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Published in Sage Journals  - Link to article Tendons and ligaments are essential connective tissues that connect the muscle and bone. Their recovery from injuries is known to be poor, highlighting the crucial need for an effective therapy. A few reports have...

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc - news-medical.net - link to article By combining CRISPR technology with a protein designed with artificial intelligence, it is possible to awaken individual dormant genes by disabling the chemical "off switches" that silence them....

Original story from University of California, Santa Barbara People are having children later than ever before. The average age of new parents in the United States has been rising for at least the past half century. But time is tough on our bodies and our reproductive...

By Shelly Fan - Link to article De-extinction grabbed our imagination in the 90s with Jurassic Park. Scientists have since asked: how possible is it? According to a new study, nearly impossible. But wait—it’s not all bad news. While bringing back a faithful copy of an...

By Tiffany Adjei-Opong - Cornell Daily Sun - Link to Article Four years ago, a team of research physicians at Weill Cornell Medicine began treatment for an HIV patient, in the hopes of finding a cure. This February marked 14 months since the patient was free of the...

By Kyle LaHucik - Fiercebiotech.com Relapses in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), the white blood cell cancer that affects blood and bone marrow, remain an obstacle despite new treatments, as the average five-year survival rate sits at 25%. Now, researchers say they’ve...

By Nicole Karlis - Salon.com - link to article -  An estimated 10 percent of the U.S. population has been diagnosed with diabetes, a number that may be apt to rise in the near future. Peculiarly, the reason for that may have to do with the pandemic. Since the...

By Anke Brodmerkel - MDC website - Link to article Berlin Germany, March 14 2022 - Mutations that lead to muscle atrophy can be repaired with the gene editor CRISPR-Cas9. A team led by ECRC researcher Helena Escobar has now introduced the tool into human muscle stem...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35203418/ David A Yefroyev  1 , Sha Jin  1 Affiliations PMID: 35203418PMCID: PMC8869146DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines10020208 Free PMC article Abstract Neurodegenerative diseases are a group of debilitating pathologies in...

The Regenerative Medicine Foundation, in partnership with the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, is proud to announce the 2022 VIRTUAL WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT & REGENERATIVE MEDICINE ESSENTIALS COURSE, June 6 - 11, 2022. This famed six-day interactive...

image Caption: two red cells attack a white cell, the cells have been pseudo-colored - Two T-cells (red) attack an oral squamous cancer cell (white)—a fight that's part of the natural immune response. Clinical researchers are developing a new type of therapy that...

Remarkable achievement in volumetric bioprinting opens new opportunities for regenerative medicine and drug development By Davide Sher - 3D Printing Network - Link to article A team from Utrecht University (Netherlands), working on novel 3D bioprinting technologies...

Japanese researchers say they have tracked down the genetic traits of people prone to develop Alzheimer's disease by studying brain nerve cells created from induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells. The research team at Kyoto University's Center for iPS Cell...

By Archana Jyoti - The Daily Pioneer - Link to article Adopting a newer approach that may make the treatment available to people afflicting with HIV, scientists have cured a US patient with leukemia and virus infection after attempting a stem transplant on her from a...

Fingers Crossed. If it works, it will forever turn the tide in our fight against the disease. by Sebastian Skov Andersen - The Daily Beast - Link to article Last year, Jette Oppelstrup, 49, invested in a bathroom on the ground floor of her townhouse in Herlev, a...

Image Caption: James Shapiro, professor of surgery, medicine and surgical oncology at the U of A, led a new clinical trial that shows insulin-producing cells grown from stem cells are safe for transplant. (Source: University of Alberta / Richard Siemens) By Andrea...

Article by Sara Tiner  -  Link to article Mayo Clinic research is learning how stem cell therapy can treat neurodegenerative diseases. Mayo is among the first to study whether stem cell therapy might trigger healing for spinal cord injury. Research is ongoing in...

By Jason Goodyer - ScienceFocus.com - Link to article The British Heart Foundation has announced a £3-million round of funding to help to search for a cure for heart failure . This set of stunning images are some of the highlights from eight cutting-edge projects that...

image cation: Paddy Doherty receiving his single infusion of CRISPR-based therapy at a London clinic. (Courtesy of Paddy Doherty) Researchers and patients are excited about recent advancements, but such experiments have their own sets of risks and challenges By Meeri...

By Technologynetworks.com - Link to article A woman with HIV who received a cord blood stem cell transplant to treat acute myeloid leukemia has had no detectable levels of HIV for 14 months despite cessation of antiretroviral therapy (ART), according to a presentation...