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By Brian Buntz - Drug Discovery & Development - Emory University stem-cell biologist Chunhui Xu is looking to space for a new way to mend damaged hearts on Earth. Her team is using the International Space Station (ISS) National Lab to test if the near-weightless...

The month of May is designated "Huntington's Disease Awareness Month". The proclamation was made in 1992 by President George H.W. Bush. This is time dedicated to raising awareness about the condition, supporting families impacted by it, and promoting research towards...

By Ioana Patringenaru - UC San Diego Today - Researchers have developed a new therapy that can be injected intravenously right after a heart attack to promote healing and prevent heart failure. The therapy both prompts the immune system to encourage tissue repair and...

By Japan Forward - The day when regenerative medicine using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) will be used in real-world treatments is fast approaching. For Japan to become a world leader in the field of iPS cell technologies, the government should strengthen...

by Christina Elston - Cedars Sinai - Cedars-Sinai Scientist Explains How She Created Cells the Immune System Doesn’t See, Forging a Possible Future Solution to Organ Rejection in Transplant Patients Cedars-Sinai is a leading transplant center, with patient outcomes...

By The ISS National Laboratory - NASA Funds Continuation of ISS National Lab-Sponsored Brain Cell Studies From NSCF Millions of Americans live with Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis (MS), and Alzheimer’s—neurodegenerative diseases with no cure and no significant...

by Linda Wang - Phys.org - by Linda Wang, University of California, Los Angeles Plant breeding plays a vital role in ensuring global food security by increasing crop yields, improving nutritional quality and creating crops that are adaptable to climate change....

By Jessica Cordes - Clinical Leader - Advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs), including cell and gene therapies, have the potential to transform treatment paradigms across oncology, immunology, and rare diseases and are expanding into new indications. Yet these...

By Zach Winn | MIT News - Founded by MIT researchers, Senti Bio is giving immune cells the ability to distinguish between healthy and cancerous cells. One of the most exciting developments in cancer treatment is a wave of new cell therapies that train a patient’s...

By Nippon.com - Japan is a global leader in cutting-edge research into the use of iPS cells, whose potentials include the development of revolutionary new medicines and treatments for incurable diseases. We sat down with Etō Kōji, the deputy director of Kyoto...

By Cedars Sinai - Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute Looks to the Future With Three New Leadership Appointments, Master’s Program The Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute is marking its 15th anniversary by further expanding...

By CNN - The hunt for cancer-combatting antibodies normally relies upon human lab scientists combing through vast amounts of data. LabGenius’ automated AI robotic system has disrupted that process. Using machine learning, their model has pushed through the human...

By Jonathan D. Grinstein, PhD - Inside Precision Medicine - BlueRock Therapeutics and Kyoto University showed transplants of lab-grown dopamine neurons are safe, with potential to advance Parkinson's treatment Two independent teams of researchers have published...

By News Medical Life Sciences - Bone regeneration continues to be a critical challenge in tissue engineering, with unpredictable outcomes often hindering clinical application. Current strategies overlook key factors such as donor differences and biological sex, both...

by Kadeja Johnson - RegMedNet - 4basebio PLC has received a Good Manufacturing Practice certification from the UK Medicine and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (London), authorizing the company to supply GMP-grade synthetic DNA as both a starting material and drug...

By Smriti Mallapaty – Nature – Induced pluripotent stem cells are being tested to treat blindness, paralysis, Parkinson’s disease and more. Approvals might be around the corner. Japan is brimming with signs of an approaching medical revolution. Shiny white robots are...

By Ned Pagliarulo - PharmaVoice - A commission urged the U.S. government to prioritize biotechnology funding and policies to stay ahead of China in fields it argued are vital to national security. The U.S. risks losing a once-decisive edge over China in biotechnology...

This is where the world’s top innovators, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and investors come together to build a better world with synthetic biology. Join us in San Jose as we explore how synbio is transforming industries from healthcare, agriculture,...

By Katherine Eban - Vanity Fair - If you’ve ever used eye drops that didn’t blind you, thank Dr. Timothy J. Pohlhaus. As of yesterday, he’s gone. And if you’ve ever been injected with a sterile drug that helped heal you instead of killing you, you have relied on the...

By Cristy Lytal - Keck School of Medicine of USC - The same genes could hold the key to regenerating cells in the ear and eye, according to a new mouse study from the USC Stem Cell laboratory of Ksenia Gnedeva, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...