By: Charlotte Schubert, Ph.D. - University of Miami Miller School of Medicine - Blood cancer patients who may have previously struggled to find a donor for transplantation now have more options. A new study shows that patients achieve good outcomes with an partial...

By Van Andel Institute - Grand Rapids, MI - Van Andel Institute scientists and collaborators have discovered a potential treatment target that may re-energize dysfunctional or “exhausted” immune cells in their fight against cancer. The target is an immune checkpoint...

By Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News - By flipping an evolutionarily disabled genetic switch involved in vitamin A metabolism, researchers headed by a team at the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, have enabled ear tissue regeneration in...

by Molly Coddington - Technology Networks - CRISPR gene therapy is changing the future of rare genetic disorder treatments. In May, news broke that a 10-month-old baby, KJ Muldoon, was doing well after receiving 3 doses of the world’s first personalized CRISPR...

By Nick Paul Taylor - Fierce Biotech - The FDA has stopped new clinical trials that export American citizens’ living cells from the U.S. to “China and other hostile countries for genetic engineering and subsequent infusion” back into American patients. Officials said...

By Alex (Guangyao) Xu - The Japan Times - In a quiet operating room on Kyoto University’s medical campus, a team of researchers slipped a syringe of lab-grown neurons into the brain of a living person. Leading the trial was Jun Takahashi, a neurosurgeon with the kind...

By Christina Elston - Cedars Sinai - Cedars-Sinai’s Lifelike Laboratory Model Is a New Way for Investigators to Study Motor Neurons That Die in Patients With the Neurodegenerative Illness Using stem cells from patients with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis),...

by Marisa Wexler - Multiple Sclerosis News Today - A CAR T-cell therapy from Iaso Biotherapeutics was tolerated well and led to marked improvements in disability for three people with progressive forms of multiple sclerosis (MS), according to early data from a Phase 1...

By Eleanor Garth - Longevity.Technology - Leopoldina issues policy paper urging integration of geroscience into national healthcare and research infrastructure. Germany’s National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has published a detailed policy paper calling for a...

By Gina Kolata - New York Times - Most in a small group of patients receiving a stem cell-based infusion no longer needed insulin, but the drug may not suit those with more manageable type 1 diabetes. A single infusion of a stem cell-based treatment may have cured 10...

By Stanford Report - Stanford researchers have developed a faster, more precise way to model and print vascular systems, solving a critical challenge in fabricating transplantable organs from patients’ own cells. There are more than 100,000 people on organ transplant...

By Sant Pau Research Institute - SciTechDaily - A new antibody treatment prevents cholesterol buildup in heart mitochondria and restores energy production, offering hope for future heart disease therapies. An international team of researchers has uncovered how...