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BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Akron Biotechnology, which develops and manufactures cGMP-compliant cytokines and other ancillary materials to enable cell and gene therapy development and commercialization, today announced that it has submitted Type II Drug Master...

Study published in Nature Communications By University of Miami Health System, Miller School of Medicine  - Contact patient services Miami, FL - July 8, 2020 — (Newswise) Scientists focused on finding better treatments or cures for types 1 or 2 diabetes are painfully...

Durham, NC – Results of a clinical trial released today in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine indicates that breast augmentation in patients treated with fat grafts enriched with autologous adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) had significantly superior results compared...

Inhibiting a single gene converts many cell types directly into dopamine-producing neurons June 24, 2020  |  Heather Buschman, PhD Xiang-Dong Fu, PhD, has never been more excited about something in his entire career. He has long studied the basic biology of RNA, a...

California Voters Have Opportunity to Advance Treatments and Cures that Could Save and Improve Lives, While Helping Create Jobs and Stimulate State Economy   June 22, 2020 PALO ALTO, CA — Californians for Stem Cell Research, Treatments & Cures announced today...

The shift, quietly disclosed on a government website, highlights how the Trump administration is favoring development of vaccines over treatments for the sickest patients. By Katie Thomas - June 19, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET - Link to The New York Times article When the...

Durham, NC – Results of a study released today in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine (SCTM) may point the way to a cure for a serious lung disease called silicosis that affects millions of workers worldwide. Silicosis results from years of breathing in dust...

Artificial structures developed the rudimentary components of a heart and nervous system. By David Cyranoski Scientists in Europe have created embryo-like structures that mimic a crucial yet enigmatic stage of human development. The structures, created from stem cells...

Durham, NC – In the search for a cure for Alzheimer's disease, mesenchymal stem cells and their derived extracellular vesicles (MSC-EVs) offer much promise, thanks to their protective and anti-inflammatory properties. The results from a new study done on mice,...

Washington, DC (June 3, 2020) – A new systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical studies using mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) led by a team at the Mayo Clinic, and including researchers from Emory, Duke, Case-Western, and the University of Miami, shows a trend...

Durham, NC – In a study released today in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine (SCTM), a team led by researchers at the Eugenia Menni Research Centre (CREM) in Brescia, Italy, show for the first time how stem cells collected from human amniotic membrane (one of the two...

Children with autism without intellectual disability may benefit, but more research is needed DURHAM, N.C. -- In a recent study, Duke researchers tested whether a single infusion of a unit of a child’s own or donor cord blood could improve social communication skills...

Photo caption, "A more enriched adipose-derived stem cells-constituent extract (ADSC-CE) with stem cell proteins is obtained by disruption of the ADSC membrane using a low frequency of ultrasound wave." Durham, NC – The results of a clinical trial released today in...

by Vanesa Listek 3D Printing | Bioprinting To deal with the challenges in regenerative medicine, in 2018, pioneer bioprinting expert Anthony Atala announced the foundation of an organization dedicated solely to advancing the field through manufacturing. Known as the...

Durham, NC – Infection, inflammation, trauma, disease, contact lenses – all of these and more can lead to corneal scarring, which according to the World Health Organization is a leading cause of blindness worldwide. While corneal transplant remains the gold standard...

By Dustin Gardiner- May 5, 2020, San Francisco Chronicle Supporters of a proposed $5.5 billion bond measure that would keep California’s stem cell research institute in business say they have submitted enough signatures to qualify it for the November ballot. The...

April 24, 2020 - By Mark Terry - Melbourne, Australia and New York-based Mesoblast Limited announced that in a study of COVID-19 patients with moderate to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), there was 83% survival with two intravenous infusions of the...

April 24, 2020 / Yimy Villa Dr. John Zaia, City of hope The governing Board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) continued its commitment to help with the coronavirus pandemic by awarding $749,999 to Dr. John Zaia at City of Hope.  He will be...

The RMF team has assembled a google drive folder that contains notable clinical trials related to COVID-19. We will be constantly updating this drive as news about clinical trials is released. There are several folders in the google drive link. Click the link below to...

Personalized Stem Cells, Inc. and Calidi Biotherapeutics collaborate to rapidly bring a stem cell therapy into clinical trials for COVID-19 patients. POWAY, CALIFORNIA, USA, April 13, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The scientific community is racing to bring new COVID-19...