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By Alex Keown - Jan 10, 2022 - biospace.com (link to article) Bayer and Mammoth Biosciences forged a strategic collaboration potentially valued at more than $1 billion. The partnership grants the Germany-based pharma giant access to Mammoth’s CRISPR technology to...

By: ALLISON GATLIN - Investors.com - 01/10/2022 (link to article) Pfizer (PFE) is entering the CRISPR space through a $1.35 billion deal with Beam Therapeutics (BEAM), the companies announced Monday. But Beam stock fell on the deal. Beam is using CRISPR technology to...

As 2021 draws to a close, we celebrate the first decade of STEM CELLS Translational Medicine (SCTM) with gratitude to our devoted editors, reviewers, authors, and of course, our global loyal readership … all of you are a vital part of this first decade's history....

by Margarida Maia, PhD Repeat injections of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) into the spinal canal were safe and well tolerated in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and showed potential to significantly slow the rate of disease progression, a small Phase...

For the first time, scientists have derived insulin-secreting pancreatic endoderm cells from human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs), grafted these cells into 26 patients with type 1 diabetes, and demonstrated insulin secretion. The ongoing multicenter clinical trial aims...

November 29, 2021 - Kyoto, Japan - (Link to Article) Muscular dystrophy describes a group of genetic diseases in which muscles progressively weaken and degenerate, with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) being the most common. There are no curative treatments for DMD,...

The NOVOPLASM consortium has announced it is the “first in the world” to develop cold plasma technology for the treatment of infected burns and the wound healing of skin grafts. Regenerative medicine firm CTIBIOTECH, the French Armed Forces Biomedical Research...

by Rockefeller University A trifling paper cut is a site of frenzied activity. Within it, a squad of epidermal stem cells briskly regenerate to patch up the wound. A closer inspection of this war-torn swath of epidermis will reveal that while some of the stem cells...

Park Avenue Stem Cell and Dr. Joel B. Singer Ordered to End Deceptive Practices. Consumers Paid Thousands of Dollars for Unproven and Potentially Harmful Treatments. NEW YORK –(Link to Article)  New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced a $5.1 million...

By Marlene Cimons - November 6, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. EDT - Link to Article Douglas Jantz, 57, a retired middle school teacher from Houston, has been playing tennis since he was 9. He is serious about his game, so he was worried when his knees started to hurt....

By Peter Dockrill  - November, 17 2021 - Link to Article A technique capable of converting human stem cells into insulin-producing cells could hold huge promise for future diabetic treatments, if results seen in a recent experiment with mice can be successfully...

November 15, 2021 - by John Ready - Link to Article Daniel Wiznia, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon with Yale School of Medicine, is practicing a surgical technique designed to render 10% of hip replacements unnecessary. Regenerative properties from a patient’s own stem...

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. News-Medical.Net Nov 11 2021 - Link to article Northwestern University investigators have developed a new injectable therapy that harnesses "dancing molecules" to reverse paralysis and repair tissue after severe spinal cord injuries....

NEWSWEEK Article - By Aristos Georgiou On 11/3/21 at 8:31 AM EDT - Link to article A woman suffering from a rare blood condition is on a quest to find her estranged biological father, who may enable her to get a potentially life-saving transplant if he donates his...

By Anne Trafton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology October 30, 2021 - Link to Article A new RNA-based control switch could be used to trigger production of therapeutic proteins to treat cancer or other diseases. Researchers at MIT and Harvard University have...

Oct. 19, 2021 7:50 PM PT By Sara Cardine, Staff Writer Norma Marquez distinctly remembers the day she learned she had breast cancer. “It was May 1, 2018. I was diagnosed on St. Peregrine’s Feast Day,” the 43-year-old Anaheim resident recalled, explaining Peregrine is...

Image Caption: Adult stem cells (indicated by the white arrows) show promise in treating a variety of conditions, according to research by Dr. Eckhard Alt of the School of Medicine. These cells were obtained from adult adipose, or fat tissue. Credit: Dr. Eckhard...

In the first human subject, insulin requirement dropped by 91% at 90 days. A novel investigational allogeneic stem cell-derived treatment resulted in near reversal of type 1 diabetes in a patient who had lived with the condition for about 40 years. The patient was the...

November 9, 2021 - University of Pennsylvania - A new approach to repairing peripheral nerves marries the regenerating power of gingiva-derived mesenchymal stem cells with a biological scaffold to enable the functional recovery of nerves following a facial injury,...

By Clea Simon Harvard Correspondent - The Harvard Gazette - November 9, 2021 Link to article 100 years after discovery of insulin, replacement therapy represents ‘a new kind of medicine,’ says Stem Cell Institute co-director Douglas Melton, whose children inspired his...