by admin | Mar 19, 2026 | News & Opinions
By Stanford Medicine News – Stanford Medicine scientists are launching a clinical trial of prenatal transplants, using stem cells from the mother, to treat a rare genetic disease called Fanconi anemia before a baby is born. Stanford Medicine pediatric...
by admin | Mar 18, 2026 | News & Opinions
By Darren Orf – Popular Mechanics – Scientists trained a brain organoid to solve a well-known engineering task, and its success demonstrates the increasing complexity of lab-grown brains. While creating organs sounds like sci-fi fodder, scientists have...
by admin | Mar 17, 2026 | News & Opinions
by James Felton – IFLScience – Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks, which alleged that the company unfairly profited from her “immortal” cell line, taken without her knowledge or consent...
by admin | Mar 16, 2026 | News & Opinions
By Elizabeth Dougherty – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute – In the early 1970s, the field of genetics was confined to the study of bacteria and viruses. Conventional wisdom at the time was that the tools of molecular biology couldn’t be used to study...
by admin | Mar 13, 2026 | News & Opinions
By Erin Baily – UC Davis Health – For Hai Trinh, his disease started gradually. Fatigue. Bruising easily. He thought little of it. As a mechanic, husband and father of two girls, he just kept pushing forward, attributing the persistent health challenges to...
