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Livelong Summit: Key Longevity Trends for Medical Professionals
By the HSAC TEAM Healthspan Action Coalition (HSAC) is sponsoring The Livelong Summit™ to bring you an exclusive 2-day event featuring some of the greatest minds in medicine and longevity science. Because so many medical professionals have already signed up, we’ve...
New CRISPR tool accelerates and optimizes genome editing
By April Wendling, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Phys.org - CRISPR/Cas systems have undergone tremendous advancement in the past decade. These precise genome editing tools have applications ranging from transgenic crop development to gene therapy and...
5 surprising reasons why you should donate blood
By U. Rochester-URMC - Futuirity - The American Red Cross is experiencing the most critical blood shortage in 20 years. Blood shortages are all too common, but they’re occurring more frequently now than ever before. Contact the Red Cross to find local blood drives...
Studying “Stone Man Syndrome,” Scientists Inadvertently Improve Cellular Reprogramming
Ben Andrew Henry - The Scientist - While studying a rare genetic disease, researchers discovered a signaling pathway linked to the efficiency of reprogramming somatic cells into stem cells. Thanks to a chance discovery, researchers have found a more efficient way to...
Thermo Fisher expands partnership with Multiply Labs to automate cell therapy production
By Joseph Keenan - Fierce Pharma - Robotics specialist Multiply Labs and Thermo Fisher Scientific inked a deal to expand their partnership to further automate the cell therapy production process. The two companies will integrate Multiply Lab's robotic technology and...
Artificial cartilage with the help of 3D printing
By Tu Wien News A new approach to producing artificial tissue has been developed at TU Wien: Cells are grown in microstructures created in a 3D printer. Is it possible to grow tissue in the laboratory, for example to replace injured cartilage? At TU Wien (Vienna), an...
FDA accepts first AI algorithm to drug development tool pilot, with Deliberate AI’s anxiety and depression assessment
By Andrea Park -Fierce Biotech - For the first time since it launched in 2020 and began accepting submissions in 2022, a program started by the FDA to provide support for unconventional drug development tools has accepted its first artificial intelligence-powered...
Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Severe Lung Condition in Small Trial
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...
Ancient viral DNA plays role in early embryo development
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...
Neurona raises $120M to take epilepsy cell therapy to late-stage development
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...
Jennifer Doudna: Delivering the future of CRISPR-based genome editing
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...
FDA takes bid to regulate ‘liquid magic’ stem cell treatments to Ninth Circuit
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...
Staten Island teen flies to Michigan to donate stem cells to a stranger in desperate need
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...
Secondary cancers following CAR T cell therapy are rare
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...
Surprisingly simple model explains how brain cells organize and connect
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...
An Italian Town Full of the Elderly Wants to Feel Young Again
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...
Japan approves new stem cell-based Alzheimer’s therapy
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...
New Mayo Clinic stem cell research to take flight into space
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...
World’s first IVF rhino pregnancy ‘could save species’
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...
How Stem Cell Embryo Models Won Method of the Year
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...
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