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By Tia Ghose - Live Science - It's a running joke that a cure for type 1 diabetes is only five years away and has been for 50 years, but new stem cell trials and immune drugs hint that we're closer than ever to a functional cure for the disease. My first clue that...

By Sarah Pelta - Stanford Medicine - Could the gut microbiome hold the key to better cancer treatment outcomes? “We send your T cells to boot camp.” That is how hematologist-oncologist and Stanford Cancer Institute member Melody Smith, MD, describes CAR-T cell therapy...

By Abby Woodruff - US department of Veteran Affairs -- VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System’s stem cell processing laboratory has achieved accreditation from the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT), an internationally recognized mark of...

By Case Western Reserve University - SciTechDaily - A new study raises important questions about widely used NAD+ supplements, suggesting that compounds often taken to boost energy and support healthy aging may have unintended consequences in cancer treatment....

by MacKenzie White, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research - Phys.Org - Stem cells are the body's ultimate shape-shifters, sustaining tissues by balancing two competing demands: maintaining their own population and generating specialized descendants. In many...

By La Trobe University - SciTechDaily - Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown feature of cell death that reshapes how the immune system identifies and clears dying cells. Scientists at La Trobe University have identified a previously unknown way viruses may...

By University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health - A first-of-its-kind clinical trial at the Program for Advanced Cell Therapy will examine a new method to manage kidney rejection following transplant. The Program for Advanced Cell Therapy, or PACT, a...

By Tristan Manalac - BIoSpace - The recent uptick in IPOs is an encouraging signal after a drought for much of 2025. Experts point to AI as a driving force behind this resurgence. After hitting a historic low in 2025—only eight biotechs went public, as per a BioSpace...

By The Japan Times - A series of fatal accidents and regulatory violations involving regenerative treatments not covered by insurance have occurred in Japan, prompting health authorities to review related systems. Regenerative medicine, which uses cells or genes to...

By Université de Genève - Science Daily - Scientists have created a programmable drug system that can zero in on cancer cells with unprecedented accuracy. Built from synthetic DNA, it only activates when it detects a precise combination of tumor markers, preventing...

By Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News - Modern medicine has achieved extraordinary success in treating acute disease. Yet when it comes to chronic degenerative conditions, the diseases that dominate healthcare spending and disability in aging populations, our...

by Anne Trafton | MIT News - The cells can survive in the body for at least three months, producing enough insulin to control blood sugar levels, research shows. Most diabetes patients must carefully monitor their blood sugar levels and inject insulin multiple times...

by Alisha Willett, Purdue University - PHYS.ORG - In back-to-back studies published in Nature, researchers from Purdue University and Columbia University report a naturally evolved gene-editing system that can activate genes, offering an advantage over existing CRISPR...

By Tiare Dunlap - UCLA Health - A team of researchers led by UCLA’s Dr. Daniel Geschwind has received a $13.9 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to use human stem cell-based models to uncover the molecular and cellular mechanisms...

by Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center - MedicalXPress - Results of a Phase I clinical trial show that patients who undergo a blood stem cell transplant involving a donor have a lower risk of relapse and lower rates of graft-versus-host disease when they receive...

By Blake Brittain - Reuters News - March 27 (Reuters) - A U.S. Patent Office tribunal has ruled against Nobel Prize-winning scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for a second time in their dispute with ​the Broad Institute, a joint venture of Harvard...

By CNBC NEWS - A federal judge on Monday blocked key parts of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s effort to reshape U.S. vaccine policy, including a move to reduce the number of shots routinely ​recommended for children. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston...

By Washington University in St. Louis - Science Daily - Scientists have discovered that cells can sense far beyond the surfaces they touch. While individual cancer cells can probe about 10 microns ahead by tugging on surrounding collagen fibers, clusters of normal...

By Drug Target Review - A new RNA-based therapy developed at Columbia University could help the heart repair itself after a heart attack without invasive surgery. After a heart attack, it is possible for cardiologists to reopen blocked vessels and restart blood flow...

By Ritsuko Kawa - Wired - Researchers in Japan pioneered reprogrammed cells 20 years ago. Now the country has given the first-ever authorizations to manufacture and sell medical products based on the technology. On March 6, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and...