Children with type 1 diabetes (T1D) face lifelong struggles with controlling their blood sugar levels and, despite careful management, an increased risk of severe complications. Currently, there is no approved therapy…
Capricor is using donor cells derived from the heart to treat patients suffering from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), a genetic disorder that leads to progressive muscle degeneration, including heart muscle.…
Forty Seven, Inc. has developed an antibody therapy to block a protein called CD47 that is found on the surface of cancer cells. CD47 acts as a 'don't eat me'…
Femoral head osteonecrosis (aka avascular necrosis) is a disease caused by loss of blood supply to the bone, leading to bone cell death, end stage hip arthritis and total hip…
In this trial, Capricor Therapeutics used donor cells derived from the heart to treat patients at risk for developing heart failure after a heart attack. In previous clinical studies, the…
A team at Stanford University is using a molecule known as an antibody to target cancer stem cells. This antibody can recognize and bind to CD47, a protein the cancer stem cells…
ImmunoCellular Therapeutics is targeting six proteins that are found on the surface of cancer stem cells in glioblastoma, a brain cancer. Immune cells from the patient's own immune system are…
Solid tumors are the most prevalent form of cancer, and are a major cause of death worldwide. A team at UCLA is testing a drug for the treatment of cancer…
A team at UC Davis is taking a patient's blood forming stem cells and inserting three anti-HIV genes into them and then returning them to the individual to help rebuild…
A team at City of Hope and Sangamo Therapeutics is genetically modifying patients' blood forming stem cells to functionally cure people with HIV. The team is using a technology called zinc finger nucleases…
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