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5 days ago
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Daily briefing: CAR-T-cell therapy keeps a trio of autoimmune diseases at bay

fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago
Medicine

Woman with three deadly diseases has remarkable' recovery after cell therapy

A woman with three autoimmune diseases achieved remission after CAR T-cell therapy, marking a significant breakthrough in treatment options.
fromNature
6 days ago
Medicine

One woman, three autoimmune diseases: CAR-T therapy vanquishes ultra-rare disease trio

A woman with three autoimmune diseases experienced no symptoms after receiving engineered immune cells, marking a significant treatment breakthrough.
Science
fromNature
5 days ago

Daily briefing: CAR-T-cell therapy keeps a trio of autoimmune diseases at bay

Engineered immune cells successfully treated a woman with three autoimmune diseases, resulting in no symptoms or medication needed after fourteen months.
Cancer
fromwww.independent.co.uk
4 days ago

Cell therapy helps woman with three autoimmune diseases make remarkable' recovery

A woman with severe autoimmune diseases achieved treatment-free remission after innovative cell therapy at University Hospital Erlangen.
Medicine
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Woman with three deadly diseases has remarkable' recovery after cell therapy

A woman with three autoimmune diseases achieved remission after CAR T-cell therapy, marking a significant breakthrough in treatment options.
Medicine
fromNature
6 days ago

One woman, three autoimmune diseases: CAR-T therapy vanquishes ultra-rare disease trio

A woman with three autoimmune diseases experienced no symptoms after receiving engineered immune cells, marking a significant treatment breakthrough.
#car-t-therapy
Medicine
fromInsideHook
1 day ago

CAR T Therapy Shows Promise Against Autoimmune Diseases

CAR T therapy shows promise in treating autoimmune conditions, providing significant relief for patients previously unresponsive to traditional treatments.
Medicine
fromThe Atlantic
5 days ago

The Biggest Hope for Curing Autoimmune Disease

Experimental CAR-T cell treatment shows promise for severe autoimmune diseases, with one patient returning to a normal life after years of unsuccessful treatments.
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
1 day ago

AI is rewriting the rules of biological experiments, but safety regulations aren't keeping up

AI is autonomously designing and running biological experiments, outpacing current governance systems meant to regulate these capabilities.
#hiv
Cancer
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 day ago

Person functionally cured of HIV after bone marrow transplant from sibling

A 63-year-old man achieved functional HIV cure through a bone marrow transplant from his brother with a rare genetic mutation.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
5 days ago

Why can't humans regenerate limbs? New research offers a clue

While some other creatures, most notably salamanders and starfish, can regenerate entire limbs, mammals don't have this evolutionary superpower. The big question is: Why are mammals limited?
OMG science
Cancer
fromNews Center
1 day ago

Targeting Novel Long Non-Coding RNA May Improve Glioblastoma Treatment - News Center

Increased expression of a novel long non-coding RNA drives glioblastoma cell growth and may inform new therapeutic strategies.
#genetics
fromThe Washington Post
1 week ago
Health

One way to live longer: Win the genetic lottery

Genetic factors account for about 50% of human lifespan, significantly higher than the previously estimated 20%.
fromNature
6 days ago
Science

Daily briefing: A treatment to reverse cellular ageing is about to be tested in people

Partial reprogramming may enter clinical trials soon, and a DNA tweak can induce sex reversal in female mice.
Health
fromThe Washington Post
1 week ago

One way to live longer: Win the genetic lottery

Genetic factors account for about 50% of human lifespan, significantly higher than the previously estimated 20%.
Science
fromNature
6 days ago

Daily briefing: A treatment to reverse cellular ageing is about to be tested in people

Partial reprogramming may enter clinical trials soon, and a DNA tweak can induce sex reversal in female mice.
#aging
OMG science
fromNature
1 week ago

This method to reverse cellular ageing is about to be tested in humans

Yuancheng Ryan Lu's research on reprogramming retinal nerve cells could lead to restoring eyesight and rejuvenating organs.
OMG science
fromNature
1 week ago

This method to reverse cellular ageing is about to be tested in humans

Yuancheng Ryan Lu's research on reprogramming retinal nerve cells could lead to restoring eyesight and rejuvenating organs.
Data science
fromMedium
1 week ago

In-Silico Perturbation Meets Single-Cell Foundation Models: From Zero-Shot Potential to Fine-Tuned...

