In an interview, synthetic biologist Peter Carr explains research on synthetic cells, their potential benefits and hazards, ...

An engineered stem cell therapy reversed new-onset Type 1 diabetes in mice by shifting the immune system away from attacking ...

Biopharmaceutical developers should introduce risk-based, phase-appropriate characterization strategies for quality control ...

Allogeneic cell-based immunotherapies generated from pluripotent stem cells show considerable promise for the treatment of oncological, autoimmune, and viral diseases, however discovery platforms for ...

Suicide gene therapy for recurrent glioblastoma using allogeneic bone marrow–derived mesenchymal stem cell gene delivery (MSC/CD): A first-in-human, dose-escalation phase I clinical trial. Comparative ...

Scientists at Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered that large pieces of DNA can transfer directly between human cells, and the DNA can persist and ...

Deadline first reports on Reset, a survival thriller directed by Matt Smukler (Wildflower) that will head into production in August. The film will star both Priyanka Chopra Jonas (The Bluff) and ...

The New York Blood Center Enterprises and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub are collaborating to derive induced pluripotent stem cell lines from cord blood, using NYBCe’s inventory of over 30,000 units, ...

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Years before he conducted the research that would earn him a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, Shinya Yamanaka, MD, Ph.D., was a postdoctoral scientist at Gladstone Institutes, studying genes.

Cancer cells can disarm the immune system not just by hiding from it, but by actively reprogramming nearby immune cells into a suppressed state. This previously unrecognized molecular interaction, ...