Nobel prize for mRNA vaccines
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman received this year’s Physiology or Medicine award for their work on RNA biology and mRNA-based vaccines.
Articles by Danielle Gerhard, PhD
2024 Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences
This year’s Breakthrough Prizes honor advances in CAR T cancer therapies, cystic fibrosis, and Parkinson’s disease.
Modifying macrophages to attack solid tumors
A team of industry and academic researchers developed a new way to engineer the immune
system, leading to the first clinical trial using genetically modified macrophages.
The bumpy road to treating multiple sclerosis with stem cells
Mixed messages surrounding their clinical benefits threatened the legitimacy of stem cell therapies for multiple sclerosis, but there is still plenty of promise.
Targeting nutrient signaling in the gut to tackle metabolic disease
A new oral bead technology is designed to stimulate nutrient-sensing cells in discrete parts of the gut to restore metabolic balance.
Electric fields disrupt cancer cell division
A novel, non-invasive treatment using electrical currents exploits physiological properties of dividing cancer cells to prolong survival and augment current therapies.
Science Milestone: RNA interference
Conserved across plants and animals, RNAi is a powerful mechanism with tremendous therapeutic potential.
On the road to treating mitochondrial disease
Recent advancements in mitochondrial genome editing technologies take scientists one step closer to developing viable treatments for mitochondrial diseases, which affect 1 in 4300 adults.
