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by Don Gibbons - Signals Blog by CCRM A recent Wall Street Journal article reminded me of the work of someone I came to know well while at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM): Jeanne Loring of the Scripps Research Institute. The article detailed...

Building a new heart! Doris A. Taylor and her brilliant research will be showcased at the #WFIRM Regenerative Medicine Essentials Course- co-located with #worldstemcellsummit in #visitwinstonsalem June 5-9. Registrants of the event will receive certificate. The RME...

By Brielle Benyon - Cure Today Cryopreserved stem cells led to a higher rate of relapse in patients with blood cancer, though there was no difference in survival, research showed. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Marrow Donor Program declared that...

By James Gallagher - BBC News We could be entering the era of Alzheimer's treatments, after the second drug in under a year has been shown to slow the disease. Experts said we were now "on the cusp" of drugs being available, something that had recently seemed...

by Richard Westlund - University of Miami Health A multidisciplinary team at UHealth – University of Miami Health System and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine is playing a key role in a collaborative clinical trial, funded by a $7 million grant from...

Leading-Edge Experts Convene in Winston-Salem for Interdisciplinary Event to Advance Regenerative Medicine from the Lab to the Patient   WINSTON-SALEM, NC, May 6, 2023 — A lineup of prominent experts representing all aspects of research, translational medicine,...

JOIN US AT THE 2023 WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT  - June 5 - 9, 2023The 2023 World Stem Cell Summit (WSCS) will be a LIVE IN-PERSON MEETING combined with the WFIRM/RMF Regenerative Medicine Essentials Course. This year's Summit is to be held at the Wake Forest Biotech...

By Cedars Sinai The Register and Gizmodo recently interviewed Arun Sharma, PhD, a stem cell biologist in the Smidt Heart Institute, and Clive Svendsen, PhD, executive director of the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute, to discuss the...

WASHINGTON DC, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES, May 17, 2023/ EINPresswire.com/ -- The historic first "Regenerative & Rejuvenative Medicine Industry Annual Congress and Scientific Trade Show (R2M) ™" was announced today by officials. R2M will be held April 10...

Baby girl who developed a life-threatening brain condition was successfully treated before she was born—and is now a healthy seven-week-old. By Jessica Hamzelou - MIT Technology Review She doesn’t know it yet, but a baby girl living somewhere near Boston has made...

by John Cumbers - Forbes After being at the helm for over a decade of internet juggernaut Google GOOG -0.8%, former CEO Eric Schmidt has switched gears and one of his latest activities is being an advocate for the fast-growing US bioeconomy, which is valued at over...

by Innovation Quarter From developing the world’s first lab-grown organ (a bladder) to the body-on-a-chip platform used for drug toxicity testing and personalized medicine, Winston-Salem-based scientists have been integral to cutting-edge regenerative medicine...

By Michael Irving - News Atlas Scientists in Canada have developed a new technique that may one day help restore some sight to patients with inherited vision impairment. The regenerative therapy works by expressing genes that convert dormant cells into new...

Intrathecal mesenchymal stem cell-neural progenitor therapy failed to significantly improve the EDSS or the EDSS Plus versus placebo in progressive MS. by Physician's Weekly Mesenchymal stem cell-neural progenitor therapy (MSC-NPs) are bone marrow-derived cells with...

STING-seq provides roadmap to identify variants and genes, enabling deeper understanding of the noncoding genome and targets for therapies By NYU News A major challenge in human genetics is understanding which parts of the genome drive specific traits or contribute to...

by Justin Jackson - Phys.org Researchers at Sana Biotechnology, Inc., in California, have made a significant breakthrough in realizing the promise of stem cell therapy: stem cells that do not trigger an immune response from an immunologically incompatible donor. In...

By Longeveron MIAMI, May 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Longeveron Inc. (NASDAQ: LGVN) ("Longeveron" or "Company"), a clinical stage biotechnology company developing regenerative medicines for unmet medical needs, today announced new long-term follow-up data from the...

by Innovation Quarter Some things are worth traveling for. We drive the extra hour to one-of-a-kind restaurants, we cross state lines for best-in-class specialists and we travel days to experience unrivaled natural wonders. One day, there will be products that we have...

Aubrey de Grey explains why the time is right to be extremely ambitious and audacious when it comes to longevity research. By Eleanor Garth - Longevity.Technology August will see the second annual Longevity Summit take place in Dublin. Packed with keynote...

By Axiom Space First time bioprinted solid tissue constructs to be sent to the International Space Station and induced pluripotent stem cells to be manufactured in space. Microgravity allows researchers to study the behavior of cells and tissues in a unique...