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By Emily Mullin - Wired - “It was a circus, bouncing from specialist to specialist and constantly desecrating my body with endless amounts of prescription pills, all in the hopes of finding a sliver of what it feels like to be alive,” Olaghere told an advisory...

By James Zou, PhD - Targeted Oncology (click here for video) - James Zou, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical data science at Stanford University, discusses machine learning and the different ways oncologists are utilizing it for the management, treatment, and...

By: Brooklyn Draisey - Iowa Capital Dispatch - Findings from a group of Iowa State University researchers could lead to the ability to create new blood stem cells from a patient’s own blood, possibly doing away with the need for bone marrow transplants. ISU assistant...

By William A. Haseltine - Forbes - In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection of interventions that restore to normal function tissues and organs that have been damaged by disease, injured by trauma, or worn by time. I include a full spectrum of...

By Matthew Tontonoz - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center When Christopher Klebanoff, MD, came to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) from the National Cancer Institute in 2016, he was focused on a singular goal: bringing the promise of cellular...

by Weil Cornell Medicine - A drug screening system that models cancers using lab-grown tissues called organoids has helped uncover a promising target for future pancreatic cancer treatments, according to a new study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine. In the...

One of the 2023 highlights for #regenerativemedicinefoundation was our special project- World Stem Cell Summit in June at the fabulous #InnovationQuarter in #visitWinstonSalem- The 20th annual Summit was combined with the #WFIRM Regenerative Medicine Essentials Course...

By Alvin Powell - The Harvard Gazette - The Food and Drug Administration announced last week that it’s investigating reports of secondary cancers in patients who received CAR T-cell therapy, one of a suite of immunotherapies that have revolutionized cancer care over...

By Edd Gent - IEEE Spectrum - Multimaterial 3D-printing approach produces functional devices in a single shot A skeletal robotic hand with working ligaments and tendons can now be 3D-printed in one run. The creepy accomplishment was made possible by a new approach to...

By Rhiannon Williams - MIT Technology Review - A new system was able to capture exact words and phrases from the brain activity of someone listening to podcasts. A noninvasive brain-computer interface capable of converting a person’s thoughts into words could one day...

By Felix Myhill -  RegMedNet - Whether or not to administer CAR-T cell therapy to cancer patients who go into remission during the therapy manufacturing window has long been a largely uninformed decision. The findings of a recent study reveal that administering CAR-T...

San Francisco, CA and West Palm Beach, FL, December 13, 2023 – The nonprofit Healthspan Action Coalition (HSAC), in its first year of operations, has already assembled 120 organizations under the banner of “Healthspan.” This societal movement recognizes that with new...

By Alice Park - Time It was only 11 years ago that scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier first described a new way to edit genes, called CRISPR, in a scientific paper. The discovery is so game-changing that the pair earned the Nobel Prize in Chemistry...

by Michigan State University Brett Volmert is a Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. candidate in the College of Engineering. In a recent study, Volmert described a method for the creation and growth of mini human hearts, termed “heart organoids”. He presented the research...

By Craig Brierley - University of Cambridge - An international team has shown that the injection of a type of stem cell into the brains of patients living with progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) is safe, well tolerated and has a long-lasting effect that appears to...

By Katie Hunt, CNN Scientists have created tiny living robots from human cells that can move around in a lab dish and may one day be able to help heal wounds or damaged tissue, according to a new study. A team at Tufts University and Harvard University’s Wyss...

by Joanne S. Eglovitch - Regulatory Focus The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued final guidance describing its process for recognizing voluntary consensus standards (VCS) to spur the development of regenerative medicine therapies (RMTs) evaluated within...

By Susan Buckles - Mayo Clinic During clinical rotations in medical school, Kianna Nguyen encountered many patients with liver failure and was struck by a grim reality: Their only hope was a transplant. The shortage of donor organs and therapeutic options was at once...