By Cristy Lytal - Keck School of Medicine of USC - The same genes could hold the key to regenerating cells in the ear and eye, according to a new mouse study from the USC Stem Cell laboratory of Ksenia Gnedeva, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...

by BioSpace Insights - Industry updates and investment insights—including investor behavior and fundraising advice—were among the topics experts explored at Charles River Laboratories’ 2025 Cell & Gene Therapy Summit. With the cell and gene therapies (CGTs) sector...

By Katherine Eban - Vanity Fair - If you’ve ever used eye drops that didn’t blind you, thank Dr. Timothy J. Pohlhaus. As of yesterday, he’s gone. And if you’ve ever been injected with a sterile drug that helped heal you instead of killing you, you have relied on the...

By Joseph Shapiro - NPR Health News - The layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services slashed the staffs of major federal aging, disability and anti-poverty programs, leaving the future of those programs uncertain. At least 40% of staff got layoff notices...

By Smriti Mallapaty - Nature - Another man also regained some movement, but two others experienced minimal improvement. A paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal-cord injury. The Japanese man was one of...

By Marissa Locke Rottinghaus - ASBMB Today - Regenerative medicine is rewriting the future of health care, with stem cells leading the charge as researchers report that their experimental induced pluripotent stem cell, or iPSC, therapeutics could restore vision and...

PODCAST by Brian Culley - Beyond Biotech - Spinal cord injuries impact millions of people worldwide and, unlike many chronic injuries, they usually arrive with no forewarning, impacting the young and old alike. Brian Culley is CEO of Lineage Cell Therapeutics and his...

By Bill Hathaway - Yale Health & Medicine - Yale scientists have developed a CRISPR technology that can assess genetic interactions on a host of immunological responses to multiple diseases, including cancer. Advances in the gene-editing technology known as...

By Tim Bertram - Pharmaphorum - The field of regenerative medicine is advancing rapidly, offering transformative solutions for a wide range of health conditions. However, while scientific breakthroughs in regenerative medicines like cell and gene therapies continue,...

“An important step towards slowing aging and the onset of major age-related chronic diseases” Washington, DC and San Francisco, CA, March 27, 2025— The Healthspan Action Coalition (HSAC) and the Kitalys Institute jointly proposed today the initial draft of a bill...

By Dennis Nealon - Harvard Research - Research led by new faculty member Michael Segel focuses on mammalian lifespans Sixteen years ago, Michael Segel was a rising senior at Brookline High School in Massachusetts when, acting on a friend’s suggestion, he signed on for...

By University of California - Santa Cruz - SciTechDaily - Scientists have found a way to study early embryonic development without real embryos. Using CRISPR, they programmed stem cells to self-organize into structures mimicking early embryos. The cells show...