June 5, 2014
(Science Codex) – One of the biggest challenges for medical researchers studying the effectiveness of stem cell therapies is that transplants or grafts of cells are often rejected by the hosts. This rejection can render experiments useless, making research into … Read More
June 5, 2014
(Nature) – The retraction of two controversial papers which promised a simple way to create embryonic-like stem cells appears imminent today after the lead author unexpectedly gave her full consent. Haruko Obokata, of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in … Read More
June 4, 2014
(News-Medical) – Duke researchers have found a new type of neuron in the adult brain that is capable of telling stem cells to make more new neurons. Though the experiments are in their early stages, the finding opens the tantalizing … Read More
June 4, 2014
(Deutsche Welle) – Mark Turner, medical director of the Blood Transfusion Service, is looking into how blood could be synthesized in the future. “We’ve known for some time that it’s possible to produce red blood cells from so called adult … Read More
June 3, 2014
(Medical News Today) – For many scientists, the clinical promise of stem cells has been dampened by very real concerns that the immune system will reject the transplanted cells before they could render any long-term benefit. Previous research in mice … Read More
May 29, 2014
(Science Codex) – A Harvard-led team is the first to demonstrate the ability to use low-power light to trigger stem cells inside the body to regenerate tissue, an advance they reported in Science Translational Medicine. The research, led by Wyss … Read More
May 27, 2014
(Psych Central) – Neurons generated from the skin cells of schizophrenia patients behave strangely in the early developmental stages, offering clues that might lead to earlier detection and treatment, according to scientists from the Salk Institute. The study, published in … Read More
May 23, 2014
(Phys.org) – The world has great expectations that stem cell research one day will revolutionize medicine. But in order to exploit the potential of stem cells, we need to understand how their development is regulated. Now researchers from University of … Read More
May 22, 2014
(Phys.org) – A new method of generating mature nerve cells from skin cells could greatly enhance understanding of neurodegenerative diseases, and could accelerate the development of new drugs and stem cell-based regenerative medicine. The nerve cells generated by this new … Read More
May 19, 2014
(Medical News Today) – There has been much controversy over the compelling idea of cancer stem cells – a small subset of “master cells” that drives the growth and development of a patient’s cancer. Now an international team of scientists … Read More
May 19, 2014
(Science Codex) – Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital have a potential solution for how to more effectively kill tumor cells using cancer-killing viruses. The investigators report that trapping virus-loaded stem cells in a gel and … Read More
May 19, 2014
(Huffington Post) – But that was before Reinders participated in a small trial for an experimental knee osteoarthritis treatment in India last year. The treatment, percutaneous cartilage bone interphase optimization (or PeCaBoo for short), involves gathering a patient’s own embryonic-like … Read More
May 19, 2014
(Forbes) – With the progress of two teams generating human embryonic stem cells from adult patients by means of cloning, scientists are one step closer to another means of delivering patient-specific treatments in the clinic. In mid April, Cell Stem … Read More
May 16, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Mice crippled by an autoimmune disease similar to multiple sclerosis (MS) regained the ability to walk and run after a team of researchers led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), University of Utah and University … Read More
May 16, 2014
(Healthline) – Researchers have shown for the first time that it is possible to grow new bone from stem cells made from an animal’s own skin cells. While this is not the first successful stem cell therapy tested on animals … Read More
May 14, 2014
(BioScience Technology) – Using new stem cell technology, scientists at the Salk Institute have shown that neurons generated from the skin cells of people with schizophrenia behave strangely in early developmental stages, providing a hint as to ways to detect … Read More
May 12, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Harvard scientists have merged stem cell and ‘organ-on-a-chip’ technologies to grow, for the first time, functioning human heart tissue carrying an inherited cardiovascular disease. The research appears to be a big step forward for personalized medicine, as … Read More
May 12, 2014
(Oncology Nurse Advisor) – Scientists have identified the cancer-specific stem cell that causes gastric cancer. This discovery opens up the possibility of developing new drugs for the treatment of this disease and other types of cancers. The research group, led … Read More
May 12, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Researchers have found a new source of stem cells that produce fat tissue, findings presented today at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Wroc?aw, Poland, show. This unique in vitro human stem cell model of brown fat … Read More
May 9, 2014
(Medical News Today) – Scientists have developed a model that mimics the complex structure of the cornea to enable the transplant of healthy corneal stem cells. The research was presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research … Read More
May 9, 2014
(Phys.org) – In a study published today in F1000Research, Professor Kenneth Lee of the Chinese University of Hong Kong reveals the full experimental results of an attempt to replicate a controversial study published in Nature recently that suggested that bathing … Read More
May 9, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – A subset of immune cells directly target colon cancers, rather than the immune system, giving the cells the aggressive properties of cancer stem cells. So finds a new study that is an international collaboration among researchers from … Read More
May 8, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – A new study in Nature challenges research data that form the scientific basis of clinical trials in which heart attack patients are injected with stem cells to try and regenerate damaged heart tissue. Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s … Read More
May 8, 2014
(E! Science News) – Now, researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona have taken a very important step towards understanding cell reprogramming and its efficiency: they have discovered the key role of the Wnt signalling pathway in … Read More
May 8, 2014
(News-Medical) – In two separate studies, scientists have developed methods to convert non-embryonic stem cells into eye cells that could be used to restore sight. The research is being presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research … Read More
