By Asaf Levon - Haaretz News - Can damaged parts of the spinal cord be replaced with functional nerve tissues? Matricelf aims to make this vision a reality with groundbreaking technology. In the company's laboratories in Nes Ziona, a team of about ten experts in...

By Francis Collins for Wired - Treatments for rare diseases are hard to create and expensive to deliver, but there is new hope for editing the software of the genome. Sam Berns was my friend. With the wisdom of a sage, he inspired me and many others about how to make...

By Jiji - The japan Times - Kyoto –  Following its success in automating the process of creating induced pluripotent stem cells, Kyoto University's CiRA Foundation will start producing iPS cells from patients' own cells utilizing the automated culture system in April....

By By Rhiannon Williams - MIT Technology Review - Stem-cell therapies that work: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025 A quarter-century ago, researchers isolated powerful stem cells from embryos created through in vitro fertilization. These cells, theoretically able to...

By Mayo Clinic - ROCHESTER, Minn. — At Mayo Clinic, researchers published more than 10,000 scientific papers in 2024 that are driving medical discoveries, leading to new cures for the future. The following are 10 research highlights from Mayo Clinic this year: Growing...

By Dalia Faheid and Maria Sole Campinoti - CNN News - When Allie Reimold boarded Flight 2223 in Houston a week ago, she didn’t expect to see him. It had been four years since they’d last visited in person. And eight years, almost exactly, since the budding scientist –...

By Karen Blum - Specialty Pharmacy Continuum - An increase in rare/ultra-orphan treatments, along with a boom in cell and gene therapies and ambulatory infusion centers, are among developments to prepare for in the increasingly competitive specialty pharmacy market....

By Aaron Sanderford - Eastern Progress - LINCOLN — Beef may not only be “what’s for dinner,” but may help slow the aging of our brains. That’s what researchers at the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln seek in what’s described...

By Karoline Kan - Bloomberg - Have you ever imagined seeing human tissues and organs created by lab machines, within seconds? That may soon become reality — and not just a scene from science fiction. Read on... Click here to read the full article

by University of North Carolina at Charlotte - Phys.org - Major findings on the inner workings of a brittle star's ability to reversibly control the pliability of its tissues will help researchers solve the puzzle of mutable collagenous tissue (MCT) and potentially...

by Penn Medicine News - Lab-grown tumors respond to cell therapy the same as tumors in the patients’ brains, according to Penn researchers PHILADELPHIA— For the first time, researchers used lab-grown organoids created from tumors of individuals with glioblastoma (GBM)...

By University of Utah Health - A new gene therapy can reverse the effects of heart failure and restore heart function in a large animal model. The therapy increases the amount of blood the heart can pump and dramatically improves survival, in what a paper describing...