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From the WSJ: Researchers reported fresh evidence Wednesday that using gene therapy to manipulate the immune system is emerging as a promising new strategy in the fight against cancer. Five patients with a lethal leukemia achieved complete and rapid remissions

From Singularity Hub: In the world of genomics, Chinese biotech giant BGI is big and getting bigger. The firm agreed to purchase Bay Area juggernaut Complete Genomics for a bargain basement $117 million in 2012. BGI owns 156 DNA sequencers

It hasn’t got to the stage of actual implantation yet, but it is a proof of concept that a human colon can be grown in the lab. Here’s the press release. And from the LA Daily News: Researchers at Children’s

This was delivered in Venice Beach. Here’s a link to the full program.

Here’s an article in the UK Mail discussing how GSK has developed “four thousand synthetic activators,” and how “the best three being (are being) used in human trials.”

Read more here. Researchers have constructed a living human ear that looks and feels just like the real thing, and they made it with the help of a 3D printer. The new ear improves upon prosthetic ears made by current

Will it work in humans? Good question. Here’s a Singularity Hub piece about it: Scientists have now cured diabetes – at least in a group of dogs – and they used a gene therapy to do it. Amazingly, only a

That seems to be what President Obama was implying in his recent SOTU address (for more on the Brain Activity Map Project, see this NYT article). In discussing the effects of one the last huge government-funded research projects, the Human

From Bloomberg: Muscle damaged by heart attacks can be repaired by an injectable gel that forms scaffolding, attracting stem cells and blood vessels in a study that may lead to a new method for reducing heart failure. The technique, studied

From Cnet: Backed by tech luminaries, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, a $3 million reward, is being presented to 11 different scientists for their efforts to cure diseases. Here’s a link to the actual prize site. Google’s Sergey Brin