In-silico perturbation simulates cellular state changes, but biological trustworthiness remains a challenge despite advancements in single-cell foundation models.
from24/7 Wall St.
1 week ago

5 Biotechs That Big Pharma Could Snap Up as Oncology M&A Heats Up

Incyte tops this list due to its rare combination of commercial scale, cash generation, and pipeline depth. The company posted FY2025 revenue of $5.14 billion, up 21.2% YoY, anchored by Jakafi generating $828.2 million in Q4 2025 alone (+7% YoY) and Opzelura delivering $207.3 million (+28% YoY). With $3.58 billion in cash and 14 pivotal clinical trials underway, Incyte offers an acquirer immediate revenue, margin expansion potential, and a deep oncology pipeline spanning KRASG12D, CDK2 inhibition, and mutCALR.
Venture
#gene-editing
Medicine
fromArs Technica
5 days ago

Clinical trial shows gene editing works for -Thalassaemia, too

An improved gene editing system reactivates a fetal hemoglobin gene to treat β-Thalassaemia, building on CRISPR's success with sickle-cell anemia.
Medicine
fromArs Technica
5 days ago

Clinical trial shows gene editing works for -Thalassaemia, too

An improved gene editing system reactivates a fetal hemoglobin gene to treat β-Thalassaemia, building on CRISPR's success with sickle-cell anemia.
#organoids
fromNature
1 week ago
Science

Brain organoids are a transformative technology - but they need regulation

Science
fromNature
1 week ago

Brain organoids are a transformative technology - but they need regulation

Organoids offer significant benefits for research and medicine, necessitating the establishment of ethical boundaries for their use.
Cancer
fromNews Center
5 days ago

Long Non-Coding RNA May be a Promising Therapeutic Target for Cancer - News Center

A long non-coding RNA, IGF1R-AS1, activates oncogenic pathways in prostate cancer, highlighting its potential as a therapeutic target.
Medicine
fromTNW | Opinion
3 days ago

AI health tech is booming. The cures are not.

AI in drug discovery shows promise but has not yet delivered significant breakthroughs for patients.
Cancer
fromNature
1 week ago

New drugs take aim at one of cancer's deadliest mutations

Researchers are developing innovative strategies to target the cancer-causing KRAS protein, previously deemed 'undruggable', showing promising results in clinical trials.
#cloning
Science
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

A Startup Has Been Quietly Pitching Cloned Human Bodies to Transfer Your Brain Into

Cloning efforts have evolved from animals to controversial human embryo models, with ambitions for brainless human clones for organ transplants.
OMG science
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

Scientists Cloned a Mouse, Then Cloned the Clone, Et Cetera. The Results Were Horrific

Cloning mice for 58 generations led to immediate death of offspring, revealing limits to mammalian cloning.
OMG science
fromNature
3 weeks ago

Can a mouse be cloned indefinitely? Decades-long experiment has answers

Asexual reproduction in mice is unsustainable due to accumulating mutations, limiting the potential for successful cloning.
Science
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

A Startup Has Been Quietly Pitching Cloned Human Bodies to Transfer Your Brain Into

Cloning efforts have evolved from animals to controversial human embryo models, with ambitions for brainless human clones for organ transplants.
OMG science
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

Scientists Cloned a Mouse, Then Cloned the Clone, Et Cetera. The Results Were Horrific

Cloning mice for 58 generations led to immediate death of offspring, revealing limits to mammalian cloning.
OMG science
fromNature
3 weeks ago

Can a mouse be cloned indefinitely? Decades-long experiment has answers

Asexual reproduction in mice is unsustainable due to accumulating mutations, limiting the potential for successful cloning.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

Could data from 100 million species help cure disease? One startup is betting on it | Fortune

Basecamp Research launches the Trillion Gene Atlas to map genetic diversity across 100 million species, aiming to expand biological knowledge 100-fold through AI-powered genomic data collection.
#cancer-research
Cancer
fromNature
1 week ago

Why some cancer-fighting immune cells lose their strength inside tumours

Mitochondrial health in dendritic cells is crucial for effective immune response against tumors, potentially enhancing cancer immunotherapy effectiveness.
Cancer
fromNature
1 week ago

Why some cancer-fighting immune cells lose their strength inside tumours

Mitochondrial health in dendritic cells is crucial for effective immune response against tumors, potentially enhancing cancer immunotherapy effectiveness.
fromwww.nature.com
1 week ago

