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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.
Eye membrane removal may help transplanted cells reverse glaucoma damage
Glaucoma is a serious eye disease that can gradually cause vision loss, which is currently irreversible. But in a new cell culture study scientists found [...]
Cure for Blindness in Sight: Retinal Stem Cell Transplant Clears Experimental Hurdle
This is an image of RPE implant embedded in the sub-retinal space of a non-human primate model. The background retinal vessels highlighted by fundus fluorescein [...]
Scientists Take Important Step Toward Using Retinal Cell Transplants to Treat Blindness
UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL 11:00 AM ET ON JANUARY 14, 2021Newswise — (New York, NY – January 14, 2021) – Retinal cells derived from a cadaver [...]
A Rift in the Retina May Help Repair the Optic Nerve
Newswise — In experiments in mouse tissues and human cells, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have found that removing a membrane that lines the [...]
Side-effects of corticosteroid injections including joint destruction
Marc Darrow MD,JD Systemic and local side-effects of corticosteroid injections including joint destruction A patient will often come into our office with conflicting ideas about [...]
A niche for the eye
Jan 13 2021Newswise — KANSAS CITY, MO—What if the degenerative eye conditions that lead to glaucoma, corneal dystrophy, and cataracts could be detected and treated [...]
California’s $12 Billion Stem Cell Agency and Fresh Ruckus over Conflicts of Interest
The appointment of a new member to the governing board of California's $12 billion stem cell research program triggered additional comment and criticism today concerning [...]
MITO-Luc/GFP zebrafish model to assess spatial and temporal evolution of cell proliferation in vivo
Establishing Tg (cyclin B2:Luc/GFP) MITO-Luc/GFP transgenic zebrafish linesTo develop a zebrafish model to visualize proliferation events in the whole animal, the promoter fragment used in [...]
Hope for children with rare heart condition: novel stem cell therapy to save the day
In a new study, scientists at Okayama University isolated cardiac stem cells and assessed their potential use as regenerative therapy in young patients with cardiac [...]
Wistar Researchers Develop New Humanized Mouse Model That Provides Insight Into Immunotherapy Resistance
Newswise — PHILADELPHIA — (Jan. 12, 2021) — Scientists at The Wistar Institute have created an advanced humanized immune system mouse model that allows them [...]
Waiting for hip replacement and spinal surgery. Is stem cell therapy a realistic option to help you avoid surgery?
Marc Darrow MD,JD Many people email us about their hip and back pain. Some have been recommended to a hip replacement, some have been recommended [...]
UCLA scientists develop method to more efficiently isolate and identify rare T cells
Newswise — Scientists from the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have developed a technique that will enable researchers [...]
Study: Treatment-related complication for blood cancer patients could be reduced
Newswise — Researchers at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center published promising findings today in the New England Journal of Medicine [...]
SARS-CoV-2 infection demonstrated in a human lung bronchioalveolar tissue model
Development of an in vitro human-derived tissue model for studying virus infection and disease progression in the alveolar cells of the lungs responsible for oxygen [...]
Uncovering basic mechanisms of intestinal stem cell self-renewal and differentiation
The gut plays a central role in the regulation of the body's metabolism and its dysfunction is associated with a variety of diseases, such as [...]
Stem-cell-derived human microglia transplanted into mouse brain to study human disease
1.Geirsdottir, L. et al. Cross-species single-cell analysis reveals divergence of the primate microglia program. Cell 179, 1609–1622 (2019).CAS Article Google Scholar 2.Gosselin, D. et al. [...]
Weekly reads & paper of the week: gene-editing vs. aging
The paper of the week reports using base-editing, a kind of gene-editing, to reverse mutations associated with rapid aging syndromes, generally called progeria, but there [...]
COVID Vaccine Conspiracy Theories?
I’ve got quite a few critical COVID topics to cover, but given that many people have been chiming in on the blog where I showed [...]
How stem cell therapy can work for hair growth
Marc Darrow MD,JD In this article I will offer a brief explanation of how stem cell therapy can work for hair growth. In a May [...]
Research on Platelet Rich Plasma injections for wrinkles and photo-damaged skin
Marc Darrow MD,JD In recent years doctors have found that by utilizing the growth factors found in the blood (specifically the platelets), a physician can [...]
Establishment of intestinal organoid cultures modeling injury-associated epithelial regeneration
Establishment of novel organoid cultures with regenerative featuresTo develop a novel organoid system recapitulating the process of intestinal epithelial regeneration after injury, we focused on [...]
U2af1 is required for survival and function of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells
1.Yoshida K, Sanada M, Shiraishi Y, Nowak D, Nagata Y, Yamamoto R, et al. Frequent Pathway Mutations of Splicing Machinery in Myelodysplasia. Nature. 2011;478:64–69.CAS Article [...]
Dosing Begins in Phase 1 Trial of Stem Cell Therapy for Bradykinesia
A first patient has been dosed in IMAC Holdings’ Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating its investigational umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) as a potential treatment for [...]