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by William A. Haseltine - Forbes At present, the only way to cure genetic blood disorders such as sickle cell anemia and thalassemia is to reset the immune system with a stem cell transplantation. Only a fraction of patients elects this procedure, as the process is...

By Elizabeth Pennisi - Science When Vicki Losick got her Ph.D. and joined a fruit fly lab at the Carnegie Institution for Science in 2008, its head announced that he expected his postdocs to launch new fields of inquiry. She chose a then-fashionable focus: stem cells,...

Researchers and policymakers often exist in different worlds and speak different languages. Here are three ways to bridge the divide. by Nature.com Science is a key driver of economic growth and social progress. If science can be accelerated — such as by increasing...

By Theresa Tamkins, Jessica Klingbaum and Kristen Dahlgren - NBC News Eye surgeons in the U.S. are inching closer to being able to use a specific type of stem cell transplant to fix a serious eye problem that can cause pain and permanent vision loss. It was the Fourth...

by Frances Crick Institute Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, working with technology company Faculty AI, have shown that machine learning can accurately predict subtypes of Parkinson’s disease using images of...

by Keck School of Medicine of USC - MedicalXpress Image caption: Rows of sensory hearing cells (green) next to supporting cells (red) in the inner ear of a mouse. Credit: John Duc Nguyen and Juan Llamas/Segil Lab A deafened adult cannot recover the ability to hear,...

by Katie Brighton - Technology Networks With cancer rates among young adults on the rise, the number of people experiencing infertility as a result of chemotherapy is also expected to increase. Yet, there are currently no therapies available to restore fertility after...

by Monash University - Technology Networks News In a groundbreaking study published in Nature, Australian scientists have resolved a long-standing problem in regenerative medicine. Led by Professor Ryan Lister from the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and...

By Susan Buckles – Mayo Clinic A dissolvable plug delivered stem cell therapy with few side effects in patients with single tract perianal fistulas, Mayo Clinic researchers discovered. Perianal fistulas are painful tunnels between the intestine and the skin that often...

By Elaine Fuchs - Rockefeller University News Early on, every stem cell faces a fateful choice. During skin development, for instance, the embryonic epidermis begins as a single layer of epidermal progenitor cells. Their choice is to become a mature epidermal cell or...

by Sarah C. P. Williams - Phys.org It's one of the mysteries of nature: How does the axolotl, a small salamander, boast a superhero-like ability to regrow nearly any part of its body? For years, scientists have studied the amazing regenerative properties of the...

By Susan Buckles - Mayo Clinic Growing up in the Netherlands, Daniel Saris, M.D., Ph.D., was exposed to the wonders of science at a young age. He listened to his father, a physicist, when he spoke at scientific conferences. His mother, an English teacher, encouraged...

by University of Sydney A team of bioengineers and biomedical scientists from the University of Sydney and the Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) at Westmead have used 3D photolithographic printing to create a complex environment for assembling tissue that...

By Annalee Armstrong - Fierce Biotech Scientists have long known that cancer cells typically have extra chromosomes, but what exactly was the extra genetic material doing? New research from a team at Yale University has finally provided an answer. Humans typically...

By Tessa Koumoundouros - Science Alert In efforts to tackle the leading cause of blindness in developed countries, researchers have recruited nanotechnology to help regrow retinal cells. Macular degeneration is a form of central vision loss, which has massive social,...

By Ticia Hanisch - MD Anderson I was 71 years old when Guillermo Garcia-Manero, M.D., diagnosed me with aggressive, high-risk, acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) that morphed from myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) in October 2018. I was in shock. I felt great, but my...

By inside Precision Medicine Just after 8:30 ET on Tuesday night a Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched carrying 20 payloads of a diverse set of research projects to determine the benefits of working in microgravity....

By Dr. Prajakta Banik - Tech Explorist Cell therapy, a promising approach to treating various diseases, involves harnessing the power of a patient’s immune cells to target and destroy specific harmful cells, such as cancerous ones. However, a significant challenge in...

by Nature Organoids are three-dimensional structures of self-assembled cell aggregates that mimic anatomical features of in vivo organs and can serve as in vitro miniaturized organ models for drug testing. The most efficient way of studying drug toxicity and efficacy...

by John Knox - Stanford Medicine News If you can imagine the entire population of Fresno, California wiped out, then you can understand what it means to say that more than half a million people will die in the U.S this year from lung cancer. It’s the leading cause of...