Cell & Gene Therapy

29/05/2026

Scientists uncovered evidence that human blood cells may trace their origins back to single-celled ancestors that lived 700 million years ago. By rebuilding the evolutionary family tree of blood cells, the team revealed how today’s immune system grew from some of Earth’s earliest life forms.

29/05/2026

S***m cells move through fluids that should stop them almost instantly, yet new research suggests they succeed by exploiting unusual properties of active living matter.

29/05/2026

Researchers at VIB, Ghent University, and VUB have uncovered how two proteins essential for immune cell development work together at the molecular level.

09/05/2026

Scientists just uncovered how the immune system’s killer cells strike cancer with microscopic precision.

08/05/2026

Defeating obesity is rarely easy.

08/05/2026

A newly discovered molecule disrupts cancer cells’ ability to repair DNA by triggering the breakdown of key proteins. Cancer cells can survive by repairing damage to their DNA—even damage that would normally be fatal. A key defense mechanism is homologous recombination, a highly accurate repair ...

03/05/2026

Research is revealing surprising new insights about how much our genes do – and don't – make us who we are.

26/04/2026

An improved stem cell method produces functional insulin cells that reverse diabetes in mice.

23/04/2026

22/04/2026

A known cell-death protein turns out to quietly reshape stem cell aging.