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ND attorney general launches investigation into stem cell clinic – WDAY

WDAYND attorney general launches investigation into stem cell clinicWDAYWest 2 North has been offering stem cell injections at its Bismarck-based clinic for about a week and a half. Parrell Grossman of the Consumer Protection Division said his office i… Continue reading

ND attorney general launches investigation into stem cell clinic – Jamestown Sun

Jamestown SunND attorney general launches investigation into stem cell clinicJamestown SunWest 2 North has been offering stem cell injections at its Bismarck-based clinic for about a week and a half. Parrell Grossman of the Consumer Protection Division… Continue reading

Stem cell therapy fails to improve walking ability in people with PAD – News-Medical.net

News-Medical.netStem cell therapy fails to improve walking ability in people with PADNews-Medical.netA stem cell therapy did not improve walking ability in people with peripheral artery disease, although exercise did lead to significant improvements, a… Continue reading

Medical first: Doctors attempt to gene-edit a living patient’s DNA – CNN

CNN

Medical first: Doctors attempt to gene-edit a living patient’s DNA CNN Conner explained that “it’s also a monogenetic disease: You have a mutation in one gene.” This simplicity is helpful when testing the experimental gene therapy, he said, but there’s another good reason to target Hunter syndrome: Patients are “still … A human has been injected with gene editing tools to cure his disabling disease. Here’s what you need to knowScience Magazine US man with rare disease is first to undergo gene editing in the bodyCBS News First gene-editing in human body attemptBBC News The Verge –The Atlantic –ABC News all 64 news articles »

Scope (blog)

Senate committee hearing on CRISPR technology features Stanford researcher Scope (blog) Senator Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said he got the idea for holding the hearing when he was fishing in Alaska and listening to the radio for the weather forecast when he heard a story about CRISPR. “I took notes and was fascinated, and I thought, ‘one … and more »

Business Insider

A breakthrough in stem cell therapy saved a boy’s life after doctors successfully reconstructed his skin Business Insider The German doctors reached out to Dr. Michele De Luca, an Italian stem cell expert who heads the Center for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, to see if a transplant of genetically modified skin cells might be possible.