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FDA Grants Fast-Track Designation to First Bioengineered Liver for Acute Liver Failure After Phase 1 Trial Shows Promise

United Therapeutics' miroliverELAP, an external bioengineered liver built on a decellularized pig scaffold seeded with human cells, receives FDA RMAT designation after all five Phase 1 patients survived treatment.

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Life Biosciences Raises $80 Million to Fund First Human Trial of Epigenetic Cell Rejuvenation

The Boston biotech closes a Series D round to advance ER-100, the first FDA-cleared therapy that uses partial epigenetic reprogramming to reverse cellular aging in humans.

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Bipartisan Senate Push Builds Toward Psychedelic Therapy for Veterans as Clinical Evidence Mounts

Two bipartisan Senate bills would create a VA Office of Novel Therapeutics and fund psychedelic research centers, while states enact their own laws and Phase 3 trials advance.

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Semaglutide Fails to Slow Alzheimer's in Largest GLP-1 Brain Trial, but Biomarker Shifts Keep the Metabolic Hypothesis Alive

Full results from Novo Nordisk's EVOKE and EVOKE+ trials, published in The Lancet, show oral semaglutide had no effect on cognitive decline over two years despite reducing key cerebrospinal fluid markers of neuroinflammation and tau pathology by roughly 10 percent.

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First Phase III Trial to Combine a Microbiome Pill with Cancer Immunotherapy Enrolls Over 700 Kidney Cancer Patients

The SWOG S2419 BioFront study is the first large-scale randomized trial testing whether a daily oral bacterial supplement can boost immunotherapy outcomes in advanced kidney cancer.

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