Category Archives: Regenerative Medicine News and General Information

In a recently published study, international researchers in collaboration have found that the medication Pembrolizumab induces HIV latency reversal in people living with HIV and cancer on antiretroviral therapy. The results appear in the journal Science Translational Medicine.  The research team found that this medication can reverse the virus latency, which is the ability that […]

Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working on a new kind of device that could streamline the process of blood glucose measurement and insulin injection, making it easier for patients and increasing the metabolic control of diabetic patients.  People with diabetes that are under an insulin treatment regimen need to inject the medication […]

Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common causes of heel pain, which involves inflammation of a thick band of tissue that runs across the bottom of each foot and connects the heel bone to the toes, the plantar fascia. It commonly causes a stabbing pain that occurs typically with the first steps in the […]

Vertex Pharmaceuticals announced last year that the first Type 1 diabetes (T1D) patient was about to be dosed in their Phase I/II clinical trial that investigates stem cell therapy, VX-880. They announced that this patient had a reduction in insulin use of about 91% just 90 days after receiving an infusion of the fully differentiated […]

Recent discoveries made by researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center may help make cancer treatment more efficient and shorten the time people need in order to recover from chemotherapy and radiation. First Study: Syndecan-2 Protein In the first study published in the journal Blood, researchers discovered a protein that is expressed by blood stem cells that […]

Bioengineers had successfully regrow cartilage in a rabbit’s knee using piezoelectricity, which appears to be a secret to successfully regrowth robust, functional cartilage in mammalian joints. The study was published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.  Arthritis is a common and painful disease caused by damage to our joints. Normally pads of cartilage cushion those […]

Researchers at the Université de Montréal have recently published a meta-analysis in the journal Addiction, in which they explored current research studies exploring cannabis use and its effects on cognitive function.  The study included a collection of 10 cannabis meta-analyses, with a total of 43,761 participants, with the aim to learn what these studies revealed […]

The human microbiome is increasingly recognized as a key player in human health. Although most research has focused on the bacterial component, and to some extent unicellular eukaryotes (including fungi) and their viruses, the archaea have been largely overlooked, mainly due to methodological reasons. Archaea are prokaryotes, like bacteria, but are different in cell structure, […]

Heavy alcohol consumption is often associated with poor diet, smoking, and lack of exercise, all factors known to increase cancer risk. That is the reason why some have suggested that these factors mostly account for any correlation between alcohol consumption and cancer. A new study from China looked at the genetic data from 150,000 Chinese […]