Visual impairment and vision loss can have a profound impact on a person’s ability to live their life and complete their daily routine. According to the report for the 2016 National Health Interview Survey, 25.5 million Adult Americans 18 and older reported experiencing vision loss. Of these 25.5 million American adults, 15.3 million women and … Continue reading Join us for our next installment of “Ask The Stem Cell Team” on November 1st.

Almost 15 years ago, California voters via approval of Proposition 71 authorized $3 billion to create the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). CIRM, otherwise known as California’s Stem Cell Agency, accelerates stem cell treatments for patients with unmet medical needs. Along with the fact that CIRM has pioneered the way for cutting edge science, … Continue reading Coproduction : Patient Advocacy Redefined

By: Shyam Patel Over 1200 business and science leaders in regenerative medicine descended upon an uncharacteristically cloudy San Diego last week for the annual Cell and Gene Meeting on the Mesa. Reflecting the general growth and enthusiasm in the industry the meeting attracts so many attendees now that it is forced to move to a … Continue reading A Recap: Meeting on the Mesa

By: Geoffrey Lomax Dr. PHD In August, I had the pleasure of representing CIRM at California’s first conference dedicated entirely to training nurses and health professionals about cellular therapies. The City of Hope Alpha Stem Cell Clinic sponsored the program titled: Critical Role of Nursing Cellular Therapies. The Alpha Clinic at City of Hope has … Continue reading The CIRM Alpha Clinics Highlight the Critical Role of Nurses in Regenerative Medicine

TEDx talks are an excellent resource to learn about a myriad of subjects. They’re available on almost any subject and you can watch most of them in 18 minutes or less. This week instead of our traditional roundup, we are featuring a roundup of talks that caught our eye by speakers who are involved with … Continue reading 3 Must Watch TEDx Talks About Stem Cell Research

Our body’s largest organ, the skin, regenerates itself on a weekly basis. To accomplish this goal, it maintains a self-renewing population of stem cells that can become the many different types of cells found within the skin. This self-renewal, however, must be tightly regulated because uncontrolled cell division can lead to disease like cancer. Investigators … Continue reading Skin stem cells take cues from their neighbors during self-renewal

For years new parents have had to decide if they want to save their baby’s cord blood because it is rich in stem cells and could, theoretically, be used later to help the child if they develop diseases like leukemia. Now there’s a new twist to this idea, with clinics offering to store fat from … Continue reading Could freezing your stem cells save your life? Fat chance.

When you are told your newborn child has a life-threatening condition and needs immediate help, your world tends to get very small very fast. All you are focused on is making the right decision to save your child. That’s what happened with Pawash and Upasana, the parents of Ronav (“Ronnie”) Kashyap. When they were told … Continue reading How a rare and fatal childhood disorder brought two families together and helped reinforce a life-changing decision

The Journal of the American Medical Association, better known as JAMA, is a prestigious peer-reviewed journal that is not for the faint of heart. Its articles are dense scientific studies with equally dense titles – such as ‘Transendocardial Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Mononuclear Bone Marrow Cells for Ischemic Cardiomyopathy’. But a recent article was a … Continue reading High profile journal takes on clinics offering unproven therapies