transplants By AP COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Swedish prosecutors on Wednesday appealed a sentence given to an...

"Algebra, much less "algebraic topology", was never my strong suit. However, reading this fascinating article definitely stimulated the 11 dimensions in my aging lawyer's brain! According to a study published in "Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience", the...

By Gail Dutton - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News Stemson Therapeutics is harvesting patient cells, generating and differentiating iPSCs, and pro-ducing dermal papilla cells in abundance Hair loss can be distressing, even devastating, but it isn’t considered...

A new method of tissue engineering is only a proof of concept for now By James Vincent - The Verge The science of tissue engineering — or growing human cells for use in medicine — is very much in its infancy, with only the simplest lab-grown cells able to be used in...

PHILADELPHIA –  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded its approval for a personalized cellular therapy developed at the University of Pennsylvania’s Abramson Cancer Center, this time for the treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory follicular...

By Jane Byrne BioPharma-Reporter The potential of cell therapy is proven, but its impact is limited by manufacturing bottlenecks. “There is broad consensus that we need to automate and quickly in order for cell therapy manufacturing to become a viable industry,...

Technical University of Munich - An international team has come a great deal closer to developing a stem cell therapy that can repair damage after a heart attack. Dr. Christine M. Poch is the first author of a study in which the researchers show how cardiac progenitor...

By Nick Lavars, Stem cells that can be engineered to take on different properties continue to show huge potential in all areas of medicine, ranging from Parkinson's disease treatments to regenerative therapies for injured tendons. Scientists adapting this technology...

by Abigail Saltmarsh - E-Magazine by Medical Expo Faraz Fazal is a researcher at the Institute for Materials and Processes at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Engineering. He says research institutes in Japan are among those making impressive strides. The...

by Beth JoJack - Medical News Today A new treatment uses stem cells to generate dopamine and reverse Parkinson’s disease symptoms in rats. Image credit: Marian Vejcik/Getty Images Parkinson’s disease damages a specific class of neurons located in the midbrain. This...

by Richard Harth Arizona State University Scientists describe a process for converting non-neuronal cells into functioning neurons able to take up residence in the brain, send out their fibrous branches across neural tissue, form synapses, dispense dopamine and...

BY: Delia von Neuschatz  “Is this the fountain of youth?” I ask Mayo Clinic dermatologist, Saranya Wyles, about exosomes. The rising star in regenerative medicine, Dr. Wyles’ field of expertise, exosome therapy offers enormous potential in the treatment of a host of...

From the Lieber and Kiem Labs, Hematologic Malignancies Program, Cancer Consortium. By AE Spens - FredHutch.org - Science Spotlight Nestled in the pillowy, marrow-filled interior of your bones is a special group of cells called hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) that are...

by Nienke Wagenaar, Lisanne Baak and Niek Van Der Aa,  medicalxpress.com A few hours after Tom (not his real name) was born, he became restless and did not want to be breastfed. His mother noticed that his left arm and leg were shaking rhythmically—something was not...

by Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) researchers, who were the first to identify that stem cells in human urine have potential for tissue regenerative effects, continue their investigation into...

By Ken Downey Jr. at Healio.com The FDA on June 23 announced a 5-year strategy for improving and extending the lives of people with rare neurodegenerative diseases by advancing development of safe and effective medical products and facilitating access to novel...

Low-Earth orbit is actually the perfect place to grow stem cells. By Maddie Bender - The Daily Beast Some time in the not-too-distant future, a patient who suffers a heart attack will spend time recovering in the hospital before a transplant. Oddly, though, their...

By Michael T. Nietzel - Forbes The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has announced that it will make a $200 million investment over the next five years to create the Gates Institute, a research and treatment center that will focus on the development of...