The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) approved a $4.1 million grant to enable University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers to advance a new chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy from the laboratory into the clinic.

Stem cell transplant replaces a person’s blood-forming (hematopoietic) stem cells. It is used when stem cells or the bone marrow has been damaged by chemotherapy drugs, radiation therapy or disease (such as cancer). The new stem cells make healthy blood cells.

A stem cell transplant (also known as a bone marrow transplant) is a procedure in which defective or cancerous bone marrow is replaced with new, healthy bone marrow cells. A stem cell transplant may be used to treat leukemia and lymphoma, cancers that affect the blood and lymphatic system.

In this article, Sino Biological discusses how stem cells can be used to support and aid cancer therapy and treatment. They discuss different types of stem cells, pathways to target and how to best produce them.

A new study shows how iPS cell technology can produce some of the most potent anti-cancer immune cells for adoptive cell therapies.

Harnessing the immune system to target cancer is the goal of a groundbreaking area of oncology research called cell therapy. And Johnson & Johnson is hard at work in the cutting-edge field, aiming to deliver potential new treatment options to people around the world.

Adoptive cell therapy is a type of cancer treatment that reactivates, enhances, and expands naturally occurring, cancer-fighting immune cells before re-infusing them into patients.

A clinical trial run by UCLA is testing a potentially pioneering form of immunotherapy that could turn a patient's own body into a powerful weapon against cancer.

Investigators from academia and industry gathered on April 4 and 5, 2013, in Washington DC at the Arrowhead’s 2nd Annual Cancer Immunotherapy Conference. Two complementary concepts were discussed: cancer “stem cells” as targets and therapeutic platforms based on stem cells.

In an autologous transplant, your own blood-forming stem cells are collected and stored and then given back to you after treatment to kill the cancer. Learn about how this process works.

This transplant uses your own stem cells to replace blood cells destroyed by high doses of chemotherapy and other treatments.

Learn how stem cell & bone marrow transplants are used to treat cancer and view a list of questions you might want to ask about transplants.

Stem cell transplants are procedures that restore blood-forming stem cells in cancer patients who have had theirs destroyed by very high doses of chemotherapy or radiation therapy. Learn about the types of transplants and side effects that may occur.

Two recent discoveries by stem cell scientists at Cedars-Sinai may help make cancer treatment more efficient and shorten the time it takes for people to recover from radiation and chemotherapy.In the first study, published in the journal Blood, investigators discovered a protein that is expressed by blood stem cells that could aid in identifying...

The insufficient and unspecific target of traditional therapeutic approaches in cancer treatment often leads to therapy resistance and cancer recurrence. Over the past decades, accumulating discoveries about stem cell biology have provided new potential ...

Current cancer therapies target the bulk of the tumour, while a population of highly resistant tumour cells may be able to repopulate the tumour and metastasize to new sites. Cancer cells with such stem cell-like characteristics can be identified based on their phenotypical and/or functional feature …

Using stem-cell technology and a three-dimensional culture system, CCR scientists turn back the clock on aging anti-cancer immune cells. Read more...

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If you simply write down your wishes for who you want to inherit your property, have you created a legally binding will? It depends on where you live.

A holographic will is a simple handwritten will. But just because it’s easy to define a holographic will doesn’t mean they’re right for everyone. Here’s why ...

A holographic will sounds high-tech, but it's quite the opposite: A totally handwritten will. What is the legal status of such wills?

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A holographic will is a handwritten will signed by the testator which requires no witnesses.