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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...

By Tasnim Ahmed, CNN - Link to article A US woman has become the third known person who’s gone into HIV remission, and the first mixed-race woman, thanks to a transplant of stem cells from umbilical cord blood, according to research presented at a conference Tuesday....

Written by Carrie Foust  - Link to article Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago found promising results in their search for a treatment to stop nerve cell degeneration that happens in some types of disorders, such as hereditary spastic paraplegia and...

By Lisa Huiqin Wang - Link to article The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA (pictured above) is located at the south end of campus. In November 2021, researchers at the center published a study detailing a new, more...

Article from Helio.com - Link to article Results from a randomized phase 3 study saw one CAR-T significantly outperform the current standard of care among patients with relapsed or refractory disease, according to study investigator Manali Kamdar, MD. “The patients I...

By Lauren Gibbons - Link to article Two bills passed by the Michigan House Wednesday aim to ban research on cells obtained from abortion procedures, although critics said the premise violates the state constitution. House Bills 5558 and 5559, sponsored by state Reps....

From Lupus Foundation website  : Link to article A newly published study reviewing the current body of scientific evidence on the safety and efficacy of stem cell therapy to treat rheumatic disease highlights the potential benefits of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs)...

From Technology Networks Cell Science (Link to article) A research team based in Kumamoto University (Japan) has created complex 3D kidney tissue in the lab solely from cultured mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. These organoids could lead the way to better kidney...

From News-Medical.net (Link to article) Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc Individual dosing of a drug used to prepare children for stem cell transplantation makes this treatment safer. That's according to new research by scientists from the Princess Máxima Center and...