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Designing blood vessels for 3D printed hearts

Designing blood vessels for 3D printed hearts

By Stanford Report - Stanford researchers have developed a faster, more precise way to model and print vascular systems, solving a critical challenge in fabricating transplantable organs from patients’ own cells. There are more than 100,000 people on organ transplant...

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New Immunotherapy Reverses Cholesterol Damage in Heart Cells

New Immunotherapy Reverses Cholesterol Damage in Heart Cells

By Sant Pau Research Institute - SciTechDaily - A new antibody treatment prevents cholesterol buildup in heart mitochondria and restores energy production, offering hope for future heart disease therapies. An international team of researchers has uncovered how...

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FDA Greenlights Twice-A-Year HIV Prevention Drug

FDA Greenlights Twice-A-Year HIV Prevention Drug

By Antonio Pequeño IV - Forbes - Yeztugo, a twice-a-year antiviral shot to prevent HIV, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, marking a major advance in battling AIDS. Key Facts The drug (which has the generic name lenacapavir) will become...

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Son’s diabetes diagnosis sent scientist on quest for cure

Son’s diabetes diagnosis sent scientist on quest for cure

by Kermit Pattison - The Harvard Gazette - Decades later, Doug Melton and team are testing treatment that could make insulin shots obsolete. Doug Melton’s life irrevocably changed the day his child was diagnosed with a life-threatening disease. But unlike most other...

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Blocking a single enzyme rewires limb regrowth in axolotls

Blocking a single enzyme rewires limb regrowth in axolotls

By Vijay Kumar Malesu - Medical life Sciences News - In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers in the United States explored how cytochrome P450 family 26 subfamily B member 1 (CYP26B1)-mediated retinoic acid (RA) breakdown...

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Stem cell therapies advance in Parkinson’s disease and beyond

Stem cell therapies advance in Parkinson’s disease and beyond

By Natalie Healey - Nature Medicine - Landmark trials using stem cells to treat Parkinson’s disease in the USA and Japan mark a turning point for cell therapy in neurodegeneration. Similar approaches to Alzheimer’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis are also...

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After groundbreaking CRISPR therapy, a homecoming

After groundbreaking CRISPR therapy, a homecoming

By Meghana Keshavan - Stat News - From my colleague Jason Mast: KJ Muldoon, the first infant treated with a personalized gene-editing drug, has been discharged from the hospital for the first time in his life, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia announced Tuesday....

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