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The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded a $4.96 million grant to Sanford Burnham Prebys Professor Evan Y. Snyder, M.D., Ph.D. The funding will allow Snyder to complete pre-investigational new drug (IND)-enabling studies, a step toward...

The country’s researchers are racing to grow replacement organs for humans in animals. By Adam Minter - Bloomberg News Recently, a Chinese startup named Qihan Biotech raised $20 million to develop replacement organs for humans. The smallish deal would hardly have...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – The International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory is embarking upon a multi-year research alliance with the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine (MIRM) at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) to push the limits of...

Durham, NC – A study released today in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine provides compelling evidence of how an injection of human amniotic fluid stem cells can be used to protect the spinal cord of a fetus from myelomeningocele  (MMC). The finding could lead to a new...

12 August 2019 -- The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) today released a professional standard of informed consent for stem cell-based interventions performed outside of formal clinical trials, such as the unapproved and unproven “treatments”...

REGISTER HERE Registration is now open for the Shanghai meeting, October 15-16, 2019   Shanghai, August 12, 2019 - Combining more than 30 years of conference experience, Phacilitate and the nonprofit Regenerative Medicine Foundation (RMF) have created a new Asia...

Vancouver, Canada, August 7, 2019 – ISCT, the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy, the global professional society of clinicians, researchers, regulatory specialists, technologists and industry partners in the cell and gene therapy sector, today announces...

Durham, NC – A study released today in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine (SCTM) identifies a computational modeling system that could have far-reaching implications for personalized medicine, especially when seeking treatments for children with heart failure. The...

Photo: Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins, PhD, Assistant Professor​ at University of Pennsylvania​ The Context: To fit inside the nucleus of our cells, our DNA crumples up, forming loops and making itself compact. When certain sequences of looped DNA interact with others,...

Image:California voters approved US$3.3 billion to create a state-backed agency for research into stem cells (pictured) in 2004. Will they do it again? Credit: Charles Gersbach, Scripps Research Institute The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine is running...

The Context: Fatty liver diseases such as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), non-alcoholic stereohepatitis (NASH), and Wolman disease are especially difficult to study and treat due to the lack of effective disease models that recapitulate their...

Already approved FDA drug could impact brain cell function Texas Biomedical Research Institute San Antonio, Texas (June 17, 2019) - The William and Ella Owens Medical Research Foundation has awarded Texas Biomed Associate Professor Marcel Daadi, Ph.D., with a grant of...

ISSCR News - 5 June, 2019 - The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), the largest professional organization of stem cell researchers from around the world, opposes the new U.S. Health and Human Services policy to eliminate federal funding for fetal...

FDA Press Release: June 04, 2019 - U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro of the Southern District of Florida granted the government’s motion for summary judgment against US Stem Cell Clinic LLC, of Weston, Florida, and US Stem Cell Inc., of Sunrise, Florida, and their...

DURHAM, N.C. (PRWEB)May 30, 2019 - A study released today in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine is the first to demonstrate an efficient delivery system for the sustained release of human placental stem cell (HPSC)-derived conditioned medium (CM) to treat acute kidney...

WINSTON-SALEM, NC – The sixth annual Regenerative Medicine Essentials Course will be held June 10 - 14 in downtown Winston-Salem. The course is made possible through the collaborative partnership between the Regenerative Medicine Foundation (RMF) and the Wake Forest...

One of the biggest investment opportunities over the next decade will be in companies working to delay human death, a market expected to be worth at least $600 billion by 2025, according to Bank of America analysts. The analysts say companies such as Illumina and...

Under a draft proposal, patients would be able to buy some therapies without regulatory approval. By: David Cyranoski Select elite hospitals in China could soon be able to sell experimental therapies that engineer a patient’s own cells to treat diseases such as cancer...

by Vanesa Listek | 17 hours ago | 3D Printing, Bioprinting, Exclusive Interviews, Featured Stories, Medical 3D Printing | Anthony Atala is a pediatric surgeon, urologist and directs the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) in North Carolina....