By Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News Results of a largescale collaborative project led by scientists at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, and the University of California, Irvine (UCI), were published in the journal Neuron this week “Large-scale...

By Paul Hanaphy - 3d Printing Industry Researchers at the USA’s National Eye Institute (NEI) have developed a way of 3D bioprinting eye tissues using patient stem cells. Using their approach, in which three different types of immature choroidal cells are printed onto...

Engineered organs could put an end to transplant waiting lists By Antonio Regalado - MIT Technology Review WHO eGenesis, Makana Therapeutics, United Therapeutics WHEN 10 to 15 years For two months last year, a 57-year-old man named David Bennett lived with a pig heart...

By Laura Red Eagle - University of Wisconsin News Gene therapies have the potential to treat neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, but they face a common barrier — the blood-brain barrier. Now, researchers at the University of...

by University of California Irvine - Technology Networks Combating Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases by inserting healthy new immune cells into the brain has taken a leap toward reality. Neuroscientists at the University of California, Irvine and the...

By Kristin Houser - Freethink It could lead to new cancer treatments, better diagnostics tests, and more. his article is an installment of Future Explored, a weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories like this one straight to your inbox every...

WINSTON-SALEM, NC, February, 2023 -- The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) and the Regenerative Medicine Foundation (RMF) have announced that the 20th edition of the World Stem Cell Summit will be held in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in...

By Adam Felts | MIT News Students, researchers, and actors don AGNES for a taste of the friction, frustration, and fatigue that older adults often experience. Visitors to MIT’s AgeLab in the Center for Transportation and Logistics are greeted silently by a shiny...

by Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins researchers develop injectable hydrogel composite that promotes regenerative healing in an animal model of Crohn’s perianal fistulas In a new study using a rat model of Crohn’s disease, a biodegradable hydrogel composite...

By Esteban Cortez - The Stem Cellar The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is investing $4 million in a late-stage preclinical project by Ryne Bio aiming to improve treatment for Idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (PD). PD is characterized by a loss of...

By Susan Buckles - Mayo Clinic Mayo Clinic is using 3D printing as a new option to heal the larynx after cancer or traumatic injury. David Lott, M.D., a Mayo Clinic otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon, is an expert who can speak about a pioneering procedure...

By Rob Stein - NPR News Katie Pope Kopp went through round after round of chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant to treat her non-Hodgkin lymphoma. But nothing could beat it. "I went back to get a PET scan in May of 2020, and that's when they found that my...