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By: Nicole Sweeney Etter - Penn Medicine News - For more than a decade, Penn Medicine clinical research nurse Joanne Shea, MS, BSN, RN, has had a front-row seat to the groundbreaking research underway in the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies. As Abramson Cancer...

By Neuroscience News - Researchers have identified a unique stem cell in the young brain capable of maturing into multiple cell types, potentially explaining the origins of autism and glioblastoma. These stem cells show gene expression patterns that regulate early...

By Gabrielle Masson - Fierce Biotech - Bayer’s Parkinson’s disease cell therapy is moving into late-stage testing, with the upcoming trial set to be the first registrational phase 3 study for an investigational allogeneic cell therapy in the neurodegenerative disease....

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 Wright Seneres - Princeton Engineering - For decades, scientists have puzzled over how a symmetrical ball of cells becomes an embryo, with the beginnings of a head and tail. Now Princeton engineers have discovered that this transformation from perfect symmetry to...

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 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 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 Storm Newton - BBC - A man has given his stem cells twice in the space of a decade to help save the lives of two people. Brad Green, from Sheffield, was inspired to sign the Anthony Nolan stem cell register at the age of 20 after a school friend's dad was diagnosed...

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 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 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 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 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 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 <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54653-9">Nature Communications</a> - The need for basement membrane extract (BME) with undefined constituents, such as Matrigel, for intestinal stem cell (ISC) culture in traditional systems poses a...

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...

By Scott Reading - University of Michigan Medicine - A cell therapy clinician talks about the treatment and its promising future to treat other diseases, too Advancements in using a person’s own cells to treat disease have been growing for years. These include...

by Rachel Lukowicz-Bedford, University of Oregon - MedicalXpress - Tiny implantable sensors are helping University of Oregon researchers optimize the process of recovery from severe bone injuries. Scientists at the UO's Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating...

By Susan Buckles - Mayo Clinic - Rochester, Minn. — People around the globe are living longer — but not necessarily healthier — lives, according to Mayo Clinic research. A study of 183 World Health Organization (WHO) member countries found those additional years of...