Much was promised in the late 1990s, but the challenge of advances such as growing whole human organs has been difficult to deliver, writes Simon Roach ...

The European Medicines Agency’s Human Medicines Committee (CHMP) on Friday issued a negative opinion for Omeros Corp.’s OMER ...

UCI Health, the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine, has opened the world's first in-human embryonic stem cell-derived clinical trial for Huntington's disease.

Pleased to announce the first patient has been dosed in our Phase 1 clinical trial, evaluating our lead candidate for optic ...

For most of medicine’s history, blood has been treated as a delivery system that carries oxygen, nutrients and waste. Two new ...

Parkinson’s disease (PD) entails loss of substantia nigra dopamine (DA) neurons and α-synuclein pathology. Currently, no effective disease-modifying therapies have been developed. Human pluripotent ...

Some parts of our bodies bounce back from injury in fairly short order. The outer protective layer of the eye—called the cornea—can heal from minor scratches within a single day. The brain is not one ...

Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) is a rare autoimmune condition in which the body's own defenses turn against ...

If you are a parent of a young child with autism (especially level 2 or 3, requiring significant support), the promise of a ...