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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...

From News-Medical.net (Link to article) Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc Researchers at University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University have developed a novel approach to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for B-cell cancers...

By Nate MacKay - Courthouse News Service (Link to article) The implanted tissues successfully restored walking abilities in 80% of the lab models with chronic paralysis. (CN) — Researchers engineered and implanted functional human spinal cord tissues that showed...

TOKYO - The Mainichi (Link to Atricle) A team of scientists from Japan's Riken research institute and Chiba University has succeeded in producing a type of stem cell from mouse cells that researchers hope could further study on artificially reconstructing life. The...

by Greta Friar - Link to Full Article with Video Imagine a ball thrown in the air: it curves up, then down, tracing an arc to a point on the ground some distance away. The path of the ball can be described with a simple mathematical equation, and if you know the...

By Angus Chen - Link to Article In 2010, Doug Olson became the second person in the world to receive CAR-T cell therapy, an experimental tactic to engineer his own immune cells to fight cancer. His doctors had tempered expectations for how well it would fight off...

By Andrew Briskin - Link to Article In a collaboration between ViaCyte and CRISPR Therapeutics, a new clinical trial is investigating a cell therapy that may eventually help millions with type 1 diabetes. Researchers have long sought a cell-based “cure” for type 1...

Genetically modified cancer-fighting cells are now developed on campus as part of a new cellular therapy program (SACRAMENTO) Alan Gaines did two tours in the Vietnam War as a Navy fighter pilot—so being brave isn’t new to him.  At 77, he was diagnosed with an...

HOUSTON - (link to article) - A huge advancement in treating heart disease could be on the horizon. Researchers at the Texas Heart Institute are studying a high-tech way to use stem cells to spare lives and protect patients from the #1 killer. Your heart is a powerful...

By Dr. Tomislav Meštrović, MD, Ph.D. - Dec 13 2021 - News-Medical.net (link to article) A recent review in the journal Life provided a detailed description of CRISPR-Cas-based diagnostic techniques to identify severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2...

January 20, 2022 – Washington, D.C. (link to article) – A new national poll of registered voters in the United States shows that the majority of respondents would utilize pharmaceutical intervention to target aspects of aging if the drugs or therapies were safe,...

NIAID Scientists Developed Vaccine Platform Image Caption: Scanning electromicrograph of an HIV-infected H9 T cell. Credit: NIAID December 9, 2021 - (Link to article) - An experimental HIV vaccine based on mRNA—the same platform technology used in two highly effective...

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. - Dec 16 2021 - News-Medical.net (link to article) The research group Immunology of Fungal Infections at the University of Valencia (UV) has investigated a fungal vaccine with which to train stem cells and hematopoietic progenitors...

Image caption: Human stem cells can be used to create models called blastoids (one shown that has been chemically altered to fluoresce) for studying how early-stage embryos implant into the lining of the uterus. Models of early-stage embryos could be used to research...

By Susan Buckles MayoClinic.com (link to article) Mayo Clinic has discovered how to microencapsulate pluripotent stem cells to potentially make them easier and less expensive to process and more effective for fighting disease. This research by Alexander Revzin, Ph.D.,...

By Alexandra Beckstett, The Horse Managing Editor, TheHorse.com (link to article) Indications for their use and how veterinarians choose between the two therapies. In recent years, there’s been tremendous interest in using regenerative therapies (or, more accurately,...

By Karen Weintraub - January 10, 2022 - APNews.com  (link to article) A Maryland man has lived for three days with a pig heart beating inside his chest. The surgery, at the University of Maryland Medical Center, marks the first time a gene-edited pig has been used as...