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Adam Feinberg | Via Carnegie Mellon University |
January 12, 2026
A Carnegie Mellon University-led team has received up to $28.5 million to develop a functional, 3D bioprinted liver for patients with acute liver failure. The temporary, immune-compatible liver is designed to support the regeneration of a patient’s own liver, reducing the need for full organ transplants. A Carnegie Mellon University-led team has secured an award [...]
Kelly Stevens | Via Carnegie Mellon University |
January 12, 2026
A Carnegie Mellon University-led team has received up to $28.5 million to develop a functional, 3D bioprinted liver for patients with acute liver failure. The temporary, immune-compatible liver is designed to support the regeneration of a patient’s own liver, reducing the need for full organ transplants. A Carnegie Mellon University-led team has secured an award [...]
Helen Blau | Via Scitech Daily |
January 3, 2026
A treatment that blocks an age-related protein restored cartilage in aging and injured joints by reprogramming existing cells rather than using stem cells. Researchers at Stanford Medicine report that blocking a protein linked to aging can restore cartilage that naturally wears away in the knees of older mice. In the study, the injectable treatment not [...]
Joseph Wu | Via Science Daily |
December 27, 2025
Researchers have discovered why mRNA COVID-19 vaccines can occasionally trigger heart inflammation. Researchers at Stanford Medicine have identified the biological steps that explain how mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines can, in rare cases, lead to heart inflammation in some adolescent and young adult males. Their work also points to a potential strategy for lowering that risk. By [...]
Lilianne Mujica-Parodi | Via Nature |
December 18, 2025
Innovative research and high-tech imaging offer new hope for preserving cognition without medication. Almost 60 million people live with dementia around the world — and every year, another 10 million are diagnosed. “Cognitive impairment is the norm, not the exception,” says Lilianne Mujica-Parodi, who leads the Laboratory for Computational Neurodiagnostics at Stony Brook University (SBU). [...]
Dan Duda | Via Houston Methodist |
December 15, 2025
Scientists have identified a promising strategy to improve liver cancer immunotherapy: targeting B-cells. While immunotherapy has transformed cancer treatment by activating T-cells—a type of immune cell that fights cancerous cells—many patients still fail to respond. New research shows that B-cells—another type of immune cells that fight infections—may play a surprising role in limiting immunotherapy’s effectiveness. [...]
Rakesh Jain | Via Science Friday |
December 10, 2025
In cancer research, the “seed and soil” hypothesis posits that the tumor is like a seed of misbehaving cells taking root in the body. Whether it grows—and where it grows—depends on the conditions, or soil. Since this hypothesis was proposed more than 100 years ago, most research and treatments have focused on the seed, or [...]
Anne Plant | Via Issues in Science and Technology |
December 9, 2025
Despite calls to fund reproducibility studies, resources would be better spent on developing tools that enable efficient collection and sharing of experimental protocol details and metadata to enable study comparisons. At a meeting of the American Society of Cell Biology in 2012, I sat in a packed meeting room. The speaker was Glenn Begley, author [...]
Dipanjan Pan | Via New Beauty |
November 17, 2025
As reported by Contemporary OB/GYN, scientists have developed a “groundbreaking” test to discover endometriosis using menstrual blood—reducing the typical diagnosis time from years to minutes. The next-generation technology is capable of identifying HMGB1 in period blood, which may be used as a biomarker for endometriosis, a chronic and often painful disease where the lining of [...]
Natalie Artzi | Via Harvard University |
November 12, 2025
Switching on an immune pathway in cancer cells with a new mRNA therapy reprograms the immune system in complex tumor environments to launch a broader attack Cancer cells develop various strategies to paralyze immune cells to evade their attack in the complex tumor microenvironment (TME). Using one such strategy, they cripple their own production of [...]
Shalini Prasad | Via amPulmonary |
November 4, 2025
Researchers from the University of Texas at Dallas recently developed biosensor technology that may be able to detect lung cancer. The research team incorporated artificial intelligence (AI) into the device with the goal to identify cancer earlier and more easily using breath analysis. “We built a screening tool that could allow physicians to catch the [...]
Rory A. Cooper | Via University of Pittsburgh |
November 4, 2025
The University of Pittsburgh announced at a Nov. 4 press conference a groundbreaking effort that could redefine mobility for wheelchair users. Researchers at the Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL), a collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, have been awarded up to $41.5 million from the Advanced Research Projects [...]
Ioannis Yannas | Via MIT |
October 27, 2025
A beloved member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering for nearly 60 years, Yannas helped saved the lives of thousands of burn victims through his research and innovation. Professor Ioannis V. Yannas SM ’59, a physical chemist and engineer known for the invention of artificial skin for the treatment of severe burns, and a longtime [...]
Priyabrata Mukherjee | Via University of Oklahoma |
October 24, 2025
Citing a background of innovative cancer research, the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) has elected OU’s Priyabrata Mukherjee, Ph.D., as a foreign fellow. His fellowship will begin Jan. 1, 2026. Mukherjee is a tenured professor of pathology at the OU College of Medicine whose work focuses on tumor microenvironments and the interactions between proteins and [...]
Yubin Zhou | Via SSBCrack News |
October 23, 2025
In a significant breakthrough in cancer research, scientists from the Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Texas A&M Health) have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that fuels the growth of a rare and aggressive form of kidney cancer, known as translocation renal cell carcinoma (tRCC). This discovery, detailed in a recent study published in Nature [...]
Daniel Fletcher | Via UC Berkeley |
October 21, 2025
The National Academy of Medicine has added two UC Berkeley faculty members to its ranks of scholars, the academy announced Monday. Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine, recognizing individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. Mobile phone-based microscopy Daniel [...]
Heidi Mansour | Via Florida International University |
October 20, 2025
Biomedical Engineering professor Dr. Mansour has been inducted as a Full Member into the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL). Inductees are selected based on outstanding research contributions and innovations in the fields of science, engineering, or medicine. Full Membership is reserved for individuals who have achieved the highest recognition and impact [...]
Pamela Woodard | Via WUSTL |
October 20, 2025
Pamela K. Woodard, MD, director of WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR), was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. One of the highest honors in medicine, membership in the Academy recognizes outstanding professional achievement. Woodard is a renowned physician-scientist, having made significant advancements in translating cardiac imaging techniques into humans. These accomplishments include [...]
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