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By Lynn Nicho;ls - Stanford Medicine - From Frequent Transfusions to a Cure for Beta Thalassemia Wade Huynh, age 3, was born with a serious blood disorder, and he needed a stem cell transplant to thrive. Luckily, he didn’t need to look far for a donor match—just...

By Healthcare-in-Europe.com What if doctors could precisely print miniature capsules capable of delivering cells needed for tissue repair exactly where they are needed inside a beating heart? A team of scientists led by Caltech has taken a significant step toward that...

by Max G. Levy, PhD - Drug Discovery News - At the root of anything good or bad in the human immune system is a question about recognition. When the immune system functions correctly, it clocks unrecognized bacteria and viruses. When it misbehaves, immune cells...

by Drug Target Review - Cell and gene therapy (CGT) is advancing rapidly, offering new treatments for complex conditions such as cancer and genetic disorders. As these therapies evolve, the demand for more efficient and reliable methods of cell expansion – an...

By Derek Lowe - Science - Here’s some more good news on the immuno-oncology front. Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is one of those cancer types whose prognosis is in the “A lot better than it used to be, but. . .” category. There are several varieties (with the “classic” form...

By Willow Shah-Neville - LabBioTech - Parkinson’s disease is an extremely complex condition to treat. Although there are medications available that can help relieve symptoms, there are still no approved therapies that slow down the progression of the underlying...

By Robert Sanders - UC Berkley News - In a decision released today (May 12), the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., ordered the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to reconsider its 2022 interference...

by Kerstin Wagner, Leibniz - MedicalXpress.com - Scientists at the Leibniz Institute on Aging—Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have discovered a previously unknown function of immune cells in the bone marrow. Embryonic macrophages—specialized phagocytes of the...

By Nick Paul Taylor - Fierce Biotech - Biotech bank balances were again in focus Monday morning, with Tango Therapeutics cutting preclinical work to stretch its cash runway and Avalo Therapeutics outlining options for preserving its money. Tango extended its cash...

By Jon LaPook - CBS NEWS - Philadelphia — Soon after KJ Muldoon was born in the summer of 2024, he was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder that is fatal for about half the infants who are born with it. Until now, the only effective long-term treatment for the rare...

by The Francis Crick Institute - Phys.Org - Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have developed a new stem cell model of the mature human amniotic sac, which replicates development of the tissues supporting the embryo from two to four weeks after fertilization....

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...

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 Kevin McMahon - Healthspan Action Coalition - Join our hosts, Junaid Mian of 1435 Capital Management and Melissa King from the Healthspan Action Coalition for this edition of Healthspan Compass. In this episode, our hosts aim to establish a foundational...

by University of California Los Angeles - Technology Networks - An investigational gene therapy has successfully restored immune function in all nine children treated with the rare and life-threatening immune disorder called severe leukocyte adhesion deficiency-I, or...

Press Release by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist - May 15, 2025 - Dr. Minni Saluja enrolled in the Translational Biotechnology Master of Science program at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine because she was interested in the role regenerative...

By Rachel Tompa - Stanford Medicine - Research led by Stanford Medicine points to the first non-invasive imaging method to visualize senescent cells, which are alive but dormant and play a key role in many diseases. Anyone who’s had a knee or other joint replacement...

By Evan Bush - NBS News - Jack Castelli had it all figured out. The University of Washington doctoral student had spent the past three years developing new gene-editing techniques that could spur immunity to the virus that causes AIDS. Early testing in mice showed...

By Meagan Raeke - Penn Medicine News - PHILADELPHIA – A next-generation “armored” CAR T cell therapy showed promising results in a small study of patients whose B-cell lymphomas continued to resist multiple rounds of other cancer treatments, including commercially...

by Isabella Backman - Yale School of Medicine - Yale researchers have built a 3D-bioprinted synthetic aorta that they have successfully implanted into rats. This technology could advance the treatment of cardiovascular diseases such as coronary artery disease or...