by Greta Friar - Link to Full Article with Video Imagine a ball thrown in the air: it curves up, then down, tracing an arc to a point on the ground some distance away. The path of the ball can be described with a simple mathematical equation, and if you know the...

By Angus Chen - Link to Article In 2010, Doug Olson became the second person in the world to receive CAR-T cell therapy, an experimental tactic to engineer his own immune cells to fight cancer. His doctors had tempered expectations for how well it would fight off...

By Andrew Briskin - Link to Article In a collaboration between ViaCyte and CRISPR Therapeutics, a new clinical trial is investigating a cell therapy that may eventually help millions with type 1 diabetes. Researchers have long sought a cell-based “cure” for type 1...

Genetically modified cancer-fighting cells are now developed on campus as part of a new cellular therapy program (SACRAMENTO) Alan Gaines did two tours in the Vietnam War as a Navy fighter pilot—so being brave isn’t new to him. At 77, he was diagnosed with an...

HOUSTON - (link to article) - A huge advancement in treating heart disease could be on the horizon. Researchers at the Texas Heart Institute are studying a high-tech way to use stem cells to spare lives and protect patients from the #1 killer. Your heart is a powerful...

By Dr. Tomislav Meštrović, MD, Ph.D. - Dec 13 2021 - News-Medical.net (link to article) A recent review in the journal Life provided a detailed description of CRISPR-Cas-based diagnostic techniques to identify severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2...

January 20, 2022 – Washington, D.C. (link to article) – A new national poll of registered voters in the United States shows that the majority of respondents would utilize pharmaceutical intervention to target aspects of aging if the drugs or therapies were safe,...

NIAID Scientists Developed Vaccine Platform Image Caption: Scanning electromicrograph of an HIV-infected H9 T cell. Credit: NIAID December 9, 2021 - An experimental HIV vaccine based on mRNA—the same platform technology used in two highly effective COVID-19...

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. - Dec 16 2021 - News-Medical.net (link to article) The research group Immunology of Fungal Infections at the University of Valencia (UV) has investigated a fungal vaccine with which to train stem cells and hematopoietic progenitors...

Image caption: Human stem cells can be used to create models called blastoids (one shown that has been chemically altered to fluoresce) for studying how early-stage embryos implant into the lining of the uterus. Models of early-stage embryos could be used to research...

By Susan Buckles MayoClinic.com (link to article) Mayo Clinic has discovered how to microencapsulate pluripotent stem cells to potentially make them easier and less expensive to process and more effective for fighting disease. This research by Alexander Revzin, Ph.D.,...

By Alexandra Beckstett, The Horse Managing Editor, TheHorse.com (link to article) Indications for their use and how veterinarians choose between the two therapies. In recent years, there’s been tremendous interest in using regenerative therapies (or, more accurately,...