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By CincinnatiChildrens.org - Cincinnati Children’s Pluripotent Stem Cell Facility (PSCF) facilitates and supports research using human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs). HPSCs are generated from a skin biopsy or blood sample that can be obtained from any patient and,...

By Adam Boros, PhD - Drug Discovery News - Genetically modified stem cells show promise in a targeted approach to taming inflammation in autoimmune diseases. Researchers developed an immunotherapy using chimeric antigen receptors and mesenchymal stromal cells, paving...

by Phil Newman - Longevity.Technology - At birth, the baby is the headline event while the rest of the materials, which have played a crucial role in the intricate process of building a fully-functioning human from just two cells, are often discarded as medical waste....

By University of Helsinki - Phys.org - Cell therapies could help in the treatment of hereditary diseases, myocardial infarction and hundreds of other diseases. For many blood diseases, new cells can already be transplanted into human patients, and diabetes has also...

by Clara Rodriguez Fernandez - Advanced Science News - Scientists have taken a step closer toward a treatment to repair damaged spinal cord tissue with a wireless patch that delivers electrical pulses to stem cells. The device could overcome some major hurdles in the...

by Gorm Pamgren - CRISPR Medicine News - Researchers have refined prime editing (PE) to correct the cystic fibrosis (CF) related gene CFTR. Results demonstrated improved efficiency and minimal off-target effects in correcting the F508del mutation in human airway...

By Science Daily News - CAR-T cell therapy helps some with intractable lymphoma, but those who relapse have few options. Modifying the therapy's molecular target improved response. Source: Stanford Medicine. Click Here to read the article

By Baylor College of Medicine - Novel therapeutic approaches are needed for children with diffuse midline glioma (DMG) and other recurrent high-grade central nervous system (CNS) tumors, aggressive brain cancers with poor prognoses. A type of immunotherapy using T...

By Gabrielle Masson - Fierce Biothech - J.P. Morgan Private Capital has closed an inaugural life sciences fund of more than $500 million, cash that will go toward a wide range of private biotechs and build value for existing portfolio companies. Dubbed the “270 Life...

By Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT Researchers and Industry Partners Develop Process for Printing Personalized Corneas; Project Wins NEULAND Innovation Contest Printing a new cornea during an operation to restore a patient’s eyesight: This groundbreaking step...

by Jackson Laboratory - Medical Express - Our bone marrow—the fatty, jelly-like substance inside our bones—is an unseen powerhouse quietly producing 500 billion new blood cells every day. That process is driven by hematopoietic stem cells that generate all of the...

By PubMed - The analysis on phase 1/2a trial which had several modifications in protocol is currently ongoing. Despite several limitations that need to be overcome, stem cell therapy could be a potential therapeutic option for treating IC/BPS. Clinical outcome on...

By Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News - Stem cell research recently celebrated its 60th anniversary. Although the first publications in this field appeared in the early 1960s, it took another 20 years before the first embryonic stem cells could be isolated....

by University of Copenhagen - MedicalXpress - An unexpectedly versatile and regenerative stem cell in early embryos may be key to creating new effective fertility treatments, suggests a new study in mice from the University of Copenhagen. The paper, titled "The...

By Victoria Johnson - CGT Live = The FDA has granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapeutic (RMAT) Designation to uniQure’s AMT-130 gene therapy for the potential treatment of Huntington disease (HD).1 “We’re thrilled to receive the first ever RMAT designation for...

By Duke University - Science Daily - Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a new technique to better understand and test treatments for a group of extremely rare muscle disorders called dysferlinopathy or limb girdle muscular dystrophies 2B (LGMD2B)....

by Hannah Thomasy, PhD - The Scientist - Yejing Ge explores the behavior of skin-resident stem cells in wound repair, cancer, and aging. In 1986, Harold Dvorak, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School, popularized the idea of cancer as a wound that does not heal. In...

By Gret Harrison - USC Viterbi - New research harnesses machine learning and imaging to give unprecedented insight into stem cell behavior that could enable future lifesaving therapies. Stem cells are like the emergency tool kit of the human body. They have the unique...

By Hannah Thomasy, PhD - Exploring Drug Discovery and Development News - The black rat rested calmly in a clear tube, its nose twitching gently as it sniffed the air. Its eyes followed the parade of vertical black and white bars scrolling from left to right across a...

Dr. Omer Awan MD MPH CIIP - Forbes - Recently, a 12-year-old boy became the first patient with sickle cell disease to begin commercially approved gene therapy that could potentially cure the condition. Read the article - Click Here