Engineered immunosuppressive dendritic cells protect against cardiac remodelling

Chronic inflammation is a central driver of pathological fibrosis after ischaemic or haemodynamic stress, but strategies that locally rebalance injurious and reparative immune responses without systemic immunosuppression are lacking.
Medicine
Medicine
fromNature
1 week ago

Saturation editing of RNU4-2 reveals distinct dominant and recessive disorders - Nature

De novo variants in RNU4-2 cause ReNU syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by developmental delays and other severe symptoms.
Higher education
fromCornell Chronicle
1 month ago

Stem-cell registry drive will mobilize campus to save lives | Cornell Chronicle

Cornell is hosting a stem-cell donor campaign March 13-20 to recruit 10,000 participants aged 18-35 for the national registry, addressing critical shortages of Black and Latino donors needed for patients like Max Uribe.
Science
fromNature
3 weeks ago

Zombieland: Genome transplant brings 'dead' bacteria back to life

Researchers have revived 'dead' bacterial cells by replacing their DNA with a working genome from another species, advancing genome engineering.
Medicine
fromTNW | Health-Tech
1 week ago

HexemBio raises $10.4M for a stem cell rejuvenation therapy

HexemBio develops a blood stem cell rejuvenation therapy using a recreated embryonic environment, targeting bone marrow transplants for blood cancers.
Medicine
fromABC7 San Francisco
6 days ago

Stanford Medicine Cancer Center to launch proton therapy system for targeted cancer treatment

Stanford Medicine is launching a compact proton therapy system that improves tumor treatment by minimizing radiation exposure to surrounding healthy tissue.
Science
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

Scientists Bring Mouse Brains Back to Life After "Cryosleep" Deep Freeze

Researchers are advancing towards cryosleep by restoring activity in mouse brains using vitrification, potentially aiding organ preservation and brain injury recovery.
#ai
Medicine
fromFast Company
1 week ago

AI is coming for superbugs

AI can significantly enhance antibiotic discovery, addressing the urgent global health crisis of antibiotic resistance.
Medicine
fromFast Company
1 week ago

AI is coming for superbugs

AI can significantly enhance antibiotic discovery, addressing the urgent global health crisis of antibiotic resistance.
Silicon Valley
fromKqed
1 month ago

How South San Francisco Became the Birthplace of Biotechnology | KQED

South San Francisco transformed from an industrial meatpacking and steel manufacturing hub into the world's biotechnology capital, hosting over 250 biotech companies including Genentech.
#biological-computing
OMG science
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom. Should we be worried?

Scientists have created biological computers using lab-grown human brain cells that learn to play video games, demonstrating neural tissue can process information and adapt behavior in digital environments.
Science
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

Staff at New Data Center Powered by Human Brain Cells Need to Swap Out Cerebrospinal Fluid Every Day

Cortical Labs' biological computers require constant replenishment of cerebrospinal fluid and have unique operational needs compared to traditional data centers.
OMG science
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom. Should we be worried?

Scientists have created biological computers using lab-grown human brain cells that learn to play video games, demonstrating neural tissue can process information and adapt behavior in digital environments.
Science
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

Staff at New Data Center Powered by Human Brain Cells Need to Swap Out Cerebrospinal Fluid Every Day

Cortical Labs' biological computers require constant replenishment of cerebrospinal fluid and have unique operational needs compared to traditional data centers.
#car-t-cell-therapy
Science
fromNature
4 weeks ago

Synthetic circuits for cell ratio control - Nature

Synthetic biology enables artificial cell differentiation and division of labor by engineering genetic and epigenetic circuits that mimic natural stem cell asymmetric division processes.
Medicine
fromNature
2 weeks ago

Eye drops made from pig semen deliver cancer treatment to mice

Pig semen-derived eye drops can halt retinal tumor growth and preserve vision in mice, offering a potential treatment for retinoblastoma in children.
Medicine
fromHarvard Gazette
3 weeks ago

Study suggests healing skin without scarring may be possible - Harvard Gazette

Researchers have discovered a way to reactivate embryonic skin regeneration mechanisms in mice, potentially allowing for scar-free healing in humans.
#cryopreservation
fromNature
3 weeks ago

Masked mitochondria slip into cells to treat disease in mice

When mitochondria are exposed to tissue or blood, they lose the electrical gradient across their outer membrane. Mitochondria that lack such a gradient are recognized by a cell's internal machinery as damaged and quickly destroyed. The vast majority of previous studies involved injecting 'naked' mitochondria directly into the bloodstream or tissue sites, but the approach isn't very efficient, so researchers often have to use 'ridiculous' doses of mitochondria.
Medicine
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

NIH ends fetal tissue research

January 22, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm The National Institutes of Health's move to end support for research using fetal human tissue is clearly a political decision, not a scientific one, one expert says By Dan Vergano edited by Claire Cameron National Institutes of Health director Jay Bhattacharya speaks at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C., in 2025.
US politics
Science
fromNature
1 month ago

From cancer to Alzheimer's: could a renewed focus on energy transform biomedicine?

