Industry & Policy News

[Nature News] People around the world have high levels of trust in scientists, and most want researchers to get more involved in policymaking, finds a global survey with more than 70,000 participants.

[NIH] To bolster Long COVID research efforts, NIH is investing an additional $515 million over the next four years into the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery Initiative, a nationwide research program to fully understand, diagnose and treat Long COVID.

[NASA Space Station] While training for the upcoming mission was underway, two NASA Flight Engineers, Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara, focused a majority of their day on the Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Microgravity Induced Bone Loss (MABL-A) investigation. MABL-A, which was delivered aboard Northrop Grumman’s 20th Commercial Resupply Mission nearly two weeks ago, assesses the effects of microgravity on bone marrow stem cells.

[University of Liverpool] The University of Liverpool has launched a new spin-out company, TrophiCell, that has developed a revolutionary approach to harness the therapeutic potential of adult MSCs.

[University of Arkansas] Rebekah Samsonraj, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has made the study of stem cells her life's work, and her latest goal is to improve the quality of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) biomanufactured for medical treatments, particularly in regenerative medicine.

[VaccinesWork] Roughly 20 years ago, a biologist named Caroline Gargett went in search of some remarkable cells in tissue that had been removed during hysterectomy surgeries. The cells came from the endometrium, which lines the inside of the uterus.