Regenerative Medicine

Can Reprogrammed Stem Cells Cure Type 1 Diabetes?

Sernova’s regenerative medicine pouch aims to help millions of people achieve insulin independence.

By Sarah Philip

2 Minutes to Midlife: The Fantastic Unspecified Future of Epigenetic Clocks

With billions of dollars flooding into longevity, what role will epigenetic clocks play in measuring and intervening in aging?

By Robin Donovan

The Buck Institute, Where the Promise of Aging Research Isn’t Longevity

Science at this California institute focuses on healthspan—which is about living better, longer.

By Grace Rubenstein

Universal Blood by Mid-Century?

Regenerative medicine could get us there.

By David Warmflash

She Has Stem Cells in Her Crosshairs

Bone marrow transplants are harrowing. Agnieszka Czechowicz is working to make them safer.

By Elizabeth Preston

Perspective: Therapeutic Plasma Exchange & the Future of Aging

A first-person account of a simple clinical blood treatment that may extend healthy life.

By Lou Hawthorne

The Next Brain Implant is a Real Live Wire

No more metal: Living electrodes promise safer, better ways to fix injuries and disease and grow new links between man and machine.

By Emily Mullin

This Anti-Aging Injection Might Actually Work

Stem cells are overhyped as a cure for everything. But they’re finally showing promise in making elderly people stronger.

By Karen Weintraub

Can Cloned Pigs Save Dying Humans?

Why replacement organs will come from a farm.

By Elizabeth Preston

Liver Failing? Grow Some New Ones

A startup’s wild idea for creating organ factories in the body.

By Brian Bergstein