Recent News
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January NewsletterJanuary 31, 2019 The monthly newsletter for the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center at UC San Diego Health. |
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November/December NewsletterDecember 23, 2019 The monthly newsletter for the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center at UC San Diego Health. |
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October NewsletterOctober 31, 2019 The monthly newsletter for the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center at UC San Diego Health. |
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September NewsletterSeptember 30, 2019 The monthly newsletter for the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center at UC San Diego Health. |
August NewsletterAugust 31, 2019 The monthly newsletter for the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center at UC San Diego Health. |
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July NewsletterJuly 31, 2019 The monthly newsletter for the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center at UC San Diego Health. |
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Stem Cell Therapies and You: A Patient Advocate EventMay 28, 2019
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April NewsletterApril 30, 2019 The monthly newsletter for the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center at UC San Diego Health. |
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Woman with Myelofibrosis Gets Unapproved Drug with Help of Care TeamApril 23, 2019 On-site in San Diego at the 5th Annual UCSD Division of Regenerative Medicine Symposium, Patient Power co-founder Esther Schorr is joined by myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) survivor Sandra Dillon to explore the fight for access to effective cancer treatments, even in an advanced research setting. |
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New DirectorApril 19, 2019 We are excited to announce Catriona Jamieson, MD, PhD, as the new director of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center at UC San Diego Health. |
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UC San Diego Treats 1st Cancer Patient with Stem-Cell Derived Natural Killer CellsApril 01, 2019 Fate Therapeutics, in collaboration with UC San Diego researcher, developed first off-the-shelf immunotherapy from human induced pluripotent stem cells that is now in clinical trials. |
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Phil Knight Gives $75 Million for Heart Transplants, and Denny Sanford Gives $25 Million for Veterans: Gifts RoundupMarch 18, 2019 The program funded by South Dakota banker Denny Sanford will provide tests for U.S. veterans that try to predict how a patient will respond to a drug therapy based on that person's genetics. |
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Drugs that modify gene expression show promise for autismFebruary 28, 2019 An experimental compound that blocks two enzymes involved in gene expression improves social behavior in young mice, according to a new study. The mice carry a mutation in SHANK3, a top risk gene for autism. |
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Scientists devise strategies to counteract T cell exhaustion in CAR T cancer therapiesFebruary 27, 2019 CAR-T cell therapies have saved lives in patients with blood cancers, but there has been a downside: T cells that enter solid tumors can stop working due to a phenomenon called T cell exhaustion. Now scientists have found a way of counteracting T cell exhaustion and making CAR T cell therapies more effective. |
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Mouse models pinpoint effects of top autism geneFebruary 18, 2019 Two independent sets of mice missing a copy of SETD5, a top autism gene, link the gene to the condition's traits. Findings from the mice, in two studies published in the past two months solidify SETD5's role in autism. |
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How Men Continually Produce Sperm - and How that Discovery Could Help Treat InfertilityFebruary 05, 2019 Using a leading-edge technique, researchers define the cell types in both newborn and adult human testes, opening a path for new strategies to treat male infertility with stem cells. |
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