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There are more cancer survivors in the U.S. than ever before, thanks to advances in cancer research. By Kaitlin Sullivan - NBC News Significant strides in cancer treatments, diagnostic tools and prevention strategies continue to drive down cancer death rates,...

The technique had largely been limited to editing patients’ cells in the lab. New research shows promise for treating diseases more directly. By Emily Mullin - Wired A decade ago, biologists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier published a landmark paper...

A mutation in the small protein SHMOOSE is associated with Alzheimer’s risk and highlights a possible target for treatment. By Beth Newcomb - USC Leonard Davis A mutation in a newly discovered small protein is connected to a significant increase in the risk for...

By Susan Buckles - Mayo Clinic May is ALS Awareness Month, a time to reflect on the role of regenerative medicine research in advancing understanding and treatment of  amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's disease. This neurodegenerative disorder causes...

Researchers in the Netherlands found that a therapy that uses a patient's own immune cells slowed the progression of metastatic melanoma. By Kaitlin Sullivan - NBC News European researchers announced Saturday that a new treatment for advanced melanoma was more...

By Nick Lavars - News Atlas As the hardest tissue in the human body, enamel is not an easy material for engineers to mimic, but doing so could mean big things in materials science and regenerative medicine. Researchers are now reporting a breakthrough in this area, by...

Jennifer Doudna challenges governments, universities and investors to seize the moment and radically expand gene editing revolution In a life-changing collaboration with the French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier, we figured out how the chemistry of this process...

Australian blood stem cell research could help change the future of stem cell medicine. by Imma Perfetto - Cosmos Magazine Two new pieces of research out of the University of NSW in Sydney have shone new light on how the precursors to blood stem cells occur in animals...

Hanae Armitage - Stanford Medicine If you ask me, there's nothing quite so weird and wonderful as a cuttlefish. Or a squid. Or an octopus. Basically, the whole cephalopod gang. Maybe it's their gangly, elegant appendages, or their sleek, streamlined bodies gliding...

The therapy, typically used to treat blood cancer, has so far induced remission in six patients in Germany. By Kaitlin Sullivan - Health.com An immunotherapy used to treat blood cancer also shows promise as a treatment for lupus, new research shows. The news comes...

by Kyoto University - Medical Express Image Caption: The Act on the Safety of Regenerative Medicine (ASRM) targets to regulate medical practices that aim to achieve the “reconstruction, repair, or formation of human body structures or functions” or the “therapy or...

By Joanna Bridger and Emmanouil Karteris - The Conversation Space is a hostile, extreme environment. It’s only a matter of time before ordinary people are exposed to this environment, either by engaging in space tourism or by joining self-sustaining colonies far away...

BREAKING NEWS! This just in, promising research for understanding human #neuropsychiatric disorders, as reported in the MIT Technology Review: "Human #neurons transplanted into a rat’s brain continue to grow, forming connections with the animals’ own brain cells and...

by University of New South Wales - Phys.org image: The microfluidic device that emulated an embryo's heartbeat and blood circulation. The cell seeding channels are indicated by red food dye, while the heart ventricular contraction control channels and circulation...

by Yu-Jin Kim, Sang Ho Lee, Jisoo Im, Jihun Song, Han Young Kim & Suk Ho Bhang - Communications Biology Abstract Conditioned medium (CM) contains various therapeutic molecules produced by cells. However, the low concentration of therapeutic molecules in CM is a major...

By Jarrett Renshaw - Reuters The White House released new details on Wednesday on how it plans to invest more than $2 billion in the U.S. biotechnology sector as it hosts a meeting of government leaders to discuss the emerging industry. President Joe Biden on Monday...

Brian Cummings, UCI professor of physical medicine & rehabilitation and founding member of the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, has received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to establish a training...

  By Ku Leuven Professor Vincent Pasque and his team at KU Leuven have generated a new type of human cell in the lab using stem cells. The cells closely resemble their natural counterparts in early human embryos. As a result, researchers can now better study what...

This collaborative event featured luminaries from across the longevity spectrum. by Arkadi Mazin - lifespan.io It was all about collaboration: maybe not a lot of shiny new discoveries and unpublished data, but Longevity Summit Dublin 2022 brought together researchers,...

By Netherlands Cancer Institute A patient's own immune cells, expanded into an army of billions of immune cells in a specialized laboratory, can be used as a living drug against metastatic melanoma, an aggressive type of skin cancer, as the TIL trial has shown. The...