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Clinical trial tests new cell therapy to manage kidney transplant rejection

by admin | Apr 10, 2026 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health – A first-of-its-kind clinical trial at the Program for Advanced Cell Therapy will examine a new method to manage kidney rejection following transplant. The Program for Advanced Cell Therapy, or...

Scientists Discover Hidden “Footprint of Death” That Could Transform How We Fight Disease

by admin | Apr 9, 2026 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By La Trobe University – SciTechDaily – Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown feature of cell death that reshapes how the immune system identifies and clears dying cells. Scientists at La Trobe University have identified a previously unknown way...

Nobel Prize winners face new loss in bid for US CRISPR patents

by admin | Apr 8, 2026 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Blake Brittain – Reuters News – March 27 (Reuters) – A U.S. Patent Office tribunal has ruled against Nobel Prize-winning scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for a second time in their dispute with the Broad Institute, a joint...

After allogeneic transplant, VIC-1911 regimen shows low severe GVHD and no relapse

by admin | Apr 7, 2026 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center – MedicalXPress – Results of a Phase I clinical trial show that patients who undergo a blood stem cell transplant involving a donor have a lower risk of relapse and lower rates of graft-versus-host disease when...

UCLA researchers receive .9 million CIRM grant to identify drug targets for autism and schizophrenia using human stem cell models

UCLA researchers receive $13.9 million CIRM grant to identify drug targets for autism and schizophrenia using human stem cell models

by admin | Apr 6, 2026 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

By Tiare Dunlap – UCLA Health – A team of researchers led by UCLA’s Dr. Daniel Geschwind has received a $13.9 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to use human stem cell-based models to uncover the molecular and cellular...

RNA-guided CRISPR system activates gene expression

by admin | Apr 3, 2026 | Bernie Siegel’s WORLD STEM CELL SUMMIT BLOG, News and Opinions

by Alisha Willett, Purdue University – PHYS.ORG – In back-to-back studies published in Nature, researchers from Purdue University and Columbia University report a naturally evolved gene-editing system that can activate genes, offering an advantage over...