Ben Andrew Henry - The Scientist - While studying a rare genetic disease, researchers discovered a signaling pathway linked to the efficiency of reprogramming somatic cells into stem cells. Thanks to a chance discovery, researchers have found a more efficient way to...

By Joseph Keenan - Fierce Pharma - Robotics specialist Multiply Labs and Thermo Fisher Scientific inked a deal to expand their partnership to further automate the cell therapy production process. The two companies will integrate Multiply Lab's robotic technology and...

By Tu Wien News A new approach to producing artificial tissue has been developed at TU Wien: Cells are grown in microstructures created in a 3D printer. Is it possible to grow tissue in the laboratory, for example to replace injured cartilage? At TU Wien (Vienna), an...

By Andrea Park -Fierce Biotech - For the first time since it launched in 2020 and began accepting submissions in 2022, a program started by the FDA to provide support for unconventional drug development tools has accepted its first artificial intelligence-powered...

by Technology Networks - Biopharma News - Initial trial suggests invariant natural killer cell therapy improves survival. Promising trial results indicate that a new type of cell therapy could improve the prognosis of those who are critically ill with acute...

By Dr Naomi Phillips - Progress.org - Viral genetic material, integrated into our DNA millions of years ago, has an essential role in a key early stage in embryo development. Using a mouse model, scientists in Spain have shown that endogenous retroviruses, part of the...

By Kyle LaHucik - Endpoints News Neurona Therapeutics has gathered $120 million in what is expected to be its last private financing round to wrap up an open-label study this year and move its epilepsy cell therapy into a randomized Phase II in 2025, CEO and...

by Marni Ellery - Berkley Engineering - Nobel laureate details new applications at Kuh Distinguished Lecture. Jennifer Doudna, Nobel laureate and Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Chair and Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology, presented...

By Edvard Pettersson - Courthouse News Service - The FDA asked the Ninth Circuit to follow their colleagues on the 11th Circuit and find that novel stem cell procedures are not exempt from the agency's oversight. PASADENA, Calif. (CN) — The U.S. Food and Drug...

By Dr. Gracelyn Santos - SILive.com Binghamton sophomore and Staten Islander, Hayley Bond, 19, recently traveled to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to donate her stem cells, after being informed she was a match for a leukemia patient, in desperate need of a bone marrow...

By Penn Medicine News - Penn Today - The development of any type of second cancer following CAR T cell therapy is a rare occurrence, as found in an analysis of more than 400 patients treated at Penn Medicine, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine report in...

By Matt Wood - University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division - A new study by physicists and neuroscientists from the University of Chicago, Harvard and Yale describes how connectivity among neurons comes about through general principles of networking and...