by admin | Aug 29, 2023 | News & Opinions
by William A. Haseltine – Forbes At present, the only way to cure genetic blood disorders such as sickle cell anemia and thalassemia is to reset the immune system with a stem cell transplantation. Only a fraction of patients elects this procedure, as the process...
by admin | Aug 28, 2023 | News & Opinions
By Elizabeth Pennisi – Science When Vicki Losick got her Ph.D. and joined a fruit fly lab at the Carnegie Institution for Science in 2008, its head announced that he expected his postdocs to launch new fields of inquiry. She chose a then-fashionable focus: stem...
by admin | Aug 25, 2023 | News & Opinions
Researchers and policymakers often exist in different worlds and speak different languages. Here are three ways to bridge the divide. by Nature.com Science is a key driver of economic growth and social progress. If science can be accelerated — such as by increasing...
by admin | Aug 24, 2023 | News & Opinions
By Theresa Tamkins, Jessica Klingbaum and Kristen Dahlgren – NBC News Eye surgeons in the U.S. are inching closer to being able to use a specific type of stem cell transplant to fix a serious eye problem that can cause pain and permanent vision loss. It was the...
by admin | Aug 23, 2023 | News & Opinions
by Frances Crick Institute Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, working with technology company Faculty AI, have shown that machine learning can accurately predict subtypes of Parkinson’s disease using images of...
