By Annalee Armstrong - Fierce Biotech Scientists have long known that cancer cells typically have extra chromosomes, but what exactly was the extra genetic material doing? New research from a team at Yale University has finally provided an answer. Humans typically...

By Tessa Koumoundouros - Science Alert In efforts to tackle the leading cause of blindness in developed countries, researchers have recruited nanotechnology to help regrow retinal cells. Macular degeneration is a form of central vision loss, which has massive social,...

By Ticia Hanisch - MD Anderson I was 71 years old when Guillermo Garcia-Manero, M.D., diagnosed me with aggressive, high-risk, acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) that morphed from myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) in October 2018. I was in shock. I felt great, but my...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...