Extracellular vesicles are generating excitement as tools for regenerative medicine and drug delivery — but no EV-based therapeutic has received market approval anywhere in the world. In a new Perspective article, we argue the barriers are not solely technical. They are also regulatory.
Recent legislative reforms to abortion law in New South Wales gave rise to vigorous public and media discourse. This post seeks to provide some clarifications across several related but legally and ethically distinct domains in health law.
A genome-edited pig kidney I was pleased to be invited to reflect on the future of xenotransplantation and human genome editing recently in an interview on ABC’s The World with Beverley O’Connor. The interview was broadcast following news of the unfortunate passing of Richard “Rick” Slayman — the first human to have received a genome-edited […]
The chimeric monkey experiment I was quoted in this article today regarding a newly published study in Cell that demonstrates, in the author’s words, that ‘mammalian pluripotent stem cells possess preimplantation embryonic cell-like (naive) pluripotency.’ As the summary notes, this discovery about embryonic stem cells can now be said to have been demonstrated experimentally through […]