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Boosted by celebrity endorsements and a controversial research program, clinics are peddling stem cell autism treatments questioned by expertsJanuary 13, 2021 at 6:31 AM Tags: Facebook, Home Depot, UK, Hollywood, Science, Instagram, US, Trends, Ukraine, Cnn, Autism, News UK, Stem Cells, Josh Brolin, Fda, Mel Gibson 134 people like this. Like Fact Check: Here's the Deal With Trump's Antibody Cocktail and Fetal CellsOctober 8, 2020 at 6:17 PM  Tags: Science, Medicine, Stem Cells, Donald Trump, Antibodies, Trump, Regeneron, Covid 19 101 people like this. Like Stem-cell capsules could help people recover from heart damageAugust 20, 2020 at 2:42 PM Could this help stem cell treatments be more effective?Tags: News, Trends, Stem Cells 16 people like this. Like Mission Bio raises $70 million to help scale its tech for improving the development of targeted cancer therapiesAugust 13, 2020 at 12:00 PM California-based startup Mission Bio has raised a new $70 million Series C funding round, led by Novo Growth and including participating from Soleus Capital and existing investors Mayfield, Cota and Agilent. Mission Bio will use the funding to scale its Tapestri Platform, which uses the company’s work in single-cell multi-omics technology to help optimize clinical trials for targeted, precision cancer therapies.
Mission Bio’s single-cell multi-omics platform is unique in the therapeutic industry...Tags: Health, TC, Science, Biology, California, Drugs, Stanford, Cancer, Articles, Tech, Stem Cells, Biotech, Cancer Research, Crispr, Biotechnology, Life Sciences 34 people like this. Like Shady Stem Cell Therapies Can Cause Tumors, Infections, and Death, Doctors ReportJuly 29, 2020 at 12:00 PM  Tags: Science, Neuroscience, Multiple Sclerosis, Stem Cells, Stem Cell Therapy 92 people like this. Like Swiss scientists grew mini Neanderthal brains in petri dishesJune 23, 2020 at 9:30 AM Researchers at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology in Basel, Switzerland have attempted to isolate the Neanderthal DNA from certain human stem cells. A leader on the project, Grayson Camp, had already performed a similar experiment using chimpanzee stem cells, to get a better understanding of the differences between chimp and human brains.
Their research, titled "Human Stem Cell Resources Are an Inroad to Neandertal DNA Functions," was published on June 18, 2020, and began with...Tags: Post, Science, News, Cnn, Stem Cells, Switzerland, Brains, Camp, Neanderthals, Basel Switzerland, Katie Hunt, Brains Are Weird, Natasha Kumar, Grayson Camp, that pesky DNA, Institute of Molecular 1 people like this. Like Bit Bio’s “enter button for the keyboard to the software of life” nabs the company $41.5 millionJune 14, 2020 at 2:32 PM  Tags: TC, Biology, Cancer, Tech, United Kingdom, Stem Cells, Cambridge, Disease, Cambridge University, Director, Operating System, Crispr, Biotechnology, Founder, Life Sciences, Juno 145 people like this. Like Bio Roundup: ASCO Opens, Merck Takes On COVID, Evofem’s Approval & MoreMay 29, 2020 at 9:46 AM  Tags: Startups, Ipo, Funding, Trends, Merck, Chicago, Alzheimer's Disease, Incubator, Stem Cells, Venture Capital, Machine Learning, Fda, National, Contraception, GlaxoSmithKline, Ai 83 people like this. Like Shady Stem Cell Clinics Are Peddling 'Immune-Boosting' Covid-19 TreatmentsMay 11, 2020 at 11:06 AM  Tags: Science, Stem Cells, Coronavirus, Covid 19 78 people like this. Like Fate Inks $100M Deal With Janssen for Stem Cell-Derived Cancer TherapiesApril 3, 2020 at 6:07 PM  Tags: Deals, Cancer, Trends, Stem Cells, Collaboration, San Diego, Immunotherapy, Biotech, Life Sciences, Agreement, Clinical Trials, Janssen, Janssen Biotech, National blog main, National top stories, San Diego blog main 86 people like this. Like Unproven Stem Cell Therapy Gets OK for Testing in Coronavirus PatientsApril 2, 2020 at 11:06 AM The treatment, which has been promoted by President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, will begin early-stage clinical trials.Tags: News, Stem Cells, Food And Drug Administration, Giuliani, Rudy Giuliani, Trump, Clinical Trials, Rudolph W, Drugs (Pharmaceuticals, Tests (Medical, Celularity, Your-feed-healthcare, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV 45 people like this. Like Venture-backed Celularity receives FDA approval for early trials of a new cell therapy for COVID-19April 2, 2020 at 10:33 AM Celularity, the venture-backed developer of novel cell therapies for cancer treatments, has received an initial clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to begin early-stage clinical trials on a potential treatment for COVID-19.
The company, which has raised at least $290 million to date (according to Crunchbase), uses “Natural Killer” (NK) cell therapies to boost the immune system’s disease-fighting response.