Energy flow, governed by universal physics principles, provides a more fundamental understanding of biological processes and disease than molecular mechanisms alone.
Medicine
fromwww.bbc.com
3 weeks ago

Lab-grown food pipe offers new hope for young patients

Scientists have successfully grown and transplanted fully functioning food pipes in mini pigs, offering hope for patients with oesophageal conditions.
Cancer
fromNature
1 month ago

Cancer blood tests are everywhere. Do they really work?

Multi-cancer early detection blood tests show promise but lack regulatory approval and rigorous trial evidence, with initial results indicating limited effectiveness in improving cancer outcomes.
Cancer
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Bacteria Engineered to Eat Tumors From the Inside

Researchers engineered Clostridium sporogenes bacteria to consume tumor cells from inside, offering a potential alternative to traditional cancer treatments.
fromwww.nature.com
1 month ago

Genetically encoded assembly recorder temporally resolves cellular history

GEMINI leverages a computationally designed protein assembly as an intracellular memory device to record the history of individual cells. GEMINI grows predictably within live cells, capturing cellular events as tree-ring-like fluorescent patterns for imaging-based retrospective readout. Absolute chronological information of activity histories is attainable with hour-level accuracy.
OMG science
fromHarvard Gazette
2 months ago

Why did that cancer cell become drug-resistant? - Harvard Gazette

TimeVault records and stores cellular gene-expression history inside living cells, enabling retrieval of past gene-activity information to study differentiation, stress responses, adaptation, and drug resistance.
Science
fromScienceDaily
1 month ago

Scientists reverse muscle aging in mice and discover a surprising catch

Aging muscle stem cells accumulate NDRG1 protein that slows repair but enhances survival, representing a trade-off between functionality and longevity rather than simple decline.
#stem-cell-therapy
fromNature
1 month ago
Science

Daily briefing: Stem-cell treatment strengthens people with age-related frailty

Medicine
fromNature
1 month ago

Inside Mexico's stem-cell industry

Stem cell clinics in Mexico offer unapproved treatments at lower costs than the US, despite lacking rigorous safety and efficacy evidence from large clinical trials.
fromNature
1 month ago
Science

Daily briefing: Stem-cell treatment strengthens people with age-related frailty

fromNature
2 months ago

Microbiota-induced T cell plasticity enables immune-mediated tumour control - Nature

Although specific bacterial taxa have been associated with favourable clinical responses to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) in cancer patients12,13,18,19,20,21,22, the mechanisms by which the intestinal microbiota influences anti-tumour immune responses remain poorly defined. Products of the microbiota, including metabolites23,24,25 and innate receptor ligands26, may reprogramme myeloid cells27, lowering the activation threshold for antigen presentation and thereby facilitating priming and activation of tumour-reactive T cells.
Cancer
Medicine
fromNews Center
1 month ago

Trashing Cancer's 'Undruggable' Proteins - News Center

Northwestern scientists developed protein-like polymers that direct cancer-driving proteins to cellular degradation machinery, causing cancer cell death and tumor growth inhibition.
Cancer
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Douglas Hanahan, biologist: We don't necessarily need a cure, what we really need is cancer without disease'

Cancer cells acquire hallmarks: uncontrolled proliferation, evasion of growth barriers, resistance to programmed death, and relative immortality, driving tumor diversity and treatment variability.
Science
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Lab-Grown Brains Growing More Powerful

Lab-grown brain organoids can now process information in real time and solve complex engineering problems, marking a major advancement in neuroscience research.
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

Now is not the time to defund human fetal tissue research

Restricting federal funding for human fetal tissue research will impede development of replacement technologies and slow discovery of new medicines.
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

Daily briefing: Cancer cells stay hidden using stolen mitochondria

Cancer cells acquire immune-cell mitochondria that activate a mitochondrial pathway enabling immune evasion and lymph-node invasion.
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

Cancer might evade immune defences by stealing mitochondria

Cancer cells acquire mitochondria from immune cells to weaken those immune cells and activate type I interferon signaling that promotes lymph-node invasion.
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

