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Cracking a ‘holy grail’ challenge in cancer cell therapy
By Karen Guzman - Yale News - Yale scientists have engineered natural killer cells that eliminate solid tumors in mouse models. The study may lead to a simpler, “off the shelf” immunotherapy for hard-to-treat cancers. Since scientists first discovered that human...
New Bio-Implant for Spinal Cord Repair
By Neuroscience News.com - Spinal cord injuries have long been considered permanent because neurons in the central nervous system lack the natural ability to regrow. However, researchershave developed a novel, 3D-printed implant that could change that. The study...
Seattle jury awards $24M in lawsuit against stem cell center
By Elise Takahama - Seattle Times - A King County jury has awarded $24 million to the family of a man who died a day after treatment at a Seattle stem cell center. Mike Trujillo was 62, a longtime electrician who ran an electrical company in Colorado. After being...
Phase I/II study finds intravitreal CD34+ stem cells safe and feasible in CRVO
by Lynda Charters - Opthamology - A newly published study found that intravitreal injection of autologous CD34+ stem cells is well tolerated and feasible for treating loss of vision resulting from central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO), according to a press release...
After gene therapy exit, Pfizer locks in global license for Beam gene editing candidate
By Will Maddox - Fierce Biotech - After dumping its sole remaining gene therapy asset last year, Pfizer has decided to exercise its option for global rights to Beam Therapeutics’ liver-targeted gene editing candidate. The agreement, announced in Beam’s end-of-year...
More Sensitive Cell Therapy May Be a HIT Against Solid Cancers
By Columbia University Irving Medical Center - CAR-T cell therapy has revolutionized the treatment of many blood cancers, but has shown little success against solid tumors, which account for over 85% of all cancers. Columbia researchers have now found that a new type...
New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue
By Oregon State University - Science Daily - Scientists at Oregon State University have engineered a powerful new nanomaterial that zeroes in on cancer cells and destroys them from the inside out. Designed to exploit cancer’s unique chemistry—its acidity and high...
Humans Have a Third Set of Teeth. New Medicine May Help Them Grow.
By Tim Newcomb - Popular Mechanics - They could be ready by 2030. A sliver of what makes sharks so intriguing comes with their ability to regrow teeth. And while a group of Japanese researchers aren’t claiming that we should be trying to be the most shark-like...
AI uncovers the hidden genetic control centers driving Alzheimer’s
By University of California - Irvine - ScienceDaily - Scientists have created the most detailed maps yet of how genes control one another inside the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. Using a powerful new AI-based system called SIGNET, the team uncovered...
Stem cell therapy ‘reverses’ type 2 diabetes in world-first case in China
By Smarica Pant - India Today - hinese researchers say a patient with Type 2 diabetes is now insulin-free after stem cell treatment. Experts call it promising but caution that more large-scale trials are needed. In what is being described as a major medical milestone,...
Smart biomaterials for skeletal aging repair and regeneration
By Nature | Bone Research - Skeletal aging associated with diverse age-related disorders is increasing due to unhealthy diets, stressful lifestyles, and rapid aging. Repair and regeneration of aging skeletons are a global issue. Despite the self-healing ability of...
Gene editing that spreads within the body could cure more diseases
By Michael Le Page - NewScientist - The idea of self-amplifying gene editing is to get cells to pass on packages of CRISPR machinery to their neighbours, boosting the effect Imagine if, instead of delivering a leaflet individually to each home, a postal worker just...