Test time has arrived: the first person has been treated in a highly anticipated gene therapy trial that aims to coax aged ...

Pluristyx, a leading provider of advanced induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technologies and proprietary, genetically engineered solutions, today announced the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) issued a ...

Promising mouse studies and billions of dollars in funding are stoking excitement. But we’ve been here before.

Now he has a company that is trying to change the way we think about the so-called dark genome or noncoding DNA. Previously ...

Researchers at Tianjin First Central Hospital took fat cells from the woman who had been living with Type 1 diabetes for over ...

A mature cell of one type can be turned into a mature cell of another type without the cell having to pass through an earlier stage of development. This is called direct reprogramming, a reliable but ...

Scientists have launched a human trial testing gene therapy that could make aging cells behave like younger ones.

A team led by researchers has discovered that a group of cells located in the skin and other areas of the body, called neural crest stem cells, are the source of reprogrammed neurons found by other ...

In order to reprogram readily available cells into specific immune cells that fight various diseases, one must know the "recipe" for the transformation. Researchers at Lund University have now created ...

Cardiovascular disease continues to lead as the primary cause of death across the globe, taking millions of lives every year. Damage caused by these diseases is particularly difficult to repair, since ...

A participant in a landmark clinical trial has been given a cellular-reprogramming treatment that aims to rejuvenate damaged ...