by Peace Chukwu | Jul 6, 2023
Imagine slowly losing control of your body and the muscles necessary to live healthily, until you eventually lose your ability to breathe. This disease is known as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, and is caused by the degeneration of motor neurons that send...
by Don Gibbons | May 25, 2023
A recent Wall Street Journal article reminded me of the work of someone I came to know well while at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM): Jeanne Loring of the Scripps Research Institute. The article detailed a cell therapy for Parkinson’s Disease...
by Francesco Zangari | May 10, 2023
CRISPR-Cas9 is not only a revolutionary technology, it is also a topic that never ceases to intrigue. From gene editing to agriculture, the possibilities are seemingly endless. In medicine, CRISPR-Cas9 has shown promising results in curing genetic blood disorders and...
by Don Gibbons | May 4, 2023
For people like me working in the biological science sector, the annual DNA Day (every April 25th) is always a cause to raise a toast, but this year was special. It marked the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the double helix by Watson and Crick (and Franklin) and...
by Sara M. Nolte | Apr 18, 2023
One of the major limitations of using stem cell donors is the challenge of finding an adequate match, which is why I always get excited about therapies that use a patient’s own tissue. But why is the issue of a “match” such a big deal? You may have come across terms...
by Laine Bodnar | Mar 23, 2023
OpenAI’s recent release of GPT-4 has made headlines in the last week. It is the latest version of the large language model that powers its popular artificial intelligence (AI) chat bot: ChatGPT. Passing the U.S. bar exam is one of its notable accomplishments. Plus,...
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