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by Imma Perfetto - Cosmos - An Australian researcher has been awarded $60,000 to build more complex models of the human lung, with the hope to discover new therapies for respiratory diseases. Dr Rhiannon Werder, team leader at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute...

By By Jordana Lenon - University of Wisconsin-Madison - Heart muscle cells grown from stem cells show promise in monkeys with a heart problem that typically results from a heart defect sometimes present at birth in humans, according to new research from the University...

By Texas A&M College of Medicine News - A new therapy may delay Alzheimer’s disease progression by years, according to a study by researchers at Texas A&M University College of Medicine. Published in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, the research aims to...

Arun Sharma, PhD By Cedars Sinai News - Cedars-Sinai investigators are one step closer to manufacturing stem cells in space, which could speed up the development of new medical therapies on Earth. The first published data from the experiments conducted on a private...

By Healio News - Top-line results of a phase 2 clinical trial for an adipose-derived autologous mesenchymal stem cell therapy to address mild to moderate relapsing-remitting MS found the treatment improved mental and physical health at 52 weeks. According to a press...

By UNH Manchester - The University of New Hampshire at Manchester has been awarded $10 million to lead workforce development efforts within the ReGen Valley Tech Hub, an initiative aimed at establishing Southern New Hampshire as a global leader in biofabrication....

By Inside Precision Medicine - U.S. researchers have shone further light into the precise way that CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing actually works and circumvents unintended off-target effects, which could lead to more accurate cellular therapies. The preclinical research,...

by Mrigakshi Dixit - Interesting Engineering - Think of a future where injuries heal faster, diseases are cured more effectively, and lab-grown meat is a reality. This future is one step closer, thanks to the innovative work of Dr. Hao Liu from ETH Zurich. Liu uses...

by Andrew Saintsing, PhD - Drug Discovery News - When the world ground to a halt in 2020, news outlets regularly featured stories about how COVID-19 wreaked havoc on patients’ lungs. In millions of cases, an initial cough developed into full-blown pneumonia, which...

By Ani Vahradyan - UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center - Scientists at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have developed a first-of-its-kind experimental therapy that has the potential to enhance heart repair...

By Smriti Mallapaty - Nature - Ever since the first blood-forming stem cells were successfully transplanted into people with blood cancers more than 50 years ago, researchers have wondered whether they developed cancer-causing mutations. A unique study1 on the...

by Pennsylvania State University - MedicalXpress - Immunotherapies that mobilize a patient's own immune system to fight cancer have become a treatment pillar. These therapies, including CAR T-cell therapy, have performed well in cancers like leukemias and lymphomas,...

By BMC - Military Medical Research - Severe tissue defects present formidable challenges to human health, persisting as major contributors to mortality rates. The complex pathological microenvironment, particularly the disrupted immune landscape within these defects,...

By Gina Kolata - New York Times - After 44 days, Kendric Cromer, 12, left the hospital. While his family feels fortunate that he was the first to receive a treatment, their difficult experiences hint at what others will be up against. Kendric Cromer, 12, left...

by Duke-NUS Medical School - MedicalXpress - An international team of neuroscientists, led by Duke-NUS Medical School, have uncovered a mechanism that controls the reactivation of neural stem cells, which are crucial for repairing and regenerating brain cells. The...

by Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute - MedicalXpress - For the first time, researchers have created a single cell atlas of prenatal human skin to understand how skin forms, and what goes wrong in disease. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Newcastle...

By - Nature - Despite treatment advances, multiple myeloma (MM) remains incurable1. High-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) is considered the standard treatment for eligible patients2,3. Moreover, ASCT is reportedly effective and...

By A Donlan - Fred Hutch Cancer Center - During the COVID-19 pandemic, it quickly became clear that certain populations were particularly at risk for severe disease. Individuals undergoing hematopoietic cell transplants (HCT) or chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CART)...

By Danielle H. Cho - Daily Bruin - UCLA researchers have found a gene that may have implications for treating blood-related genetic diseases and cancers. All types of blood cells come from blood stem cells, said Júlia Aguadé-Gorgorió, the first author of the paper...

By Christiana Care News - In a potential advance for melanoma patients, researchers at ChristianaCare’s Gene Editing Institute have used CRISPR gene editing tools to disable a gene mutation often seen in aggressive forms of this dangerous skin cancer that renders...