By Antonio Pequeño IV - Forbes - Yeztugo, a twice-a-year antiviral shot to prevent HIV, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, marking a major advance in battling AIDS. Key Facts The drug (which has the generic name lenacapavir) will become...

by Harvard University - Microglia are a specialized type of immune cell that accounts for about 10% of all cells within the brain and spinal cord. They function by eliminating infectious microbes, dead cells, and aggregated proteins, as well as soluble antigens that...

By Mass General Brigham - Marcela Maus, MD, PhD, director of the Cellular Immunotherapy Program and the Paula J. O'Keeffe Endowed Chair of the Mass General Cancer Center, is senior author and Stefanie Bailey, PhD, Hana Takei, and Giulia Escobar, PhD of the Krantz...

by Kermit Pattison - The Harvard Gazette - Decades later, Doug Melton and team are testing treatment that could make insulin shots obsolete. Doug Melton’s life irrevocably changed the day his child was diagnosed with a life-threatening disease. But unlike most other...

By Vijay Kumar Malesu - Medical life Sciences News - In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers in the United States explored how cytochrome P450 family 26 subfamily B member 1 (CYP26B1)-mediated retinoic acid (RA) breakdown...

By The Associated Press - PORTLAND, Ore. — Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia on Monday filed a lawsuit in bankruptcy court seeking to block the sale of personal genetic data by 23andMe without customer consent. The lawsuit comes as a biotechnology...

By Natalie Healey - Nature Medicine - Landmark trials using stem cells to treat Parkinson’s disease in the USA and Japan mark a turning point for cell therapy in neurodegeneration. Similar approaches to Alzheimer’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis are also...

By Fondazione Telethon - SciTechDaily - Researchers have identified an early postnatal window that allows gene transfer to circulating blood stem cells, advancing the development of potential treatments for genetic disorders. A team of scientists from the San...

by Sarah Williams, Stanford University - MedicalXpress - Whether you are a competitive athlete or an older adult, strong bones are essential—not only for movement, but also for overall health. Now, a new study has shed new light on how our bones are maintained and...

By Meghana Keshavan - Stat News - From my colleague Jason Mast: KJ Muldoon, the first infant treated with a personalized gene-editing drug, has been discharged from the hospital for the first time in his life, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia announced Tuesday....

By Paul McClure - News Atlas - In a new study, researchers identified a molecule produced by a particular type of brain cell that reversed the cognitive decline seen in both healthy aging and dementia. It provides a deeper understanding of the aging process and a...

By Tiffany Yesavag - Genetic Bioengineering & Biotechnology News - Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is an innovative cancer treatment that engineers a patient’s own T cells to target and destroy cancer cells. While the field has sparked significant...