March 23, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – Researchers are hoping that they can grow a patient’s own iPS cells into an array of healthy cells to treat diseases that now have no cure. Among them, a team at the National Institutes of Health … Read More
March 16, 2023
(Nature) – In a technical “tour de force”, researchers have analysed multiple traits of individual cells to pinpoint those that give rise to crucial components of the human brain. The analysis, published on 16 March in Cell1, uses a combination … Read More
March 15, 2023
(Medical Xpress) – For the first time, scientists have created baby mice from two males. This raises the distant possibility of using the same technique for people—although experts caution that very few mouse embryos developed into live mouse pups and … Read More
March 10, 2023
(The New Yorker) – You could call the bottle’s contents Biomilq, or maybe just milk, or, as the engineer did—indicating a number of smaller bottles also stowed in the freezer—“our best shots to date.” The frozen puck represented a week … Read More
March 9, 2023
(The Guardian) – Scientists have created mice with two biological fathers by generating eggs from male cells, a development that opens up radical new possibilities for reproduction. The advance could ultimately pave the way for treatments for severe forms of … Read More
March 2, 2023
(Vice) – In a new article published on Tuesday in Frontiers, a large international collaboration led by researchers at John Hopkins University (JHU) details how brain-machine technologies are the newest frontier in biocomputing, and provides a roadmap as to how … Read More
February 20, 2023
(Medical Xpress) – A man who underwent a stem cell transplant to treat his cancer is showing “strong evidence” that the procedure also cured him of HIV—the latest in a handful of cases doctors have reported. The patient, a man … Read More
February 14, 2023
(STAT News) – These brain models were a useful tool to better understand conditions such as autism and schizophrenia, which could help researchers develop and test new treatments. But the work raised profound questions. What happens if brain organoids become … Read More
February 2, 2023
(Wired) – In search of a better method, last week Helmrath and his colleagues announced in the journal Nature Biotechnology that they had transplanted tiny, three-dimensional balls of human intestinal tissue into mice. After several weeks, these spheres—known as organoids—developed key features … Read More
January 23, 2023
Hastings Center Report (vol. 52, Issue S2, 2022) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Clarifying the Ethics and Oversight of Chimeric Research” by Josephine Johnston, et al. “Composite Animals: Then and Now” by Amy Hinterberger “Human, Nonhuman, and … Read More
