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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...

by Jacob Bell - BioPharmaDive - The agency has now cleared Shanghai-based Unixell to begin human studies in the U.S. for an allogeneic, stem cell-derived therapy targeting focal epilepsy. For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration is allowing a certain kind...

By PNAS.org - In December 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Review (CBER) approved a gene-based stem cell therapy for Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome, a rare and life-threatening genetic disease. This decision was...

By Steve Lundeberg - Oregon State University - by overcoming the challenge of consistently getting genes and gene-editing tools where they need to be within cells. Findings of the study spearheaded by Oregon State University College of Pharmacy graduate student Antony...

By Kyoto University - Nanogel integrated spheroids increase cell retention and repair injured swallowing muscles Kyoto, Japan -- Swallowing is a fundamental human function that supports nutrition and communication. Damage to swallowing muscles can reduce quality of...

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 hematologist...

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 actually...

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 in 1951 and still widely...

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 human diseases. Human...

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 his long...

By Jamie Bartosch - UChicago Medicine - “I was so sick and tired; I knew I couldn’t keep doing chemo,” said Cordle, 51, who lives in Mapleton, Illinois, just outside Peoria. The next step would be stem cell transplantation, also known as bone marrow transplantation....

By Melissa Rohman - NorthWwestern Medicine - CAR T-cell immunotherapy improved progression-free and overall survival in patients with relapsed or refractory marginal zone lymphoma, according to a recent clinical trial published in The Lancet. Marginal zone lymphoma...

By Oregon State University - Science Daily - Scientists at Oregon State University have engineered a powerful new nanomaterial that zeroes in on cancer cells and destroys them from the inside out. Designed to exploit cancer’s unique chemistry—its acidity and high...

By Columbia University Irving Medical Center - CAR-T cell therapy has revolutionized the treatment of many blood cancers, but has shown little success against solid tumors, which account for over 85% of all cancers. Columbia researchers have now found that a new type...

By Elise Takahama - Seattle Times - A King County jury has awarded $24 million to the family of a man who died a day after treatment at a Seattle stem cell center. Mike Trujillo was 62, a longtime electrician who ran an electrical company in Colorado. After being...