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Stem cell transplant transforms life of toddler with beta thalassemia major
By Lynn Nicho;ls - Stanford Medicine - From Frequent Transfusions to a Cure for Beta Thalassemia Wade Huynh, age 3, was born with a serious blood disorder, and he needed a stem cell transplant to thrive. Luckily, he didn’t need to look far for a donor match—just...

An Avatar for Studying Human Health: Tissue Chips
By NASA - High school student Kyle Benjamin speaks with Dr. Lisa Carnell, program scientist of NASA’s Translational Research Program, about her work using tissue chips to study human biology in space -- and what it could mean for personalized medicine back on Earth....

Florida lawmakers approve bill to improve access to some unapproved stem cell therapies
By Rick Mayer - WUSF-NPR - Health News Florida The measure authorizes physicians to perform the treatments for orthopedics, wound care or pain management with strict requirements to ensure safety and ethics. Before the annual session ended last week, the Florida...

The Potential Impact Of U.S. Tariffs On The Biotech Sector: Manufacturing, Funding, And Clinical Trials
By Raymond Forslund, PhD - Clinical Leader - The imposition of tariffs by the United States government has introduced significant uncertainties across various industries, including biotechnology. This white paper examines the potential ramifications of these tariffs...

Aging Decoded: Terms You Need to Know – Healthspan Compass Podcast Episode 2
By Kevin McMahon - Healthspan Action Coalition - Join our hosts, Junaid Mian of 1435 Capital Management and Melissa King from the Healthspan Action Coalition for this edition of Healthspan Compass. In this episode, our hosts aim to establish a foundational...

Can space help heal hearts? ISS study charts new path for stem cell therapy
By Brian Buntz - Drug Discovery & Development - Emory University stem-cell biologist Chunhui Xu is looking to space for a new way to mend damaged hearts on Earth. Her team is using the International Space Station (ISS) National Lab to test if the near-weightless...

Inaugural graduates in Translational Biotechnology Master of Science prepared for impactful careers in STEM
Press Release by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist - May 15, 2025 - Dr. Minni Saluja enrolled in the Translational Biotechnology Master of Science program at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine because she was interested in the role regenerative...
Bioprinted Aorta Shows Promise for Cardiovascular Disease Treatment
by Isabella Backman - Yale School of Medicine - Yale researchers have built a 3D-bioprinted synthetic aorta that they have successfully implanted into rats. This technology could advance the treatment of cardiovascular diseases such as coronary artery disease or...
Enhanced CAR T cell therapy offers new strategy for lymphoma
By Meagan Raeke - Penn Medicine News - PHILADELPHIA – A next-generation “armored” CAR T cell therapy showed promising results in a small study of patients whose B-cell lymphomas continued to resist multiple rounds of other cancer treatments, including commercially...

The best and brightest young scientists are looking beyond the U.S. as cuts hit home
By Evan Bush - NBS News - Jack Castelli had it all figured out. The University of Washington doctoral student had spent the past three years developing new gene-editing techniques that could spur immunity to the virus that causes AIDS. Early testing in mice showed...

New MRI technique lights up ‘zombie cells’ that contribute to arthritis
By Rachel Tompa - Stanford Medicine - Research led by Stanford Medicine points to the first non-invasive imaging method to visualize senescent cells, which are alive but dormant and play a key role in many diseases. Anyone who’s had a knee or other joint replacement...

Gene Therapy Restores Immune Function in Children With Rare Disorder
by University of California Los Angeles - Technology Networks - An investigational gene therapy has successfully restored immune function in all nine children treated with the rare and life-threatening immune disorder called severe leukocyte adhesion deficiency-I, or...