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Mayo Clinic engages Cerebras to deliver potent computing power, scale AI transformation
By Samiha Khanna - Mayo Clinic News Network - ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic, the world’s No. 1 hospital and a global leader in advancing trusted generative artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare applications, has announced a multi-year strategic collaboration with...

Closing in on the ultimate quest to regenerate insulin in pancreatic stem cells
By Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute - Researchers are zeroing in on the ultimate quest to regenerate insulin in pancreatic stem cells and replace the need for regular insulin injections. Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute researchers have demonstrated in a Nature...

Stem Cell Investigations to Improve Cancer Treatment Among Payloads Flying on Axiom Space’s Third Private Astronaut Mission
By ISS National Laboratory - KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (FL) – More than two dozen investigations sponsored by the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory, many of which focus on the life sciences, will fly on Axiom Space’s third private astronaut mission to...

Gut Bacteria Can Protect Stem Cell Transplant Patients from Harmful Immune Reactions
By Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News After stem cell transplantation, donated immune cells sometimes lead to graft versus host disease (GvHD). Now researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Universitätsklinikum Regensburg (UKR) report...

“Supercharging” CAR T-Cells Could Advance Cancer Treatment
By Technology Networks A bioengineered "supercharged" immune cell has been designed that is particularly efficient at targeting cancer cells. At EPFL's School of Engineering, Professor Li Tang's Laboratory of Biomaterials for Immunoengineering has made significant...

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...