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Building Bridges to Scalable Allogeneic Cell Therapy

Rui Tostoes, Chief Technology Officer at ImmuneBridge, shares how his team is redefining preclinical development and large-scale manufacturing for allogeneic cell therapies.

From Hanson Wade Group - 7th Allogeneic Cell Therapies Summit 27 May 2025

Molecular Devices launches automated QPix FLEX Microbial Colony Picking System

Molecular Devices, LLC., a leading high-performance life science solutions provider, today launched the QPix® FLEX™ Microbial Colony Picking System. Building on the company's 20-year legacy developing colony pickers, the QPix FLEX system automates and streamlines multi-step microbial screening workflow, reducing manual labor and saving valuable time.

From Molecular Devices UK Ltd 23 May 2025

Call centers replaced many doctors’ receptionists. Now, AI is coming for call centers.

At one call center in the Philippines, workers help Americans with diabetes or neurological conditions troubleshoot devices that monitor their health.

22 May 2025

Rural patients face tough choices when their hospitals stop delivering babies

Sophie Hofeldt planned to receive prenatal care and give birth at her local hospital, 10 minutes from her house. Instead, she's driving more than three hours round trip for her appointments.

19 May 2025

Diabetes paradox: Rising diabetes prevalence poses a growing threat to the labor market

Advances in medical technology over the last 30 years have made it easier to detect and treat diabetes, leading to significant health improvements in people with the disease.

18 May 2025

Pharmacists stockpile most common drugs on chance of targeted Trump tariffs

In the dim basement of a Salt Lake City pharmacy, hundreds of amber-colored plastic pill bottles sit stacked in rows, one man's defensive wall in a tariff war.

16 May 2025

Newsom’s pitch as he seeks to pare down immigrant health care: ‘We have to adjust’

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday proposed that California roll back health care for immigrants without legal status, saying the state needed to cut benefits for some to maintain core services across the board.

15 May 2025

Driving sustainability through green technology: Cubic releases ESG 2024 report

Social, and Governance (ESG) Report . The Report systematically presents Cubic’s innovative practices and outstanding achievements in the areas of environmental protection, social responsibility, and corporate governance (ESG).

From Cubic Sensor and Instrument Co. Ltd 14 May 2025

New insights into how the brain creates a unified visual experience

People have a lot of misconceptions about what the brain's left and right hemispheres do, but one well-known aspect of this division may be even more true than people realize: The brain not only splits up visual spatial perception-processing what's on our left in the right hemisphere and what's on our right in the left hemisphere-it takes cognitive advantage of that.

13 May 2025

Medicaid payments barely keep hospital mental health units afloat. Federal cuts could sink them.

This town's hospital is a holdout on behalf of people going through mental health crises. The facility's leaders have pledged not to shutter their inpatient psychiatric unit, as dozens of other U.S. hospitals have.

12 May 2025

A California lawmaker leans into her medical training in fight for health safety net

State Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson anticipates that California's sprawling Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal, may need to be dialed back after Gov. Gavin Newsom releases his latest budget, which could reflect a multibillion-dollar deficit.

9 May 2025

Trump team faces key legal decision that could put mental health parity in peril

The Trump administration must soon make a decision that will affect millions of Americans' ability to access and afford mental health and addiction care.

9 May 2025

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Cutting Medicaid is hard — even for the GOP

After narrowly passing a budget resolution this spring foreshadowing major Medicaid cuts, Republicans in Congress are having trouble agreeing on specific ways to save billions of dollars from a pool of funding that pays for the program without cutting benefits on which millions of Americans rely.

8 May 2025

Molecular Devices launches automated QPix FLEX Microbial Colony Picking System

Molecular Devices, LLC., a leading high-performance life science solutions provider, today launched the QPix® FLEX™ Microbial Colony Picking System.

From Molecular Devices UK Ltd 7 May 2025

Scientists use AI to build mutation-proof antibodies for SARS-CoV-2

Researchers used AI models to design antibodies that neutralize over 1,300 SARS-CoV-2 strains, including Delta and Omicron. The models demonstrated faster, cheaper, and more adaptable therapeutic development compared to traditional methods.

5 May 2025

Mindfulness-based therapy found to decrease opioid cravings and improve emotional health

Researchers from the University of California San Diego have found that Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) can help rewire the brain's response to natural healthy pleasure, leading to improved mood, greater attention to positive experiences and reduced opioid cravings.

30 Apr 2025

Erythropoietin fails to improve outcomes for newborns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy

Erythropoietin, a treatment for newborns with critically low levels of oxygen or blood supply to the brain at birth, does not prevent death or disability, according to a new multinational study.

25 Apr 2025

AI tools improve detection of key immune structures in melanoma

Researchers from the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (ECOG-ACRIN) have applied AI-driven processes for detecting tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) in thousands of digital images of melanoma tumor tissue, significantly enhancing TLS identification and survival predictions for operable stage III/IV patients.

24 Apr 2025

Telehealth matches in-person therapy for treating women with postpartum incontinence

Women who experience urinary incontinence after giving birth may get just as much relief from telehealth as they do from physical therapy, a new UC San Francisco study has found.

21 Apr 2025

Covid worsened shortages of doctors and nurses. Five years on, rural hospitals still struggle.

Even by rural hospital standards, Keokuk County Hospital and Clinics in southeastern Iowa is small.

18 Apr 2025

Labor News and Research

Building Bridges to Scalable Allogeneic Cell Therapy

Molecular Devices launches automated QPix FLEX Microbial Colony Picking System

Call centers replaced many doctors’ receptionists. Now, AI is coming for call centers.

Rural patients face tough choices when their hospitals stop delivering babies

Diabetes paradox: Rising diabetes prevalence poses a growing threat to the labor market

Pharmacists stockpile most common drugs on chance of targeted Trump tariffs

Newsom’s pitch as he seeks to pare down immigrant health care: ‘We have to adjust’

Driving sustainability through green technology: Cubic releases ESG 2024 report

New insights into how the brain creates a unified visual experience

Medicaid payments barely keep hospital mental health units afloat. Federal cuts could sink them.

A California lawmaker leans into her medical training in fight for health safety net

Trump team faces key legal decision that could put mental health parity in peril

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Cutting Medicaid is hard — even for the GOP

Molecular Devices launches automated QPix FLEX Microbial Colony Picking System

Scientists use AI to build mutation-proof antibodies for SARS-CoV-2

Mindfulness-based therapy found to decrease opioid cravings and improve emotional health

Erythropoietin fails to improve outcomes for newborns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy

AI tools improve detection of key immune structures in melanoma

Telehealth matches in-person therapy for treating women with postpartum incontinence

Covid worsened shortages of doctors and nurses. Five years on, rural hospitals still struggle.

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

Advancing Intracellular Delivery with LumiPore®

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