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Inflammation turns bone marrow into a breeding ground for disease
By Science Daily - Inflammation covertly rewires the bone marrow, enabling mutated stem cells to rise and setting the stage for future blood disease. Researchers discovered that chronic inflammation fundamentally remodels the bone marrow, allowing mutated stem cell...
Bone Marrow Model Created Entirely from Human Cells
By Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News - Typically, bone marrow research relies heavily on animal models and oversimplified cell cultures in the laboratory. Now, researchers from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel and University Hospital...
Scientists see foam as starting point of a path to bedside gene therapy
By Sabrina Richards - Fred Hutch Cancer Center - Bioengineer Dr. Matthias Stephan developed a quick-foaming solution that he hopes could one day turn gene therapy into an outpatient procedure The special properties of methylcellulose foam could make it a vehicle for...
Japanese Researchers Develop Method to Repair Spinal Fractures Using Fat-Derived Stem Cells
by GOAI -Gene Online - Japanese researchers are exploring a novel, minimally invasive method to repair spinal fractures using body fat-derived cells. The experimental approach involves converting fat cells into bone tissue, offering a potential alternative to...
Technical University of Munich transforms stem cells into bone cells
By Optics.org - A project at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has successfully stimulated stem cells in a manner that reliably induced them to develop into bone cells. The technology could ultimately lead to ways to generate specific cells for biomedical...
SwRI-developed single-use 3D-printed bioreactor harvests induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
By Medical Life Sciences News - Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has demonstrated a new application for its cell-expansion bioreactor to advance tissue engineering and cell-based therapies for treatment of injuries and diseases. SwRI scientists used the bioreactor...
What will be born of the marriage of de-extinction firm Colossal and animal cloning biotech Viagen?
By Paul Knoepfler - STAT - The company that claimed to revive the dire wolf continues to raise ethical questions De-extinction firm Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday that it was acquiring animal cloning firm Viagen. The same day, retired NFL all-star Tom Brady...
Behind the FDA’s Elimination of REMS Program for CAR T-Cell Therapies
By Jonah Feldman, Frederick Locke, MD - Targeted Oncology - On June 26, 2025, the FDA announced the elimination of the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) program that applied to 6 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies approved to treat patients...
Scientists discover how hair cells can help heal skin faster
By Rockefeller University - ScienceDaily Scientists found that low serine levels spark a shift in hair stem cells, transforming them into wound-healing experts — with diet playing a possible role. Rockefeller scientists uncovered how hair follicle stem cells can...
Engineered Bone Marrow Model Advances CRISPR-CAR T Research in AML
By Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News - Scientists at the University of Glasgow developed a bioengineered bone marrow (BM) model that helped them to evaluate potential use of a combined CRISPR-CAR T cell therapy in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia. The...
Stem Cells Prevent Heart Failure After Heart Attack
By American Medical Journal - A NEW phase 3 clinical trial has revealed that stem cells can help prevent heart failure in patients recovering from acute myocardial infarction. The study found that intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells significantly reduced...
We need to start thinking of AI as “normal”
By James O'Donnell - MIT Technology Review - As technologists frame AI as either utopian or dystopian, two researchers offer a third option. Right now, despite its ubiquity, AI is seen as anything but a normal technology. There is talk of AI systems that will soon...