Promising mouse studies and billions of dollars in funding are stoking excitement. But we’ve been here before.

Test time has arrived: the first person has been treated in a highly anticipated gene therapy trial that aims to coax aged ...

Cellular reprogramming is the hottest topic in longevity science, with tech titans like Sam Altman investing in it. It's now ...

Life Biosciences says it just dosed its first patient in an FDA-approved clinical trial to reverse age-related blindness.

The American biotechnology company Life Biosciences announced last week that it has administered the first experimental treatment ER-100 to a patient suffering from glaucoma, one of the main causes of ...

Scientists have launched a human trial testing gene therapy that could make aging cells behave like younger ones.

Researchers at Tianjin First Central Hospital took fat cells from the woman who had been living with Type 1 diabetes for over ...

A mature cell of one type can be turned into a mature cell of another type without the cell having to pass through an earlier stage of development. This is called direct reprogramming, a reliable but ...

In order to reprogram readily available cells into specific immune cells that fight various diseases, one must know the "recipe" for the transformation. Researchers at Lund University have now created ...

Why pluripotent stem cells are worth the race The urgency around faster reprogramming is not just about lab convenience, it is about unlocking what pluripotent stem cells can actually do. Human ...

A team led by researchers has discovered that a group of cells located in the skin and other areas of the body, called neural crest stem cells, are the source of reprogrammed neurons found by other ...

A participant in a landmark clinical trial has been given a cellular-reprogramming treatment that aims to rejuvenate damaged ...