By UVA Health - A surprising discovery from the School of Medicine is transforming our understanding of hair growth and could set the stage for new approaches to cure hair loss. Researchers led by UVA’s Lu Q. Le, MD, PhD, have discovered that a previously...

By News Medical Life Sciences - The immune system’s natural killer (NK) cells are large granular cells that constitute the third major lymphocyte subset, representing around 10-15% of circulating lymphocytes in the blood. Natural killer cells are a vital part of the...

By Drug Target Review - CAR-T therapy has shown effectiveness in cancer treatment, but relapse often occurs due to limited cell persistence. New strategies aim to improve CAR T-cell durability for longer lasting remission. immunotherapy has emerged as one of the most...

BY JAKE REDER, CEO OF CELDARA MEDICAL - INC - Though most biopharma investment is in two states, follow this model to bring the research—and investments—elsewhere. The majority of Americans do not live in a biotech hub. Yet 62 percent of all U.S. biopharma venture...

By Cara Lynn Shultz - People - Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard and Reader's Digest. People Editorial Guidelines It’s been 12 years since Robin Roberts returned to the Good Morning America anchor desk...

by Tokyo Metropolitan University - MedicalXpress - Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a way to treat age-related muscular atrophy using regenerative medicine. Conventional methods to implant myoblasts, precursors to muscle fiber, require...

By Jacob Smith - Nature - CAR T remission breaks record - A woman who received CAR-T-cell therapy to treat a nerve-cell cancer when she was 4 years old is still cancer-free 19 years later, the longest reported cancer remission following the treatment. She received the...

by The Scientist - Stem cells form the backbone of many cell-based therapies due to their unique properties, including the ability to self-renew and differentiate to many cell types. Multiple cell therapies deliver exogenous bone marrow stem cells into patients, which...

By Drug Target Review - Regenerative medicine is set to be transformed by induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). These versatile cells can be reprogrammed to become virtually any cell type in the human body, offering groundbreaking possibilities for treating a wide...

By Queen Mary University of London - New research led by Queen Mary’s Institute of Dentistry has found that changes to the intermediate filament (IF) protein, vimentin, were found to promote tumour growth.  Vimentin is a type III intermediate filament (IF) protein...

By Neuroscience News - Scientists have discovered that neural stem cells (NSCs) receive constant feedback from their daughter cells, influencing whether they remain dormant or activate to form new neurons and glia. This parent-child relationship helps regulate brain...

Robert Lea - Advanced Science News - Scientists have developed a new 3D cell culture device made from soft, porous microgel particles that can mimic the effects of pressure on stem cells. This platform allows researchers to study and even influence how stem cells...