Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology developed a new method to ‘see’ the fine structure and chemical composition of a human cell with unmatched clarity and precision. By Jenna Kurtzweil - University of Illinois Beckman Institute...

By Meredith Wadman - Science New law welcomed by animal welfare groups, but others say change won’t happen fast New medicines need not be tested in animals to receive U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, according to legislation signed by President Joe...

by Press Office - King’s College London - neurosciencenews.com Summary: Results of a phase three clinical trial of a novel brain cancer vaccine, DCVax-L, that uses a patient’s stem cells to target cancer cells extended survival by many months to years for glioblastoma...

By Elaine Fuchs - The Rockefeller University Image Caption: TGF beta signaling (red) is one way that the environment causes cancer stem cells at the stroma-tumor border (green) to become invasive. Living cells are dyed blue. Credit: Shaopeng Yuan What drives tumor...

By Hayden E. Klein and Skylar Jeremias - AJMC Jana K. Dickter, MD, associate clinical professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, City of Hope, discusses a patient's experience being the oldest person to successfully undergo a stem cell transplant while living with...

Reference genomes used to direct the gene editor fail to account for human diversity By Jocelyn Kaiser - Science The 10-year-old gene-editing tool known as CRISPR is indispensable for engineering plants, tailoring lab animals, and probing basic biology. But there’s a...

Toddler Thrives with Same Disease That Ended Siblings’ Lives By University of California San Francisco When Zahid and Sobia Bashir discovered their fetus had the same genetic disease that took the lives of two of their young children, they didn’t hesitate to sign up...

Addresses major gap in effectiveness of immunotherapy Mount Sinai Press Release New York, NY - Mount Sinai and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) researchers have identified therapies that can help patients with the blood cancer multiple myeloma who try an...

By University of California - The Guardian UC San Diego School of Medicine’s Translational Neuroscience Institute made its latest breakthrough in the treatment of spinal cord injuries after the culmination of 30 years of research. In a paper published on Aug. 22, a...

By Joe Dangor - Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn. — Researchers at Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a gene marker that may lead to a more effective, precision treatment for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). The researcher’s findings are...

By Heidi Ledford - Nature ‘Most complicated therapy ever’ tailors bespoke, genome-edited immune cells to attack tumours. A small clinical trial has shown that researchers can use CRISPR gene editing to alter immune cells so that they will recognize mutated proteins...

By Susan Murphy - Mayo Clinic Chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy (CAR-T cell therapy) — a type of immunotherapy that reprograms a patient's T cells to recognize and destroy cancer cells — has revolutionized the treatment of blood cancers. While the technique has...