A recent article published in Cell presents the case of a woman with type 1 diabetes who, after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed induced pluripotent stem cells, has managed to produce her own insulin. The operation, performed in June 2023, [...]
A new cloning experiment conducted in China in 2022 and described this month in Nature Communications marks the first successful cloning of a rhesus monkey. It was achieved using a slightly different approach to the conventional cloning technique used to [...]
An article recently published in the journal Cell, raises the need to assign a legal status to new embryonic models – human embryos – obtained from pluripotent cells, coming from embryonic cells (human Embryonic Stem Cells (HESCs) or from reprogrammed [...]
A group of researchers in La Jolla, California, have produced three-dimensional cerebral organoids (“mini-brains”) from human embryonic stem cells, later comparing the functionality of the tissue produced with samples of brain tissue from human fetuses with the same degree of [...]
The first trials were carried out twenty years ago, in animals with stem cells in the heart the latest experimentation with satisfactory results in mice was made last year (read HERE). The aim has been to regenerate lost heart muscle [...]
Scientist Hiromitsu Nakauchi is the first researcher in Japan to receive permission from the government to create human-animal embryos, that contain human cells, and transplant them into surrogate animals for gestation, (to create human-animal chimeras) as explained in an article [...]
Cell reprogramming has opened great therapeutic possibilities in medicine. Within this field, one of the most attractive possibilities would be to replace neurons that may be destroyed in various illnesses or following a stroke. Now, a new prospect has been [...]
The Federal Trade Commission in the United States, has filed its first punitive action against two cell therapy companies. The Regenerative Medical Group and the Telehealth Medical Group offer therapy with stem cells derived from amniotic fluid for autism, cerebral [...]
Cancer vaccine advances A new possible use of iPS cells (see medical and ethical advantages of iPS cells treatment) has been opened up, using them as a type of vaccine against cancer. According to a recent study published in journal [...]
Organoids mimic therapies responses We have published several articles about Potential applications of organoids that mimic different organs. We concluded that this creation of organic structures (organoids) similar to others in our body may have objective biomedical applications. On this occasion, an [...]
A biological topic of great interest is to understand the mechanisms of aging. The nervous system is known to clearly affect aging, especially the hypothalamus, but the mechanism by which it occurs is presently unknown. Cells that had been genetically [...]
It appears to have been confirmed that the α-Synuclein gene is the one primarily linked to Parkinson’s disease, while the G209 (p.A53T) mutation of this gene causes a type of Parkinson’s disease characterized by early and severe onset of symptoms. [...]
