Scientists Transform Beating Heart Stem Cells into Brain Cells
University of Virginia researchers and partners were able to cause stem cells that were on their way to becoming heart cells to alter course and become future brain cells by turning off a single gene.
27th Annual Meeting of Asia-Pacific Blood and Marrow Transplantation Group
The Asia Pacific Blood and Marrow Transplantation group has requested the partnership of the Indian Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (ISBMT) for holding its Annual Congress in 2022 (APBMT 2022).
New Tool to Create Hearing Cells Lost in Aging
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a single master gene that programs ear hair cells into either outer or inner ones, overcoming a major hurdle that had prevented the development of these cells to restore hearing, according to new research published in Nature.
In Animal Studies, Gene Therapy Shows Promise for Spinal Cord Injury Pain
An experimental gene therapy for spinal cord pain shows promise in mice, researchers say.
Stem cells could help prevent diabetes onset from cancer immunotherapy
Japanese researchers have shown that stem cell therapy could prevent type 1 diabetes in mice. Type 1 diabetes can be a severe side effect of some types of cancer treatment.
Car T-cell therapy shows early promise in treating gastric cancers
An experimental cancer therapy that infuses designer immune cells into patients has shown early promise in a clinical trial by shrinking tumours in the digestive system.
