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By Kevin McCormack – Link to article – CIRM At the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) we are fortunate in having enough money to fund the most promising research to be tested in a clinical trial. Those are expensive projects, often costing tens of...

2022 Honorees include  Arnold I. Caplan, PhD;  Dr. Mahendra Rao;  Frances Verter, PhD & The Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood Foundation and the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund On June 9 at 7:00 PM EDT, Regenerative Medicine Foundation (RMF) will broadcast the Stem...

Cellular reprogramming is on the up as a growing number of companies race to develop therapies for rejuvenating human beings. Author: Eleanor Garth - Longevity.Technology - Link to article Recent advances in cellular reprogramming have revolutionised the fields of...

Cell receptor protein also stimulates the growth of brain cancer stem cells in Rutgers study By Kitta MacPherson - Rutgers Today - Link to article A receptor that was first identified as necessary for insulin action, that also is located on the neural stem cells found...

SIX AWESOME THINGS ABOUT 2022 PROGRAM   Arnold I. Caplan MD, the "father" of MSCs, delivers a resounding keynote speech that will rock the Richter scale: “Physicians, Hear Me Now. MSCs Will Change How Medicine Is Practiced!” Beth Roxland, JD...

Boerne, TX. May 11, 2022 — Cell Bridge Strategies, an industry thought leader and business consulting firm for regenerative medicine today announced its partnership and significant role at this year’s World Stem Cell Summit, taking place virtually on June 6-11,...

By Michael Irving May 08, 2022 – Type 1 diabetes can be a rare but serious side effect of a cancer treatment that use what are known as immune checkpoint inhibitors. In a new study in mice, researchers in Japan have shown that administering stem cell therapy could...

UC San Diego study uses lab-grown human brain tissue to identify neural abnormalities in Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome and test gene therapy tools image caption: Microscopy images reveal significant differences in size and structure between brain organoids derived from a...

The findings in mice could lead to new insights and treatments for a wide range of brain and neurological diseases, from epilepsy to Alzheimer’s by Julie Rafferty - April 28, 2022 - TuftsNow - Link to article Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine have...

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WINSTON-SALEM, NC, April 18, 2022 – Regenerative medicine manufacturing in space is the next frontier and will be possible due to a new three-way partnership between Axiom Space, which is building the world’s first commercial space station, the RegenMed Development...

Image caption: scanning electron micrograph of an HIV-infected H9 T cell. Phase 1 study is among first to examine mRNA technology for HIV The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched a Phase...

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...