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Cell and Gene Therapy Sector Sees 30% Investment Surge Despite Market Challenges
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...
The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired Yesterday
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...
HHS layoffs hit Meals on Wheels and other services for seniors and disabled
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...
Paralysed man stands again after receiving ‘reprogrammed’ stem cells
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...
A new kind of stem cell is revolutionizing regenerative medicine
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...
Treating spinal cord injuries with stem cells
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...
New CRISPR tool enables more seamless gene editing — and improved disease modeling
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...
Building a regenerative medicine industry: Lessons from North Carolina
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,...
Healthspan Action Coalition and Kitalys Institute Propose Landmark Legislation to Promote Healthy Longevity
“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...
Probing the Mysteries of the Aging Brain
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...
Cells That Build Themselves Into an Embryo? Scientists Just Made It Happen
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...
Will Stem Cell Clinics Flourish Under RFK Jr.?
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...