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Announcing the international speakers for this year's Neonatal Cell Therapies Symposium being held in conjunction with Australasian Brain Club: Prof Won Soon Park, 🇰🇷 Prof Augusto Zani, 🇺🇸 29-31 Oct 2025 Noosa, QLD, 🇦🇺 Registrations opening soon: australasianbrainclub.com/meetings-and-e…

‘New method creates 854x more mitochondria, offering hope for cartilage regeneration’ – Zhejiang University team pioneers ‘a stem cell-based system that functions as a mitochondria factory’ [Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s41413…] eurekalert.org/news-releases/…

‘Brain’ of late composer lives on in show at the Art Gallery of Western Australia – 'Revivification' exhibition uses a ‘mini-brain’, grown from stem cells originating from donated blood of Alvin Lucier, to create 'historic' sound installation in real time: theartnewspaper.com/2025/03/27/bra…

In a new study published in Science Magazine, Vijay Sankaran of Dana-Farber and Dana-Farber/Boston Children's researchers introduce Perturb-multiome, a tool to reverse-engineer how DNA controls blood cell formation. Read more: bit.ly/4hYLHH7

‘People are getting costly stem cell injections for knee osteoarthritis. But we don’t know if they work’ – new review questions benefits and harms [doi.org/10.1002/146518…]: theconversation.com/people-are-get… Monash University The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Professor Jane Visvader's groundbreaking discoveries at WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) have fundamentally changed how we understand breast development and cancer.

Congratulations to our 2019 Metcalf Prize winner Professor James Hudson James Hudson

Double cause for celebration: congratulations to Prof Jane Visvader (who sits on our Metcalf Prize Jury) and Prof James Hudson (2019 Metcalf Prize winner). WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) QIMR Berghofer

‘Cells very similar to neurons obtained from human dental stem cells’ – UPV/EHU researchers hope their discovery will advance cell therapy for neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington’s disease [Paper: https:/doi.org/10.1186/s13287-025-04134-7]: ehu.eus/en/web/campusa…

The Australasian Brain Club & Newborn Cell Therapies combined #ABCNCT2025 Symposium is now open for registrations and abstracts: australasianbrainclub.com/meetings-and-e… Join us in Noosa 🌴, QLD, in October 2025!

‘This Bizarre “Immortal” Creature Could Hold the Secret to Reversing Aging’ – University of Michigan team finds planarian worms don’t lose adult stem cells with age and regenerate into youthful versions of themselves, even growing new heads. Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s43587… scitechdaily.com/this-bizarre-i…

Our 2024 Metcalf Prize winner Dr William Roman William Roman features in today's Bench Side Story profile. Read about his research to grow human muscles on a chip: stemcellfoundation.net.au/william_roman_… EMBL Australia Monash University

Pregnant women who consume menthol vapes may harm unborn babies’ – UC Riverside study uses human embryonic stem cells to examine how menthol affects cellular processes [Paper: academic.oup.com/stcltm/article…] uk.news.yahoo.com/pregnant-women…

‘Groundbreaking stem cell trial for knee osteoarthritis’ – clinical trial in Abu Dhabi focuses on regenerative properties of mesenchymal stem cells via use of a novel, injectable therapy (StromaForte): gulftoday.ae/news/2025/04/1… دائرة الصحة - أبوظبي

‘Groundbreaking discovery could revolutionise treatment of debilitating diseases’ – international team detects peripheral neural stem cells in lung tissue offering hope for new therapies [Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s41556…]: au.news.yahoo.com/groundbreaking… Max Planck Society

‘Round Cells Square Up with an Optogenetic Switch’ – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team engineers a light-activated enzyme to control the shape of starfish egg cells, with a focus on future wound healing therapies: the-scientist.com/round-cells-sq… Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s41567…

Latest findings out of U Calgary on use of porcine induced pluripotent stem cells (PiPSCs) to grow retinal organoids. Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.stem…

Always great to see what our funded scientists are doing in Australia and across the world. Assoc Prof Atul Malhotra Atul Malhotra is one of them: stemcellfoundation.net.au/atul_malhotra_… Monash University Monash Children's

Tune in tomorrow and Thursday for ABC News Radio National’s broadcast of the ‘Making cancer treatment worth it’ public forum with Big Ideas presenter Natasha Mitchell (she/her) in conversation with top cancer and stem cell experts: abc.net.au/listen/program… Australasian Society for Stem Cell Research South Australian immunoGENomics Cancer Institute Uni of Adelaide

‘Parkinson’s Cell Therapies Are Safe in Two Clinical Trials’ – Two independent research teams publish results in Nature on patients receiving transplants of lab-grown dopaminergic neuron progenitor cells: insideprecisionmedicine.com/topics/transla… Kyoto University BlueRock Therapeutics