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Northside Hospital is now the only place in Georgia offering a groundbreaking cellular therapy for a rare cancer that often strikes people under 30. The FDA-approved treatment uses patients' own immune cells to fight synovial sarcoma when traditional chemotherapy stops working.
Researchers created a new system that targets healthy mitochondria to damaged cells, offering hope for treating diseases like optic nerve damage and heart failure. In tests, transplanted mitochondria helped dying neurons survive.
Researchers created a breakthrough system that delivers healthy mitochondria to specific diseased cells, offering hope for conditions like optic nerve damage and heart failure. Early tests show the transplanted cellular powerhouses helped damaged neurons survive.
Researchers discovered how to disguise healthy mitochondria so they can slip into diseased cells undetected, extending the lives of mice with a fatal genetic disorder. The breakthrough could one day help children born with rare mitochondrial diseases.
Researchers at Washington University have engineered brain cells to hunt down and destroy Alzheimer's plaques with just a single injection. In mice, the treatment completely prevented plaques when given early and cut existing plaques in half.
The FDA just approved a groundbreaking clinical trial that could actually reverse aging at the cellular level. Scientists will test whether they can reset human cells to a younger state, bringing one of medicine's biggest theories out of the lab and into real patients.
Researchers at UMass Amherst developed two breakthrough methods that either eliminate cancer-causing proteins or reprogram diseased cells back to health. These flexible platform technologies could treat cancer and many other diseases with fewer side effects.