Is Alzheimer’s treatment of injecting stem cells into the brain a breakthrough or quackery? – OCRegister
OCRegister |
Is Alzheimer’s treatment of injecting stem cells into the brain a breakthrough or quackery?
OCRegister Turner has written extensively and critically about the Cell Surgical Network (CSN), for which Duma, whose home hospital is Hoag in Newport Beach, is listed as a network physician. The CSN promotes “the stem cell revolution,” which its literature … |
CNN |
Sickle cell anemia patient ‘cured’ by gene therapy, doctors say
CNN Leboulch and his colleagues are using the same genetic therapy to treat a similar disease called thalassemia, another inherited blood disorder in which patients have less hemoglobin and fewer red blood cells than normal. Severe forms require regular … Sickle cell anemia patient ‘cured’ by gene therapy, doctors say …FOX31 Denver Sickle cell gene therapy: ‘It gives me joy and hope’BBC News Gene therapy shows early promise against sickle cellChicago Tribune Fox News –BBC News –New England Journal of Medicine all 79 news articles » |
University of California |
Gene therapy offers hope for newborns with severe immune disorder
University of California Infants born with a type of the devastating immune disorder SCID, or “bubble boy disease,” may have the option of a novel gene therapy treatment, thanks to a clinical trial at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco. The trial is funded by a … |
Medscape |
Juno Permanently Halts CAR T-Cell Study
Medscape The CAR T-cell approach, which involves taking T-cells from patients, engineering them, and then reinfusing them back into the patient, has produced dramatic results in clinical trials in leukemia and lymphoma patients. However, clinical trials with … Juno Halts Development of CAR T-Cell Cancer Immunotherapy Candidate JCAR015Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (press release) Juno ditches lead CAR–T program following patient deathsFierceBiotech After Trial Deaths, Juno Pivots and Scraps Lead CAR–T TherapyXconomy PMLiVE –Endpoints News –OncLive all 91 news articles » |
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Live stem cell imaging technique opens new windows into pancreatic regeneration
Diabetes.co.uk Richard Tan, a PhD student from the Heart Research Institute, in Sydney, has developed these so called “bioluminescent” stem cells as a non-invasive way to give scientists immediate feedback on whether organ tissue regeneration is actually working. |