First patient receives neural stem cell therapy in groundbreaking UCI Health Huntington’s disease clinical trial REGEN4HD
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• Huntington’s disease is a genetic disorder that gradually destroys brain cells over the course of 10 to 30 years, typically starting between the ages of 35 and 50
• Phase 1b/2a will evaluate the safety of the treatment and provides hope for those with few options to slow the progression of the disease
• Clinical trial will enroll 21 people with early-stage Huntington’s disease, with 12 participants in a phase 1b dose-escalation group and nine in a phase 2a expansion group
Reported June 23 in Nature Biomedical Engineering, researchers at Vanderbilt Health and centers in Hong Kong have created a versatile uncertainty-aware AI framework broadly adaptable as a wrapper for digital pathology AI systems. (An AI wrapper acts as an interface layer that customizes, formats and automates how users interact with the underlying intelligence.) They demonstrate their wrapper, called TRUECAM, primarily with reference to non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) subtyping using whole-slide images.
UCLA scientists are calling for a large-scale initiative to understand how human cells influence one another — a missing layer of biology that could reveal how cellular interactions drive disease and inform new therapies.
A deep learning system (DL-T1b) leveraging digital pathology achieved strong performance (AUC 0.910) for predicting lymph node metastasis in T1b gastric cancer. Integration with six clinical risk factors into a nomogram further boosted predictive accuracy, offering a precise tool for personalized treatment decisions. This study establishes proof-of-concept for deep learning-based pathomics in early gastric cancer risk stratification.