A Phase I clinical trial published in The Lancet has shown that combining stem cell therapy with standard fetal surgery before birth is a safe and promising approach to treat myelomeningocele, a severe form of spina bifida.
Learn how a new laser-based therapy is giving patients with aggressive brain cancer a stronger chance at survival.
Learn more about Pico-C, a tool that helps reveal the genome’s structure during the first days of life.
ZURICH, Feb. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Polaroid Therapeutics (PTx) today announces that POLTX_Fiber™ has received the CE Mark as a Class IIb medical device with APT™ (Antimicrobial Polymer Technology).
As people age, it becomes harder to know who is on track for healthy years ahead and who may be at higher risk for serious decline. A new study suggests that part of the answer may already be circulating in the bloodstream.
Learn how reseachers are working to engineer certain bacteria to consume tumors.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AEYE Health, the leader in ophthalmic AI and retinal diagnostics and the developer of AEYE-DS, the fastest growing solution for diabetic eye exams in the U.S., today announced the publication of a landmark study in BMJ Innovations.
Researchers at EPFL, Heidelberg University and Roche have built a human mini-bladder to show how urine composition weakens bladder tissue, helping infections recur even after antibiotics. The work was led by John McKinney (EPFL) Matthias Lütolf (Roche Institute of Human Biology/EPFL), and Vivek Thacker (Heidelberg University) and is now published in Nature Communications.
Neuroscientist Soha Farboud of the Donders Institute at Radboud University has succeeded in adjusting activity in specific brain areas using a new technique. With ultrasonic brain stimulation, she was able to influence whether people chose to look left or right. A key advantage of ultrasound is that, unlike existing methods, it can safely reach deep brain regions from outside the skull.
Subtle changes in how blood flows through the brain and how brain tissue uses oxygen may be closely linked to Alzheimer’s disease risk, according to new research from the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.