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By Christina Elston - Cedars Sinai - Peggy Whitson, America’s Most Experienced Astronaut, Discusses the Next Generation of Off-Planet Science With Cedars-Sinai Space Medicine Research Expert Astronaut Peggy Whitson, PhD, has spent more time in space than any astronaut...

By Esra Öz - NewScientist - Immune cells are most commonly engineered to kill cancers, but now, scientists have shown the technique makes the gut lining of older mice resemble that of younger mice, raising hopes that the same approach could work in people As we age,...

By American Parkinson's Association - Two new therapies are entering the final stages of clinical trials before potential FDA approval. One is a novel dopamine-based therapy for motor symptom management, and the other is a stem cell therapy poised to replace the lost...

By Fidji Simo - Healthcare isn’t working for patients or doctors, but AI tools can help. At this time last year, I was hospitalized for a kidney stone and developed an infection. The resident in charge took a quick look at my chart and prescribed the usual antibiotic...

by Gaby Clark - MedicalXpress - A new study by Canadian and U.S. researchers is shedding light on how the social media platform TikTok can be used to recruit young stem cell donors. For the study, researchers shared an array of TikTok videos, all of which encouraged...

By Mental Health - Every year, millions of lives are suddenly, swiftly transformed by a stroke, which occurs when a blood vessel travelling towards the brain becomes obstructed, causing neurons to die off. Strokes are among the leading causes of disability in adults,...

By University of British Columbia - For the first time, researchers at UBC have demonstrated how to reliably produce an important type of human immune cell — known as helper T cells — from stem cells in a controlled laboratory setting. The findings, published today in...

By Bruce Goldman - Stanford Medicine - Stanford Medicine investigators have unearthed the biological process by which mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 can cause heart damage in some young men and adolescents — and they’ve shown a possible route to reducing its...

by University of New South Wales - Science Daily - A new CRISPR breakthrough shows scientists can turn genes back on without cutting DNA, by removing chemical tags that act like molecular anchors. The work confirms these tags actively silence genes, settling a...

by Charles Bankhead - MedPageToday - Long-term survival in the CARTITUDE-1 trial showed that almost half of patients remained, alive with a median overall survival (OS) of 60.7 months. Almost three-fourths of the survivors remained progression free, and more than a...

By Julie Grisham - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center - When it comes to giving immunotherapy to people with the most common form of lymphoma, the time of day may make a difference, according to new research from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)....

By Chinese Academy of Sciences - SciTechDaily - A new method for engineering natural killer cells could make cancer immunotherapy more efficient, scalable, and affordable, potentially reshaping how these treatments are produced. Chinese scientists have reported a new...

By Frank Vinluan - MedCity News - A rare but severe stem cell transplant complication that often becomes fatal now has its first FDA-approved treatment, a therapy developed by biotechnology company Omeros. Omeros’s complement system drug Yartemlea is now FDA approved...

By Matt Hoffman - CGTlive - As 2025 comes to a close, CGTLive has looked back on some of the most-read and most impactful FDA regulatory decisions and news in the cell and gene therapy space. These approvals and regulatory actions marked major progress for patients...

By Genetic Engineering adn Biotechnology News - Cancer immunotherapy transforms a patient’s immune cells into a “search‑and‑destroy” force against tumors. But many cancers learn to camouflage themselves from dendritic cells—the immune system’s scouts—making them...

by Tel-Aviv University - MedXpress - A new international study led by Prof. Carmit Levy of the Department of Human Genetics and Biochemistry at the Gray Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences at Tel Aviv University finds that melanoma cancer cells paralyze immune...

By William A. Haseltine, - Forbes - Treating brain diseases is extraordinarily challenging, because drugs often work poorly and implants require risky surgery that can jeopardize critical brain functions. A group at MIT has sought a different approach, using the...

By Anne Trafton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - ScitTechDaily - As the immune system weakens with age, researchers have found a way to temporarily boost its function by reprogramming liver cells to support T-cell development. As people get older, the immune...

By Drug Target Review - Kobe University researchers have developed a new way of freeze induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) directly in their culture dishes without losing viability or pluripotency. Researchers at Kobe University have developed a novel method...

by Science Daily - Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s disease. By experimentally testing nearly 1,000 DNA switches in human astrocytes, scientists identified around 150...