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Here's a headline you don't see every day. Stunning- #organs revived after death! Could this one day be an answer to organ shortages? Or a plot straight out of a dystopian TV show on the SyFy Channel. Article in #Forbes provides the quick takeaway: "The research works...

Abstract Most adult organs contain regenerative stem cells, often organized in specific niches. Stem cell function is critical for tissue homeostasis and repair upon injury, and it is dependent on interactions with the niche. During ageing, stem cells decline in their...

Image caption: Market over-saturation is especially pronounced in acute lymphocytic leukemia, which has more than 300 drugs in the pipeline, plus two that boast FDA approvals, GlobalData points out. (Mohammed Haneefa Nizamudeen/iStock/Getty Images Plus) By Fraiser...

Dr. Atala leads an interdisciplinary team that has developed 15 clinically used tissue applications and is working on more than 40 tissues and organs Newswise — CHICAGO (June 10, 2022): Anthony Atala, MD, FACS, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, will be presented with the...

Seeing a brighter future! Highly interesting article. Using stem modeling with #IPSCs, researchers at the #UniversityofMelbourne developed genetic roadmaps for two causes of irreversible #blindness - Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma #POAG and age-related macular...

image Caption: Sensory interneurons (with nuclei in red) derived from mouse stem cells. Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have developed a...

image caption: Microscope image of pancreatic tissue, magnification 25X. Shows Islets of Langerhans (lightly stained, pink areas - composed of alpha and beta cells, endocrine tissue), and exocrine tissue (darker, surrounding tissue, secretes digestive enzymes)....

Doctors turn to stem cell treatment to heal the youngest hearts Almost one out of 100 babies are born with a heart defect each year in the United States. Many of these babies will need surgery within weeks of birth, followed by more surgeries throughout their lives....

Image Caption: New research into factors that control the life and death of hair follicle cells could help people with baldness, as well as wound healing. Credit: Helpaeatcontu/Wikimedia by Jules Bernstein, University of California - Riverside A single chemical is key...

By Fraiser Kansteiner - Fierce Pharma Just a few weeks after Cognate BioServices moved to beef up its cell and gene therapy manufacturing, the company has attracted a buyer eager to tap that expertise. Charles River Laboratories agreed to throw down $875 million cash...

By Max Bayer - Fierce Biotech Just a week after Vertex’s stem cell therapy to treat type 1 diabetes was released from an FDA clinical hold, the company is clearing out potential competition by buying ViaCyte for $320 million. The all-cash deal announced Monday throws...

By University of Copenhagen - SciTechDaily.com The University of Copenhagen researchers utilized a mouse model to discover an alternate path that some cells follow to build organs and used that information to exploit a new kind of stem cells as a possible supply of...

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...