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Clinical Trial Registry Errors Undermine Transparency
Catherine Offord | Aug 2, 2022 | 10 min read
A lack of comprehension among some researchers about how to use ClinicalTrials.gov may be hindering public access to trial information and holding up drug study results, an investigation by The Scientist finds.
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A Microbial Link to Parkinson’s Disease
Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga, PhD | Dec 4, 2023 | 6 min read
Haydeh Payami helped uncover the genetic basis of Parkinson’s disease. Now, she hopes to find new ways to treat the disease by studying the gut microbiome.
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Opinion: New Diabetes Drug Signals Shift to Preventing Autoimmunity
Jane Buckner, MD and Carla Greenbaum, MD | Mar 1, 2023 | 4 min read
A therapy for type 1 diabetes is the first to treat patients before symptoms appear, paving the way toward preventing this and other autoimmune diseases.
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Voters in California Extend Life of Stem Cell Funding Agency
Katarina Zimmer | Nov 13, 2020 | 2 min read
The state will take on additional debt to finance CIRM, which will now continue to fund stem cell research, training, and clinical trials.
Stem Cell Trial for Eye Disease Commences
Jef Akst | Sep 12, 2014 | 2 min read
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology will treat the first patient in its clinical trial testing an induced pluripotent stem cell-based treatment for age-related macular degeneration.
FDA Approves Oral Drug for Fabry Disease
Ashley Yeager | Aug 13, 2018 | 2 min read
The medicine increases the activity of a deficient enzyme in certain patients with the condition.
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Track COVID-19 Vaccines Advancing Through Clinical Trials
The Scientist | Apr 7, 2020 | 10+ min read
Find the latest updates in this one-stop resource, including efficacy data and side effects of approved shots, as well as progress on new candidates entering human studies.
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N-of-1 Trials Take on Challenges in Health Care
Catherine Offord | Jul 15, 2019 | 10+ min read
From personalizing clinical practice to aiding biomedical research, individualized clinical trials have been heralded as a solution to several problems plaguing modern medicine. But they’ve yet to be widely adopted.  
St. John's Wort Set for U.S. Clinical Trials
Steve Bunk | Feb 1, 1999 | 5 min read
After years of clinical studies in Germany, St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) is poised to undergo scientific scrutiny in the United States as a treatment for depression. Never clinically tested in this country, the yellow-blossomed, roadside weed, native to much of America's Northwest and to many other parts of the world, is now the focus of four such trials. Perhaps foremost among them is a $4.3 million study funded by the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) in the National Institutes
Can Destroying Senescent Cells Treat Age-Related Disease?
Katarina Zimmer | Mar 1, 2020 | 10+ min read
A handful of clinical trials are underway to find out whether drugs that target senescent cells can slow the ravages of old age.

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