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By Cold Spring Harbor Laboaratory - How does science make life better? Here’s one example spanning eons. There’s an adaptive immune system called CRISPR that has existed in bacteria for billions of years. Thanks to fundamental biology research, it is now being used to...

By Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News - Typically, bone marrow research relies heavily on animal models and oversimplified cell cultures in the laboratory. Now, researchers from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel and University Hospital...

By Science Daily - Inflammation covertly rewires the bone marrow, enabling mutated stem cells to rise and setting the stage for future blood disease. Researchers discovered that chronic inflammation fundamentally remodels the bone marrow, allowing mutated stem cell...

By Stem Cells Translational Medicine - Background: Stem cell research has rapidly advanced during the past decades, but the translation into approved clinical products is still lagging behind. Multiple barriers to effective clinical translation exist. We hypothesize...

By Miranda McLaren - Clinical Trials Alerts - Mesenchymal stem cells have been explored across a wide range of diseases due to their potential to reduce inflammation and promote tissue repair and regeneration. BBG Advanced Therapies’ Rogelio Zamilpa, PhD takes us...

by Aamir Khollam - Interesting Engineering - Texas A&M scientists used nanoflower-boosted stem cells to deliver extra mitochondria to weakened cells, restoring lost energy and improving survival under stress. Scientists at Texas A&M University say they may have found...

by Children's Medical Research Institute - MedicalXpress - Researchers at the Eye Genetics Research Unit at Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) are the first in the world to use stem cells to study one of the genetic causes of Leber Congenital Amaurosis...

By James O'Donnell - MIT Technology Review - As technologists frame AI as either utopian or dystopian, two researchers offer a third option. Right now, despite its ubiquity, AI is seen as anything but a normal technology. There is talk of AI systems that will soon...

By American Medical Journal - A NEW phase 3 clinical trial has revealed that stem cells can help prevent heart failure in patients recovering from acute myocardial infarction. The study found that intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells significantly reduced...

By Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News - Scientists at the University of Glasgow developed a bioengineered bone marrow (BM) model that helped them to evaluate potential use of a combined CRISPR-CAR T cell therapy in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia. The...

By Rockefeller University - ScienceDaily Scientists found that low serine levels spark a shift in hair stem cells, transforming them into wound-healing experts — with diet playing a possible role. Rockefeller scientists uncovered how hair follicle stem cells can...

By Jonah Feldman, Frederick Locke, MD - Targeted Oncology - On June 26, 2025, the FDA announced the elimination of the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) program that applied to 6 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies approved to treat patients...

By Paul Knoepfler - STAT - The company that claimed to revive the dire wolf continues to raise ethical questions De-extinction firm Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday that it was acquiring animal cloning firm Viagen. The same day, retired NFL all-star Tom Brady...

By Medical Life Sciences News - Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has demonstrated a new application for its cell-expansion bioreactor to advance tissue engineering and cell-based therapies for treatment of injuries and diseases. SwRI scientists used the bioreactor...

By Optics.org - A project at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has successfully stimulated stem cells in a manner that reliably induced them to develop into bone cells. The technology could ultimately lead to ways to generate specific cells for biomedical...

by GOAI -Gene Online - Japanese researchers are exploring a novel, minimally invasive method to repair spinal fractures using body fat-derived cells. The experimental approach involves converting fat cells into bone tissue, offering a potential alternative to...

By Sabrina Richards - Fred Hutch Cancer Center - Bioengineer Dr. Matthias Stephan developed a quick-foaming solution that he hopes could one day turn gene therapy into an outpatient procedure The special properties of methylcellulose foam could make it a vehicle for...

By Jennie Erin Smith - Science - New effort is modeled after the state’s long-running cancer research institute Texas voters this week made a bet that their state could build on a legacy of success in cancer research and become a powerhouse in neurological research as...

by Kermit Pattison –  Harvard Gazette – Findings on adrenaline’s role in process raise new possibilities for regenerative medicine Biologists long have been fascinated by the ability of salamanders to regrow entire limbs. Now Harvard researchers have solved part of...

By Stanford Medicine -  ScienceDaiiy - A Stanford-led team has replaced toxic pre-transplant chemotherapy with a targeted antibody, allowing children with Fanconi anemia to receive stem cell transplants safely. The antibody, briquilimab, removes diseased stem cells...