News and Opinions

By Josh Nathan-Kazis - Barron's - Biotech investors seemed to be taking the sudden departure of a top Food and Drug Administration official last month as a good sign for the sector, but increasing turmoil at the FDA could worsen the picture for drugmakers over the...

By Siladitya Ray - Forbes - Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced he is cancelling contracts and grants worth nearly $500 million earmarked to develop mRNA vaccines, as the long-time vaccine critic has repeatedly cast doubts about the...

by Brittany Cordeiro - Mayo Clinic - ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic has treated the first person in the U.S. using a novel radioactive medicine for advanced breast cancer as part of an international multisite clinical trial. The medicine used in this clinical trial...

By Bobby Mukkamala, MD - AMA - For more than a century, NIH-sponsored research has played a critical role in improving the nation’s health. This vital work must continue. It’s not hyperbole to say my sudden brain cancer diagnosis last fall could have put a swift end...

by By Kathy Liszewski - Genetic Engineering & Biology News - Novel allogeneic stem cells and differentiated iPSCs are providing more physiologically relevant disease models From axolotls to zebrafish, stem cells possess remarkable regenerative abilities, enabling them...

by Denise Heady, University of California, Los Angeles - MedicalXpress - In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, UCLA scientists have shown it's possible to reprogram a patient's blood-forming stem cells to generate a continuous supply of functional T cells, the immune...

By Celeste Krewson - Contemporary OB/GYN - Stem cell treatment may be effective for fertility restoration in women with ovarian failure, according to a recent study published in Aging (Aging-US).1 This method was associated with a 70% oocyte activation rate and...

By Christy Santhosh - Reuters News - Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT.O), failed to win the European drug regulator's backing for its muscle disorder gene therapy on Friday, as the company faces intense regulatory scrutiny after two recent patient deaths tied to the...

By Nature Communications Biology - Adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (ADMSCs) represent a novel therapeutic intervention for Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). The attractiveness of ADMSCs is characterized by their immunomodulatory activities, regenerative...

By Genectic Engineering & Biotechnology - Phase I clinical trial results suggest that an antibody treatment, used in combination with other drugs, enabled stem cell transplants for three children with Fanconi anemia without toxic busulfan chemotherapy or radiation....

By Emily Mullin - WIRED - Florida is the latest state to sidestep the authority of the Food and Drug Administration by allowing patients to access certain stem-cell treatments that have not been rigorously evaluated and approved. Under a new law that went into effect...

By National institutes of Health - Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies involve taking immune cells, called T cells, from a patient and engineering them to make a protein that lets them recognize and attack the patient’s cancer cells. CAR T cells have...

By Danny Sullivan - Longevity.Technology - Healthspan Action Coalition's Bernard Siegel says new state laws show the federal government needs to ‘get its act together’ on patient access to innovative therapies. As a member of the Florida Bar Association for the past...

by Steve Bryson, PhD - Multiple Sclerosis Today - More study needed to support evidence, researchers say. Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapy is safe and well tolerated, and leads to improvements in disability and a reduction in lesion burden in people with multiple...

by Duke University - Futurity - The ankle’s ability to regenerate cartilage uses the same mechanisms that enable some animals to grow new limbs, and it could be harnessed to repair cartilage in knees and hips hobbled by osteoarthritis. Those findings in the journal...

By Kevin Famuyiro - The Los Angeles Times - For years it’s been science fiction: printing a spare part for the human body on demand. But today in labs around the world that fiction is becoming a reality. 3D bioprinting, the marriage of biology and engineering, allows...

By Technology Networks Genomics Research - New stem cell platform models Alzheimer's risk using cells from people with high and low genetic predisposition. Researchers at the UK Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff University have developed a new stem cell resource...

by Arkadi Mazin - Lifespan Research Institute - This may have effects on a significant component of Alzheimer's. Scientists have shown that aberrant metabolism of glycogen in neurons is linked to the accumulation of harmful tau protein. Caloric restriction, genetic...

By Nicole Wagner - ISS National Laboratory = Research that leverages space to develop treatments for blindness, cancer, and Parkison’s disease is jeopardized by the $6.1 billion NASA budget cuts recently announced for 2026 by President Trump. The cuts to the...