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By Catherine Eckford - European Pharmaceutical Review The first allogeneic stem cell transplant therapy to be approved based on Phase III study results has been granted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation...

By Natalie Lisbona - BBC News Dr Talia Cohen Solal sits down at a microscope to look closely at human brain cells grown in a petri dish. "The brain is very subtle, complex and beautiful," she says. A neuroscientist, Dr Cohen Solal is the co-founder and chief executive...

by Jasmine Hagan - RegMedNet The UK is set to be the second country to trial a pioneering stem cell robot to improve the manufacture of safe and cost-effective cell-based therapeutics. Manufacturing challenges have limited the availability of stem cell-based...

The peptide blocks a hyperactive brain enzyme that contributes to the neurodegeneration seen in Alzheimer’s and other diseases. By Anne Trafton - MIT News MIT neuroscientists have found a way to reverse neurodegeneration and other symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease by...

Cedars-Sinai researchers are working with Axiom Space to test if stem cells can be easily produced and grown aboard the International Space Station.   By Ed Cara - Gizmodo Stem cell research is expanding beyond earthly confines. Scientists from Cedars-Sinai in...

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...