News and Opinions

by Technology Networks - Biopharma News - Initial trial suggests invariant natural killer cell therapy improves survival. Promising trial results indicate that a new type of cell therapy could improve the prognosis of those who are critically ill with acute...

By Dr Naomi Phillips - Progress.org - Viral genetic material, integrated into our DNA millions of years ago, has an essential role in a key early stage in embryo development. Using a mouse model, scientists in Spain have shown that endogenous retroviruses, part of the...

By Kyle LaHucik - Endpoints News Neurona Therapeutics has gathered $120 million in what is expected to be its last private financing round to wrap up an open-label study this year and move its epilepsy cell therapy into a randomized Phase II in 2025, CEO and...

by Marni Ellery - Berkley Engineering - Nobel laureate details new applications at Kuh Distinguished Lecture. Jennifer Doudna, Nobel laureate and Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Chair and Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology, presented...

By Edvard Pettersson - Courthouse News Service - The FDA asked the Ninth Circuit to follow their colleagues on the 11th Circuit and find that novel stem cell procedures are not exempt from the agency's oversight. PASADENA, Calif. (CN) — The U.S. Food and Drug...

By Dr. Gracelyn Santos - SILive.com Binghamton sophomore and Staten Islander, Hayley Bond, 19, recently traveled to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to donate her stem cells, after being informed she was a match for a leukemia patient, in desperate need of a bone marrow...

By Penn Medicine News - Penn Today - The development of any type of second cancer following CAR T cell therapy is a rare occurrence, as found in an analysis of more than 400 patients treated at Penn Medicine, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine report in...

By Matt Wood - University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division - A new study by physicists and neuroscientists from the University of Chicago, Harvard and Yale describes how connectivity among neurons comes about through general principles of networking and...

By Jason Horowitz - New York Times - As the traveling brass band ended San Giovanni Lipioni’s annual holiday concert with a rendition of Wham’s “Last Christmas,” the gray-haired villagers seated in the old church of the central Italian hill town gazed dotingly at the...

By Phoebe Shields - Proactive - In what could be a major breakthrough for Alzheimer's treatment, the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare has given the greenlight to a regenerative medicine technology based on administering fat-derived stem cells intravenously and...

By Lynda De Widt - Mayo Clinic - A Mayo Clinic research experiment will be part of a payload that launches into space from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Jan. 29, subject to weather conditions and other factors. The research team from the...

By Rebecca Morelle and Alison Francis - BBC News Science - A fertility breakthrough has offered hope for saving the northern white rhino from extinction - there are only two of the animals left on the planet. Scientists have achieved the world's first IVF rhino...

By Technology Networks -  A collection of ingenious biological tools for studying the genesis of life has been awarded Nature Methods’ coveted Method of the Year award for 2023. A collection of ingenious biological tools for studying the genesis of life has been...

By Anne Trafton - MIT News - MIT researchers can now track a cell’s RNA expression to investigate long-term processes like cancer progression or embryonic development. Sequencing all of the RNA in a cell can reveal a great deal of information about that cell’s...

By Technology Networks - “Dental pulp and periodontal ligament stem cells both have the potential to develop into any type of cell in the body.” A team of researchers from the ADA Forsyth Institute and University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill used single-cell...

By Labiotech - This week on the podcast, we have a conversation with Dr Paul Song, CEO of NKGen Biotech, a company with its sights set on changing the Alzheimer’s disease treatment landscape with natural killer cells. The company’s natural killer (NK) cell Alzheimer’s...

By University of Arizona Health Services - One of the biggest barriers to regenerative medicine is immunological rejection by the recipient, a problem researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences are one step closer to solving after genetically modifying...

By Samiha Khanna - Mayo Clinic News Network - ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic, the world’s No. 1 hospital and a global leader in advancing trusted generative artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare applications, has announced a multi-year strategic collaboration with...

By Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute - Researchers are zeroing in on the ultimate quest to regenerate insulin in pancreatic stem cells and replace the need for regular insulin injections. Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute researchers have demonstrated in a Nature...

By ISS National Laboratory - KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (FL) – More than two dozen investigations sponsored by the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory, many of which focus on the life sciences, will fly on Axiom Space’s third private astronaut mission to...