Innovation Stories
- Scientists create the first human-pig embryo, and consider the possibility of growing human organs in animals for transplantation.
- New research has found that many cells remain alive after the body dies, and this research may have implications for everything from cancer research to life expansion.
- Two babies in London were cured of their leukemia by using genetically modified T Cells harvested from donor blood.
- New research from London has figured out a way to preserve our immune system's defenses against the virus, perhaps paving the way for an eventual cure.
- Scientists may be able to cure diabetes by growing your healthy pancreas in another animal and then transplanting it back to you.
- A collaborative team of scientists have developed a test for Zika virus that is faster and more accurate than those currently available.
- A vaccine for genital herpes could stop both that STD and HIV from spreading.
- New research has uncovered how pancreatic cancer tumors grow.
- Research shows that a new HIV-neutralizing antibody is tolerable and effective in humans.
- A malaria treatment has helped to stabilize an "untreatable" brain tumor in a 26-year-old patient.
- New research suggests that the appendix may not be the useless organ we thought, but instead may play a role in the digestive system.
- New research has investigated how HIV evades the body's natural defenses; the information may be useful someday in developing treatment options.