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JPM24, Day 3: Gene editors talk business development
By Annalee Armstrong, Gabrielle Masson, James Waldron, Max Bayer, Ben Adams - Fierce Biotech We're off for another day of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference 2024. The flood of licensing deals and M&A may have slowed, but there's still plenty of action to come...
How Smart Should Robots Be?
By Eve Herold - Time - Ideas • Technology - When people hear the words “social engineering,” they usually think of the supposed nefarious designs of government or an opposing political party. These days, there’s a general sense of social upheaval brought on by some...
UCLA study unveils key mechanisms driving stem cell aging
by Michael Carey, PhD - UCLA Health - A study by UCLA scientists has uncovered significant insights into stem cell aging, specifically in neural stem and progenitor cells (NSPCs) in the mouse brain. The research reveals that NSPC aging is primarily characterized by a...
11 clinical trials that will shape medicine in 2024
By Carrie Arnold & Paul Webster - Nature Medicine - Nature Medicine asks leading researchers to name their top clinical trial for 2024, from base editing and a vaccine against HIV to artificial intelligence tools for lung cancer and patient triage. Pharma’s ongoing...
The Age of Crispr Medicine Is Here
By Emily Mullin - Wired- “It was a circus, bouncing from specialist to specialist and constantly desecrating my body with endless amounts of prescription pills, all in the hopes of finding a sliver of what it feels like to be alive,” Olaghere told an advisory...
Using Machine Learning and AI in Oncology December 29, 2023
By James Zou, PhD - Targeted Oncology (click here for video) - James Zou, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical data science at Stanford University, discusses machine learning and the different ways oncologists are utilizing it for the management, treatment, and...
ISU stem-cell research could enable new treatment for those with blood diseases
By: Brooklyn Draisey - Iowa Capital Dispatch - Findings from a group of Iowa State University researchers could lead to the ability to create new blood stem cells from a patient’s own blood, possibly doing away with the need for bone marrow transplants. ISU assistant...
Wearable Ultrasounds: A Sonic Leap In Regenerative Medicine
By William A. Haseltine - Forbes - In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection of interventions that restore to normal function tissues and organs that have been damaged by disease, injured by trauma, or worn by time. I include a full spectrum of...
A New Type of Immunotherapy: MSK’s Christopher Klebanoff Is Fighting Cancer Cells From the Inside Out
By Matthew Tontonoz - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center When Christopher Klebanoff, MD, came to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) from the National Cancer Institute in 2016, he was focused on a singular goal: bringing the promise of cellular...
Scientists Use Organoid Model to Identify Potential New Pancreatic Cancer Treatment
by Weil Cornell Medicine - A drug screening system that models cancers using lab-grown tissues called organoids has helped uncover a promising target for future pancreatic cancer treatments, according to a new study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine. In the...
Here’s What Happened in 2023: Biggest Innovation Quarter Stories
One of the 2023 highlights for #regenerativemedicinefoundation was our special project- World Stem Cell Summit in June at the fabulous #InnovationQuarter in #visitWinstonSalem- The 20th annual Summit was combined with the #WFIRM Regenerative Medicine Essentials Course...
How serious is FDA warning about revolutionary blood-cancer treatment?
By Alvin Powell - The Harvard Gazette - The Food and Drug Administration announced last week that it’s investigating reports of secondary cancers in patients who received CAR T-cell therapy, one of a suite of immunotherapies that have revolutionized cancer care over...