For Celularity, those NK cells are derived from stem cells cultivated from p...Tags: Travel, TC, Medicine, China, Cancer, Stem Cells, Food And Drug Administration, Disease, Genomics, Fda, Infection, Section, Celgene, Craig Venter, NK, Bristol Myers 31 people like this. Like Aspen Neuroscience raises $70M for its experimental Parkinson Disease treatmentApril 1, 2020 at 8:30 AM Since 2012, Dr. Jeanne Loring, the founder of the eponymous Loring Lab at Scripps Research, has been thinking about how to use pluripotent stem cells as a potential treatment for Parkinson Disease.
Now, eight years later, Aspen Neuroscience, the company she founded to bring her research to market has raised $70 million in funding and is set to begin clinical trials.
Roughly 60,000 Americans are diagnosed with Parkinson disease, which destroys parts of the brain responsible for motor function. Th...Tags: TC, Y Combinator, Biology, Tech, Stem Cells, Sam Altman, Fda, Parkinson's Disease, University Of California, Biotechnology, Founder, Aspen, Parkinson, Peter Thompson, John Gurdon, University of California Irvine 21 people like this. Like Aspen Neuroscience raises $70M for its experimental Parkinson’s Disease treatmentApril 1, 2020 at 8:30 AM Since 2012, Dr. Jeanne Loring, the founder of the eponymous Loring Lab at Scripps Research, has been thinking about how to use pluripotent stem cells as a potential treatment for Parkinson Disease.
Now, eight years later, Aspen Neuroscience, the company she founded to bring her research to market has raised $70 million in funding and is set to begin clinical trials.
Roughly 60,000 Americans are diagnosed with Parkinson disease, which destroys parts of the brain responsible for motor function. Th...Tags: TC, Y Combinator, Biology, Tech, Stem Cells, Sam Altman, Fda, Parkinson's Disease, University Of California, Biotechnology, Founder, Aspen, Parkinson, Peter Thompson, John Gurdon, University of California Irvine 5 people like this. Like Aspen Neuroscience raises $70 million for its experimental Parkinson Disease treatmentApril 1, 2020 at 8:30 AM Since 2012, Dr. Jeanne Loring, the founder of the eponymous Loring Lab at Scripps Research, has been thinking about how to use pluripotent stem cells as a potential treatment for Parkinson Disease.
Now, eight years later, Aspen Neuroscience, the company she founded to bring her research to market has raised $70 million in funding and is set to begin clinical trials.
Roughly 60,000 Americans are diagnosed with Parkinson disease, which destroys parts of the brain responsible for motor function. Th...Tags: TC, Y Combinator, Biology, Tech, Stem Cells, Sam Altman, Fda, Parkinson's Disease, University Of California, Biotechnology, Founder, Aspen, Parkinson, Peter Thompson, John Gurdon, University of California Irvine His Immune System Went Out of Whack. The Usual Treatment Didn’t Work. Why?March 18, 2020 at 5:00 AM A 61-year-old man lost more than 25 pounds in a matter of a few months and was not responding to treatment. The doctor was stumped.Tags: News, Cancer, Immune System, Stem Cells, Norovirus, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Clinical Infectious Diseases (Journal Second person ever to be cleared of HIV reveals identityMarch 9, 2020 at 3:36 PM Adam Castillejo, known as the London patient, goes public to give hope to others with illnessThe second person ever to be cleared of HIV has revealed his identity, saying he wants to be an “ambassador of hope” to others with the condition.Adam Castillejo, the so-called London patient, was declared free of HIV last year, 18 months after stopping antiretroviral therapy following a stem cell – or bone marrow – transplant to treat blood cancer. Continue reading...Tags: Health, Science, London, Biology, Cancer, Society, World news, Medical Research, Stem Cells, Aids and HIV, Cancer Research, Adam Castillejo 9 people like this. Like Stress Really Does Make Hair Go Gray FasterJanuary 23, 2020 at 11:44 AM The same nerves involved in the fight-or-flight response can cause permanent damage to the cells responsible for producing hair color in mice, scientists have found.Tags: News, Research, Stem Cells, Hair, Mice, Anxiety and Stress, Nerves and Nervous System, Cortisol (Hormone, Your-feed-science Link About It: This Week’s PicksJanuary 18, 2020 at 9:03 AM Ginormous diamonds, living robots made from frog stem cells, and more from around the web Preserving the Scents of Everyday Life Researchers at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage are working double-time to identify and catalog scents that exist all around us—from the smell of an old book, to a pub at a particular time of night, and worn-in leather. Many of these are disappearing …Tags: Art, Wearables, Weather, Music, Science, Design, Air Travel, Medicine, Video Games, Tech, Diamonds, Airplanes, Stem Cells, Meteorology, Exhibitions, Airbus 34 people like this. Like World’s First Living Robots Assembled