A 'time capsule for cells' stores the secret experiences of their past

Engineered TimeVaults capture and store cellular mRNA to continuously record past transcriptional activity, enabling retrospective study of cellular history and responses.
Medicine
fromNature
1 month ago

World-first stem-cell therapy shows promise for treating spina bifida in the womb

Placenta-derived stem cells applied to exposed fetal spinal cords during in utero surgery show safety and reverse hindbrain herniation in myelomeningocele cases.
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

Developmental convergence and divergence in human stem cell models of autism - Nature

Distinct rare mutations and common genetic variation jointly shape ASD risk, yet convergent molecular pathology and early fetal neurodevelopmental mechanisms can be studied using stem-cell models.
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

Temporal tissue dynamics from a spatial snapshot - Nature

Cell population dynamics drive physiological and pathological processes, but human in vivo measurement is limited, requiring new single-cell approaches to infer temporal changes.
fromNature
1 month ago

AI tools can design genomes. Will they upend how life evolves?

Biology is undergoing a transformation. After centuries of studying life as it evolves naturally, researchers are now using a combination of computation and genome engineering to intervene, generating new proteins and even whole bacteria from scratch. The use of artificial-intelligence tools to design biological components, an approach known as generative biology, is set to turbocharge this area of research. Just last year, scientists used AI-assisted design to produce artificial genes that can be expressed in mammalian cells.
Science
fromIndependent
2 months ago

Everyone's talking about: Stem cell beauty treatments - what do they involve and do they work?

'Stem cell-based' treatments and just the latest aesthetic treatment marketed to those seeking to maintain or obtain youthful skin, but what exactly is involved and what's the evidence that they work It's hard to keep track of the number of scientifically based beauty treatments on offer these days. Most are aimed at middle-aged females with disposable incomes, who are willing to splash large amounts of money on their skin to counter the effects of time.
Medicine
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Have we leapt into commercial genetic testing without understanding it?

Martschenko's argument is largely that genetic research and data have almost always been used thus far as a justification to further entrench extant social inequalities. But we know the solutions to many of the injustices in our world-trying to lift people out of poverty, for example-and we certainly don't need more genetic research to implement them. Trejo's point is largely that more information is generally better than less.
Science
Science
fromwww.nature.com
2 months ago

Scalable and multiplexed recorders of gene regulation dynamics across weeks

CytoTape enables multiplexed, genetically encoded, spatiotemporally scalable recording of gene regulation dynamics in single cells for up to three weeks with minute-scale resolution.
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

'Remote controlled' proteins illuminate living cells

Engineered magnetically sensitive fluorescent proteins enable remote modulation of brightness in cells and animals, offering quantum-based control for biosensors and potential therapies.
Medicine
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

These 4 promising breakthroughs are bringing HIV researchers closer to a cure - LGBTQ Nation

Significant scientific advances have produced promising combination therapies and experimental approaches that have eliminated HIV in rare cases but no widely scalable cure exists yet.
Medicine
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Their Mutated Genes Were Supposed to Be Harmless

People who carry single-gene mutations for disorders like thalassemia can experience real health effects, including lethargy and fainting, despite being labeled asymptomatic.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

Lung cancer hijacks the brain to trick the immune system

For years, scientists have viewed cancer as a localized glitch in which cells refuse to stop dividing. But a new study suggests that, in certain organs, tumors actively communicate with the brain to trick it into protecting them. Scientists have long known that nerves grow into some tumors and that tumors containing lots of nerves usually lead to a worse prognosis.
Science
Medicine
fromNature
2 months ago

Atlas-guided discovery of transcription factors for T cell programming - Nature

Transcription factors determine CD8+ T cell states; identifying TFs that promote tissue-resident memory versus terminal exhaustion enables engineering of more effective adoptive T cell therapies.
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

Construction of complex and diverse DNA sequences using DNA three-way junctions - Nature

DNA writing remains limited by short oligo synthesis and two-way junction assembly methods, hindering affordable, scalable construction of large, complex synthetic DNA.
Science
fromMail Online
2 months ago

Scientists use AI to create a virus never seen before

Scientists used AI and gene-assembly tools to create Evo-Φ2147, a novel 11-gene virus designed to kill pathogenic E. coli.
Science
fromScienceDaily
2 months ago

Vitamin A may be helping cancer hide from the immune system

Retinoic acid signaling in cancer cells and dendritic cells suppresses anti-tumor immunity, and blocking this pathway restores vaccine effectiveness.
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