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[Nature Biotechnology] The USD FDA has given the green light to a clinical trial designed to test patient-derived (iPSCs in patients with Parkinson’s disease.

Leveraging the versatility of stem cells allows researchers to advance science across multiple disciplines. [nan] Press Release

[Endomimetics (GlobeNewswire)] Endomimetics announced the awarding of a $2.8 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to support research to evaluate the potential of Bionanomatrix™ to improve performance of flow diverters used in the treatment of brain aneurysms.

[Miguel Hernández University of Elche (EurekAlert)] The National Multiple Sclerosis Society has awarded a grant of 1 million dollars to Dr. Isabel Pérez-Otaño, who leads the Plasticity and Remodeling of Neural Circuits laboratory at the Institute for Neurosciences. a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council and the Miguel Hernández University of Elche.

[QB3] A QB3-led team uniting researchers from the University of California campuses at Berkeley, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz was awarded a $12 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to investigate the origins of autism using neural organoids.

[Georgia State University] Dr. Chong Hyun Shin, a research assistant professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has received a three-year, $600,000 federal grant to study small molecules targeting obesity-linked diabetes.