In June, 2025, the Wellcome Trust announced an ambitious £10 million UK project called the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) and claimed it “will unlock a deeper understanding of life, leading to ...
Some genetic mutations that are expected to completely stop a gene from working surprisingly cause only mild or even no ...
Louis was the first patient at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia — outside of a clinical trial — to get a new FDA-approved treatment. It involves collecting his stem cells, which are then ...
Researchers create 'living' polymers that grow, degrow, and reprogram their properties after fabrication using reversible chemistry and light-activated catalysts.
After nearly 40 years of research on how Listeria bacteria manipulate our cells and battle our immune system to cause ...
Black History Month is poignant for one family after a man got a historic, innovative treatment at Children's Hospital of.
Ever since 6-year-old Emily Whitehead became the first pediatric patient to receive CAR-T cell therapy in 2012, when T cells ...
Integrative analysis of immune ecotypes in skin cancers highlights metabolic reprogramming and macrophage polarization as key ...
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine has gone in this eighteenth edition to Carl June ...
Scientists uncover a new “recipe” that shows how exhausted T cells can be reprogrammed to regain their ability to attack tumors.
Age-related memory decline and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's are often thought of as irreversible. But the ...
When food is scarce, stress hormones direct the immune system to operate in "low power" mode to preserve immune function ...