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We aggregate and curate news from all over the web and social media, organizing them by categories and topics of interest, so you could make your own decisions about events, technologies and people connected with stem cell research and therapies.
NIH reverses Trump-era restrictions on fetal-tissue research
NEWS 16 April 2021 The US National Institutes of Health will remove limits on government scientists and cancel a controversial grant-reviewing ethics panel. Nidhi Subbaraman [...]
Exploring Thymosin β4 as a Restorative/Regenerative Treatment Option for Neurological Injury and Neurodegenerative Diseases
Oligodendrocytes are key neural cells responsible for producing myelin sheaths that wrap around neuronal axons in the central nervous system[1]. Considering that thymosin β4’s (Tβ4) [...]
First in the nation, FDA-approved Phase II mesenchymal stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease begins
Newswise — A Phase II clinical trial to assess mesenchymal adult stem cells as a disease-modifying therapy for Parkinson's disease has been launched at The [...]
New ‘time machine’ technique to measure cells
Using a new single-cell technique, WEHI researchers have uncovered a way to understand the programming behind how stem cells make particular cell types. The research [...]
Researchers investigate whether stem cell therapy is safe and effective for treatment-resistant bipolar disease
Newswise — A clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of stem cell therapy for treatment-resistant bipolar depression launched recently at The University of [...]
Using Bone Marrow-Derived Stem Cells to Heal Osteoarthritis in the Knee
Osteoarthritis (OA), the most common form of arthritis, affects over 32 million people in the U.S. each year. Characterized by a progressive degeneration of cartilage [...]
Treating Spinal Cord Injuries with Intravenous Infusion of Auto Serum-Expanded Autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Spinal cord injury (SCI) continues to be a significant cause of disability. In fact, it is estimated that annual SCIs account for nearly 18,000 injuries [...]
Improved transplant outcomes with myeloablative conditioning for hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in HLA-matched and mismatched donors: a national multicenter retrospective study
1.Jordan MB, Allen CE, Weitzman S, Filipovich AH, McClain KL. How I treat hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. Blood. 2011;118:4041–52.CAS PubMed PubMed Central Article Google Scholar 2.Henter JI, [...]
Related versus unrelated allogeneic HPC graft cryopreservation: a single-center experience in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic
Under normal conditions, and despite being an organizational challenge, the vast majority of allogeneic hematopoietic progenitor cell (HPC) grafts collected from related donors (RD) or [...]
Acute graft-versus-host disease is the foremost cause of late nonrelapse mortality
1.Tomblyn M, Chiller T, Einsele H, Gress R, Sepkowitz K, Storek J, et al. Guidelines for preventing infectious complications among hematopoietic cell transplant recipients: a [...]
Weekly reads: NIH genome editing, gut stem cells & diet, more
The first of the month often brings loads of new papers as new issues of journals come out so we have a wave of new [...]
New Article on Your Multifidus and Cytokines
If you read this blog regularly, you’ve heard about the most important back muscle many physicians have never heard about called the Multifidus. Now new [...]
APOE2 mitigates disease-related phenotypes in an isogenic hiPSC-based model of Alzheimer’s disease
1.Bertram L, Tanzi RE. Genome-wide association studies in Alzheimer’s disease. Hum Mol Genet. 2009;18:R137–45.CAS PubMed PubMed Central Article Google Scholar 2.Mahley RW. Apolipoprotein E: cholesterol [...]
Treating Autoimmune Disease Through Adult Stem Cell Therapy
Autoimmune diseases occur as a result of the body’s natural immune system mistakenly attacking and damaging healthy, normal cells and tissue. Currently, an estimated 60 [...]
Pillar of support: Breakthrough discovery could speed up bone implant recovery
An international research team led by Monash University has uncovered a new technique that could speed up recovery from bone replacements by altering the shape [...]
A resource of targeted mutant mouse lines for 5,061 genes
Arthur L. BeaudetPresent address: Luna Genetics, Houston, TX, USAAllan BradleyPresent address: Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease (CITIID), Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, University [...]
New insight into formation of the human embryo
Pioneering research led by experts from the University of Exeter's Living Systems Institute has provided new insight into formation of the human embryo. The team [...]
How to Read Knee MRI
[embedded content] Transcript for “How to Read Knee MRI” Hi, this is Dr. Centeno and I’d like to go over how to read knee MRI. [...]
Long-term effects of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived retinal cell transplantation in Pde6b knockout rats
AnimalsAll animals were treated in accordance with the guidelines defined by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Statement for the Use of Animals [...]
CRISPR Tackles Sickle Cell Disease
CRISPR, the technology first developed by Jennifer Doudna and colleagues at the University of California – Berkeley, is taking on the job of curing hereditary [...]
Targeting cellular senescence prevents glucocorticoid-induced bone loss through modulation of the DPP4-GLP-1 axis
Dear Editor, Glucocorticoids (GCs) often cause detrimental side effects, including osteoporosis and osteonecrosis, with no specific drugs available to circumvent these problems.1 Cellular senescence plays [...]