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by Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News If you want to know if a medical field is progressing, you can start by checking a couple of obvious indicators: the number of clinical trials, and the growth projections offered by market researchers. Both of these...

The medicine, a personalized stem cell treatment, will be reviewed by an FDA advisory committee sometime in the future, the company said. by Ned Pagliarulo - Biopharma Dive A yearslong disagreement between the Food and Drug Administration and a developer of an...

By Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News In this corner: the state-of-the-art enzyme function prediction tool … the Bioinformatic Brawler … the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool for proteins … BLASTp! And in this corner: the contender … the In Silico Kid …...

The UCF team is developing screws, pins, rods and other medical implants that are made of magnesium and dissolve within the body, eliminating the need to remove them. By Eric Eraso - UCF news When children break a bone, the traditional process of inserting metal...

By Paul McClure - New Atlas Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a new type of neural implant that combines stem cells with electronics and has the potential to help amputees or those who’ve lost the use of their limbs. Developments in implantable...

Huge #parkinsonsdisease breakthrough illustrating the power of dedicated patient advocacy- forging coalitions supporting research and trials. It's a game changer! Ace science journalist Matthew Herper in #STAT covered the breaking announcement, "The trophy is science...

The 20th World Stem Cell Summit (WSCS), in association with the Healthspan Action Coalition, announced that it will showcase a Special Symposium and Focus Sessions on the "Intersection of Regenerative Medicine and Healthspan" - focusing on the science, technologies...

By Ingrid Wickelgren - Scientific American This novel injection system could help advance gene therapy by nimbly inserting gene-editing enzymes into a variety of cell types nside the gut of a caterpillar lives a worm, and inside the worm lurks a bioluminescent...

By Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Turning genes on and off as easily and predictably as flicking a switch could be a powerful tool in medicine and biotech. A type of technology called a riboswitch might be the key. The Okinawa Institute of Science and...

Roughly 168,000 veterans receiving care have Alzheimer’s dementia By Joseph Walker - The Wall Street journal Eisai Co.’s new Alzheimer’s disease drug Leqembi will be covered by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the first major insurer to agree to pay for the...

By Tina Reed - Axios Digital health and biotech firms made up a substantial part of Silicon Valley Bank's client base. And its historic failure is raising troubling questions about how much the fallout will hurt emerging health companies in need of capital. Driving...

By Leah Crane - New Scientist Gene-edited rice plants may be able to grow on Mars. Researchers have now identified a gene that, when modified, seems to give rice plants a better chance of surviving in harsh Martian soil. Martian soil, or regolith, has fewer nutrients...

by The Francis Crick Institute Head of the Crick's Stem Cells and Neuromuscular Regeneration Lab, Francesco Saverio Tedesco, is also a doctor at Great Ormond Street Hospital, where he specializes in neurological and neuromuscular diseases of childhood, like muscular...

By Sue Pearson - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News Multiple sclerosis (MS), a potentially disabling disease in which the immune system attacks the myelin sheath of nerve cells, currently lacks a cure. The available treatments are designed to speed the...

By Gabrielle Masson - Fierce Biotech News Athenex is in a tight spot, trying to stretch out its remaining cash and ward off an unruly creditor just as the FDA slaps a clinical hold on its neuroblastoma cell therapy while it explores a patient's death in a phase 1...

Nicole Mlynaryk - University of California Sab Diego News UC San Diego scientists find stem cells’ unique way of discarding misfolded proteins could be the key to maintaining long-term health and preventing disease In humanity’s ongoing quest for the elixir of life,...

By Linda Wang - UCLA Health A research team led by Dr. Thomas Rando, director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, has discovered that restoring glutathione—a key antioxidant that prevents cell damage—rejuvenates...

By Tim Hornyak - Nature Successes in life sciences and international collaboration could be key to boosting the country’s high-quality output. After five years studying genome editing at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, Keiji Nishida returned to Japan...

by Neil Martin - UNSW Sydney Newsroom UNSW researchers unveil prototype device that can directly 3D print living cells onto internal organs and potentially be used as an all-in-one endoscopic surgical tool. Engineers from UNSW Sydney have developed a miniature and...

By Heidi Ledford - Nature Researchers will discuss advances in genome-editing technologies — and the ethics of deploying them — at a major international summit. When researchers gather in London next week for the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing,...