RESTORE Large Scale Research Initiative New Fact Sheets and Presentation

Before Kick-off meeting in Berlin, RESTORE Community has published two important presentations which can be downloaded in the website and here we present and attach them. The first is a presentation of the Community Fact sheet. The second is a PowerPoint presentation. OVERVIEW Shifting from treating symptoms to curing chronic diseases by making the transformative

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Preclinical Safety Study of a Combined Therapeutic Bone Wound Dressing for Osteoarticular Regeneration

Investigators tested the preclinical safety of the innovative implant ARTiCAR for the treatment of osteoarticular lesions. Thanks to the combination of two advanced therapy medicinal products, a polymeric nanofibrous bone wound dressing and bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells, the ARTiCAR promoted both subchondral bone and cartilage regeneration. [Nat Commun] The extended life expectancy and the

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Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Are Required for Regeneration and Homeostatic Maintenance of Skeletal Muscle

Researchers of the Stanford University College of Medicine have just published an important paper on FAP mesenchymal stromal cells in muscle regeneration. The necessity of mesenchymal stromal cells, called fibroadipogenic progenitors (FAPs), in skeletal muscle regeneration and maintenance remains unestablished. We report the generation of a PDGFRαCreER knockin mouse model that provides a specific means of

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Targeting Huntingtin Expression and Gene Therapy in Patients with Huntington’s Disease

Data presented at the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) meeting this week on experimental therapeutics for Huntington’s disease gave some cause for optimism. And, as good research does, they identified new questions as they answered current ones. At the meeting, researchers presented new data on antisense oligonucleotide HTTRx (RG-6042, Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc./Roche Holding AG) that

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Most Healthcare, Fitness Tracker, And Wellness Apps Are Not Covered By HIPAA And HHS’s New Faqs Makes That Clear

Individuals who use healthcare apps such as fitness trackers, weight loss, wellness, exercise, etc., BEWARE!A couple of recent developments have highlighted the fact that most apps are not subject to HIPAA, which means that with broadly-worded privacy policy these healthcare apps can and do readily share healthcare and other data collected by the apps with third

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Letter to the Duchenne Community: Gene Therapy IGNITE DMD Status and New Clinical Sites

Dear Duchenne Community, We want to provide you with an update on the progress of SolidBiosciences IGNITE DMD Phase I/II clinical trial for our investigational microdystrophin gene transfer, SGT-001. Since we communicated preliminary clinical data in February, we advanced the study to evaluate SGT-001 at a higher dose in the second cohort of patients. As

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Artificial intelligence could select heart failure patients for expensive treatment

Machine learning algorithm predicts sudden death in heart failure patients for the first time Artificial intelligence (AI) has shown promise to select heart failure patients for expensive treatments to prevent lethal arrhythmias, reports a study presented today at ICNC 2019. (1) The study is the first to use a machine learning algorithm to predict sudden

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