Here’s our handpicked selection of the best interviews, blog posts, popular articles, and breaking biotech news of the last two weeks: Want a systemat...
James Peyer: Where are stem cell therapies headed?
Someday soon we may be able to replace tissues or entire organs with those grown from a patients’ own stem cells… but just how soon? What ...
Research roundup: Muscles from the lab, and more
We know you want to keep up with the relentless march of progress, but sometimes it’s just too relentless. So why not forget all those endlessly...
Are cancer prevention and cellular reprogramming really enemies?
Imagine a physiological love triangle: in one corner, a force with the weight of millions of years of evolutionary programming trained on preventing r...
The Hallmarks of Aging: Epigenetic Alterations
All cells in your body have the same DNA, yet they express different proteins and do different things. How does that happen? Various alterations in y...
Cheat codes for youthful cells
For much of the 20th century, the prevailing wisdom was that once cells were fully differentiated, their identities were crystallized eternally–...
Flip this epigenome: Making old mice good as new
Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies knew it could be done in principle–all you had to do to erase the telltale signs of agin...