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Research on ISS to Determine If Stem Cell Production in Space Can Improve Cancer Treatments on Earth
By inside Precision Medicine Just after 8:30 ET on Tuesday night a Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched carrying 20 payloads of a diverse set of research projects to determine the benefits of working in microgravity....
Cell therapy: New way to tame killer T cells
By Dr. Prajakta Banik - Tech Explorist Cell therapy, a promising approach to treating various diseases, involves harnessing the power of a patient’s immune cells to target and destroy specific harmful cells, such as cancerous ones. However, a significant challenge in...
OrganoidChip facilitates hydrogel-free immobilization for fast and blur-free imaging of organoids
by Nature Organoids are three-dimensional structures of self-assembled cell aggregates that mimic anatomical features of in vivo organs and can serve as in vitro miniaturized organ models for drug testing. The most efficient way of studying drug toxicity and efficacy...
A Surprising New Cell of Origin for Lung Cancer
by John Knox - Stanford Medicine News If you can imagine the entire population of Fresno, California wiped out, then you can understand what it means to say that more than half a million people will die in the U.S this year from lung cancer. It’s the leading cause of...
UC San Diego Health among First in Nation to Perform Regenerative Brain Cell Procedure for Epilepsy
The new experimental cell therapy is part of a national clinical trial aimed at eliminating seizures By Annie Pierce - UC San Diego Today In what could lead to a revolutionary advancement in the treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy, UC San Diego Health has become one...
Pioneering Stem Cell Therapy Offers New Hope for Epilepsy Treatment
By Neuroscience.com Researchers embarked on a groundbreaking clinical trial involving the injection of regenerative cells into the brain to treat epileptic seizures. This experimental therapy, called NRTX-1001, has the potential to offer drug-resistant temporal lobe...
Gene therapy eyedrops restored a boy’s sight. Similar treatments could help millions
by LAURA UNGAR and FREIDA FRISARO - MedicalXpress Dr. Alfonso Sabater pulled up two photos of Antonio Vento Carvajal's eyes. One showed cloudy scars covering both eyeballs. The other, taken after months of gene therapy given through eyedrops, revealed no scarring on...
AI is transforming every aspect of science. Here’s how.
By Saikiran Chandha - Live Science In the future, research labs will embrace the transformative potential of artificial intelligence to tackle wicked problems and speed up scientific discovery. Scientific laboratories of the future probably won't have flying robots,...
Scientists find the key to potentially reversing Parkinson’s disease
by David McManus - Disability Support Guide A new breakthrough in Parkinson’s disease research has moved scientists one step closer to a significant treatment. Researchers were able to yield significant results through transplanting the skin cells of two people with...
Cell and gene therapy is coming of age
By Center for Breakthrough Medicine - BIOPHARMADIVE The enormous impact the pandemic had on the biopharma industry is unmistakable, as evidenced by the unprecedented investments that took place in the cell and gene therapy (CGT) space. In January 2022, the Milken...
Grow-your-own stem cells may repair Parkinson’s damage
By Bronwyn Thompson - New Atlas A new stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease is one step closer to human trials after scientists were able to successfully rebuild neural damage in an animal model. Researchers from Scripps Research and Cardiff University used...
Researchers turn to CRISPR to unlock one of the trickiest diseases to treat: Alzheimer’s
By Andrew Joseph - Stat News When the genome-editing tool CRISPR is thought of as a potential medicine, the targets that first come to mind are diseases like sickle cell or other conditions caused by particular mutations. Use CRISPR to fix that mutation, the idea...