First-in-human pilot trial improves stem cell collection and delivery for sickle cell gene therapy

Patients with sickle cell disease are often hesitant to undergo transformative gene therapy—the current lengthy process ...

22 million human immune cells help decode context-dependent gene circuits

Scientists from Gladstone Institutes, UC San Francisco and Stanford University, in collaboration with Biohub, have unveiled a ...

Researchers develop hydrogels to create a programmable niche for blood stem cells

A research team from Tel Aviv University and the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden (IPF), led by Ayala Lampel and ...
Managed Healthcare Executive

Younger, more mismatched stem cell donors show favorable outcomes in ACCESS trial

Stem cell transplants from younger, more mismatched unrelated donors showed favorable one-year outcomes in a new ACCESS trial ...
Science Daily

Supercharged “natural killer” cells could be a powerful new cancer weapon

Researchers have found a way to supercharge natural killer cells, powerful immune cells that can attack cancer, so they can ...
Duke Today

Lab-Grown Eye Cells Offer Way to Protect Vision

The most encouraging results came from studies in mice with damaged retinal blood vessels. When the lab-grown human cells ...
MIT Technology Review

Amping up T cells to target cancer

By using mRNA molecules to “remodel” parts of the immune system, researchers generated T cells that can slow the growth of ...

Researchers develop scalable method to generate key immune cells for cancer therapy

Researchers at the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Boston University (BU) have developed a scalable method for generating CD4+ helper T cells from induced ...