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Japan aims to develop 'next-gen' iPS cells for strokes and kidney failure

Japan stem cell heart disease patch gets insurance approval

Amid patient deaths and adverse events Japan needs to tackle its unproven regenerative clinics

There is growing concern about unproven regenerative clinics getting out of control in Japan. Some clinic customers have died there. More have experienced adverse events. Some of t...

Japanese scientists grow sheet of heart muscle cells for world’s first general-patient ReHeart-ing

Patient had a new piece of her own heart attached to her old one. We often report on scientific and medical breakthroughs that have the potential to change the world, but more ofte...

World’s First iPS Cell Heart Surgery Performed in Osaka

A woman in her 50s with severe heart failure underwent what was described as the world's first surgery using commercially available iPS cell-derived heart muscle sheets at an Osaka...

Where Next For Present Stem Cell Therapies?

First generation stem cell therapies have become widespread; they are readily accessed in medical tourism clinics, and are also available for a range of issues in more regulated pa...

CAR T Manufacturing in Japan Gets Boost from Teijin-Shinshu University Research Collaboration

Shinshu University Hospital's expertise in CAR T-cell therapy R&D and clinical application will be combined with Teijin Regenet's manufacturing and quality-management expertise...

America’s growing Muse cell mess: Dezawa Muse cells, “counterfeits”, & FDA compliance questions

Muse cells have jumped back onto my radar screen in the past year, including one specific type called Dezawa Muse cells. They are purported adult pluripotent stem cells. The combin...

Scientists Just Discovered a Major Problem With Lab-Grown Human Embryo Models

A map built from more than 14,000 embryo cells reveals what stem cell models get right about early human development and where researchers could improve them. Under a microscope, a...

A Method for Assessing Lab-Grown Stem Cell-Derived Embryo Models

Researchers developed a method for testing how closely lab-grown blastoid models resemble real human embryos, finding that while some models perform well, none fully captures the c...

Dental Pulp Stem Cell Secretome as a Treatment to Improve Outcomes Following Stroke

Since stem cell therapies produce beneficial effects via a short burst of signaling from the transplanted cells rather than via any long-lasting survival and engraftment of those c...

iPS細胞で作った心筋シート、世界初の実用化　心不全患者に移植

A Review of Animal Study Evidence for Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy to Treat Neurodegeneration

Researchers here assess the present animal study evidence for first generation stem cell therapies to produce benefits in the most common neurodegenerative conditions, and also the...

iPSC Manufacturing Starts with the Source

For iPSC developers, scalable manufacturing begins long before the bioreactor. Pluristyx leaders explain why starting material, process discipline, automation, and shared data will...

Life Biosciences Reports Initial Results from the First Reprogramming Trial

Partial epigenetic reprogramming involves exposing cells to some or all of the Yamanaka factors for a long enough period of time to reset epigenetic decorations on nuclear DNA and...

iPSで作ったヒト脳オルガノイド、マウスに移植　神経回路を形成

Celebrating 20 years of iPS cells with a $200 contest

I have to admit to loving just about everything related to iPS cells. If you love them or other pluripotent stem cells enough, you might win $200. Maybe the clearest sign of my foc...

New Progress -- XellSmart Unveiled Phase I Results of Off-the-Shelf Parkinson's Disease Cell Therapy at MDS & Comple...

SEOUL, South Korea and SHANGHAI, Oct. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- New clinical data for XellSmart's off-the-shelf cell therapy for Parkinson's Disease was presented at the Internation...

Stem cells survive unexpectedly rough space travel

In early 2024, laboratory-grown neurospheres (i.e. clusters of neural stem cells) were sent to the International Space Station (ISS) to be exposed to microgravity. The return trip...

Health Ministry Issues Advisory on Regulation of Stem Cell Therapy

The advisory also draws attention to the consequences of non-compliance with the framework governing stem cell therapy

Four Japanese scientists win prestigious U.S. Lasker Awards

One received the prize for his work on a sleep-regulating brain chemical, and a trio, for discovering an antibody therapy for hemophilia A patients.

Japanese Researchers Win Prestigious Lasker Awards

The Lasker Foundation awarded four Japanese researchers across two categories for their groundbreaking work in hemophilia and narcolepsy.

Partial Cell Reprogramming Shields Aging Mouse Brains from Ischemic Stroke Damage

Cyclic induction of the Yamanaka reprogramming factors for four weeks before stroke reduced ischemic brain damage, preserved neurons and myelin, and improved forelimb motor scores...

Stem Cell Feeder Platforms Boost Natural Killer Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy

Researchers have developed engineered feeder cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells that prolong the survival and boost the killing power of natural killer cells, offeri...