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Press Release - Healthspan Action Coalition BOSTON, MA, OCTOBER 2, 2026  - The Healthspan Action Coalition (HSAC) today announced a strategic international collaboration with a coalition of prominent Italian organizations, including Fondazione Bicocca, Italian Sources...

By Bernard Siegel The next era of healthspan will not be built by science alone. It will require collaboration among researchers, clinicians, innovators, investors, advocates, caregivers, policymakers, and the communities they serve. That is the purpose of the...

By RegMedNet - An interdisciplinary Penn State team has developed a bioprinting technique using microRNA-modified stem cell spheroids that simultaneously regenerate bone tissue and facilitate vascularization, offering new treatment options for severe bone trauma and...

by Tampere University - Phys Org - Researchers at Tampere University have developed a versatile hydrogel platform that makes it easier to create customized biomaterials for tissue engineering, disease modeling, drug discovery and regenerative medicine. Their...

By Springer Nature - Twenty years after the discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), the study of pluripotency, differentiation, and cellular reprogramming remains one of the most dynamic areas of modern biology. Questions surrounding how cell identities...

By Nina Bai, Stanford Medicine - SciTechDaily - Stanford Medicine researchers and colleagues found a way to make natural killer cells better at attacking cancer. In mice, the enhanced cells entered solid tumors and slowed their growth. One of the biggest successes of...

by Children's Hospital Boston - Medical Xpress - Patients with sickle cell disease are often hesitant to undergo transformative gene therapy—the current lengthy process requires multiple hospital visits to collect enough stem cells. Researchers from Boston Children's...

By Tohoku University - Stem cells possess the unique ability to self-renew and transform into different types of cells. For example, rare hematopoietic stem cells found in bone marrow can become any type of blood cell. Throughout life, they can produce new blood cells...

by Ty Tkacik, Pennsylvania State University - Phys Org - An interdisciplinary team of engineers and chemists at Penn State has laid the groundwork for 3D printing spheroids—tiny clusters of living cells—capable of regenerating bone tissue in response to severe trauma...

by Cecilie Bakken Høstmark, University of Oslo - Medical Xpress - On the forearms of those working in the laboratory at the University of Oslo, one thing stands out: mysterious round or cross-shaped scars on the skin. Here, researchers need skin cells, and they...