from Frog Stem CellsJanuary 15, 2020 at 10:50 AM “These are entirely new lifeforms. They have never before existed on Earth,” Michael Levin, the director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, tells The Guardian. “They are living, programmable organisms.” Levin and other researchers in the US have created the first-ever living machines: robots composed of biological tissue, assembled from African clawed frog (xenopus laevis) stem cells and designed on …Tags: Science, Design, Life, US, Tech, Robots, Stem Cells, Robotics, Linkaboutit, Tufts University, Levin, Michael Levin, Medford Massachusetts, Organisms, Allen Discovery Center, Xenobots 19 people like this. Like At 16, She’s a Pioneer in the Fight to Cure Sickle Cell DiseaseJanuary 11, 2020 at 9:42 AM Helen Obando is the youngest person ever to get a gene therapy that scientists hope will cure the disease, which afflicts 100,000 Americans.Tags: News, Stem Cells, Genetic Engineering, Pioneer, Clinical Trials, Genetics and Heredity, BlueBird Bio, Boston Children's Hospital, Sickle Cell Anemia, Helen Obando 4 people like this. Like Aspen Neuro Bags $6.5M to Test Parkinson’s Disease Stem Cell TherapyDecember 12, 2019 at 7:09 AM  Tags: Startups, Trends, Stem Cells, San Diego, Parkinson's Disease, Biotech, Life Sciences, ARCH Venture Partners, Alexandria Venture Investments, National blog main, National top stories, San Diego blog main, San Diego top stories, OrbiMed, Domain Associates, Scripps Research Newly launched pet health startup Gallant wants you to bank your dog’s stem cells for $990October 24, 2019 at 10:20 AM  Tags: TC, Biology, Los Angeles, Tech, Stem Cells, Rover, Illness, Black, Biotechnology, Emerging-technologies, Dogvacay, Life Sciences, Gallant, Maveron, Linda Black, Science Inc 71 people like this. Like Viagra Might Someday Enhance Bone Marrow TransplantsOctober 10, 2019 at 3:10 PM  Tags: Science, Stem Cells, Viagra, University of California Santa Cruz, Transplants, Sildenafil 98 people like this. Like Mice Regain Their Sense of Smell After New Stem Cell TherapyMay 30, 2019 at 11:00 AM  Tags: Science, Stem Cells, Senses, Smell, Mice 120 people like this. Like Stem Cell Treatments Flourish With Little Evidence That They WorkMay 13, 2019 at 2:47 PM The F.D.A. has taken an industry-friendly approach toward companies using unproven cell cocktails to treat people desperate for relief from aging or damaged joints.Tags: News, Stem Cells, Food And Drug Administration, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Bone Marrow, Hips, Knees, Health Insurance and Managed Care, Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, Your-feed-healthcare, Regenexx 25 people like this. Like Living With Cancer: The Lifesaving Power in Stem CellsApril 18, 2019 at 8:06 AM Liars and thieves should not be allowed to detract from legitimate scientific research that has made umbilical cord blood mystic in its regenerative powers.Tags: News, Parenting, Cancer, Leukemia, Stem Cells, Blood Donation, Indiana University, Bone Marrow, Health Insurance and Managed Care, Transplants, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Broxmeyer, Hal E N.Y. Attorney General Sues Manhattan Stem Cell Clinic, Citing Rogue TherapiesApril 4, 2019 at 5:29 PM Echoing F.D.A. concerns, the state’s top prosecutor accused Park Avenue Stem Cell of charging thousands of dollars for unproven, unregulated treatments.Tags: News, Stem Cells, Food And Drug Administration, James, Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, Medicine and Health, Letitia, Manhattan (NYC, Suits and Litigation (Civil, Manhattan Stem Cell Clinic Citing Rogue Therapies 9 people like this. Like Risky Stem-Cell Treatments Come Under F.D.A. Scrutiny — AgainApril 3, 2019 at 10:43 AM Warning that unapproved stem-cell treatments put patients at risk, the F.D.A. is notifying clinics and manufacturers that flout its rules.Tags: News, Stem Cells, Food And Drug Administration, Gottlieb, Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, Scott (1972-, California Stem Cell Treatment Center, U.S. Stem Cell Clinic, Cord for Life Inc 9 people like this. Like Scientists grow 'mini-brain on the move' that can contract muscleMarch 18, 2019 at 12:00 PM Cambridge researchers grew ‘organoid’ that spontaneously connected to spinal cordScientists have grown a miniature brain in a dish with a spinal cord and muscles attached, an advance that promises to accelerate the study of conditions such as motor neurone disease.The lentil-sized grey blob of human brain cells were seen to spontaneously send out tendril-like connections to link up with the spinal cord and muscle tissue, which was taken from a mouse. The muscles were then seen to visibly contrac...Tags: Health, Science, Biology, Neuroscience, Society, Mental Health, Genetics, Schizophrenia, Medical Research, Stem Cells, Cambridge, Epilepsy, University of Cambridge, Motor Neurone Disease 45 people like this. Like |
