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FDA regenerative medicine approvals show growing momentum
By Pharmaceutical Technology - Regenerative medicine offers an innovative approach to treating different indications by restoring damaged or diseased cells and tissues. Following several years of limited activity, FDA approvals for regenerative medicines have...
Base Editing Strategy Alleviates Huntington’s Disease in Mice
By Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News - According to at least one estimate, approximately 41,000 people in the United States have symptoms of Huntington’s disease, and more than 200,000 are at-risk of inheriting the disease. Symptoms of the neurodegenerative...
Large Bioprinted Tissues Get a Precision Boost
By Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News - Improving the cultivation of large bioprinted tissues could help make laboratory-grown tissue models more reliable for drug development and regenerative medicine. At the International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy...
Popular weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy may slow biological aging
By University of California - San Diego - ScienceDaily - By calming inflammation and reducing excess fat, semaglutide may postpone several molecular signs of aging, pointing to the potential of GLP‑1 receptor agonists to help prevent age‑related diseases Researchers...
Mature eye cells turn back into stem cells after injury, mouse study finds
by Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - MedicalXpress Researchers at Technion have uncovered a surprising natural mechanism through which the body repairs itself: Contrary to what was previously believed, mature, aged cells retain an extraordinary ability to...
Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes in glioblastoma: immunobiology and translational implications
By Nature | NPJ Precision Oncology - Glioblastoma (GBM) poses unique challenges to immunotherapy, owing to its low tumor mutational burden, profound antigenic heterogeneity, and highly immunosuppressive microenvironment. Observations of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes...
Open-Access Genetic Map Provides Reference for What Almost Every Stem Cell Gene Does
By Liezel Labios - UC San Diego Today - A team led by bioengineers at the University of California San Diego has developed a genome-scale reference map that details how individual genes control the functions and identities of human stem cells. This open-access...
Stem Cell Therapy Advances Toward Clinical Trial for Chronic Spinal Cord Injury
By Inside Precision Medicine - A stem cell therapy designed to restore function by repairing damaged nerve pathways is moving closer to clinical testing for people with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI), according to research presented at the International Society for...
Could these tiny organs save millions of lives?
by Robin Marks, University of California, San Francisco - Medical Xpress - If you're a woman newly diagnosed with breast cancer, treatment can feel ... well, scary. Will chemotherapy work? Or will it become a cycle of educated guesswork: trying one drug combination,...