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...

By by Rachael Robertson MedPageToday - After HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hosted a roundtableopens in a new tab or window on reducing regulations on stem cells earlier this month, experts have raised concerns about a potential flourishing of questionable stem...

By Technology Networks - Reprogrammed stem cells to replace dopamine cells in the brain may offer hope for Parkinson's treatment. A recently launched Phase 1 clinical trial at Mass General Brigham is examining the safety and feasibility of a groundbreaking treatment...

By Mass General Brigham - A recently launched Phase 1 clinical trial at Mass General Brigham is examining the safety and feasibility of a groundbreaking treatment approach for Parkinson’s disease in which a patient’s stem cells are reprogrammed to replace dopamine...