October 22, 2012
The University of Tokyo today dismissed the researcher who claimed to have carried out what would have been the world’s first trial of treating human patients with cells created from their own induced pluripotent stem (iPS). The researcher, Hisashi Moriguchi, … Read More
October 22, 2012
The most common and aggressive brain tumor grows by turning normal brain cells into stem cells, which can continuously replicate and regrow a tumor with only a handful of cells left behind, new research finds. (Fox News)
October 19, 2012
The prevailing view that stem cells are the principle originators of brain cancer may be incorrect, according to a report out today (October 18) in Science. (The Scientist)
October 18, 2012
Study found no survival differences, but blood cells may be associated with more chronic side effects. (U.S. News and World Report)
October 17, 2012
Death will come for us all one day, but life will not fade from our bodies all at once. After our lungs stop breathing, our hearts stop beating, our minds stop racing, our bodies cool, and long after our vital … Read More
October 17, 2012
In a conversation with Technology Academy Finland (TAF) at the time of his winning the Millennium Technology Prize earlier this year, and published today exclusively by the Huffington Post, Shinya Yamanaka said a future in which medical drugs are made … Read More
October 16, 2012
A new method of using adult stem cells as a model for the hereditary condition Gaucher disease could help accelerate the discovery of new, more effective therapies for this and other conditions such as Parkinson’s, according to new research from … Read More
October 15, 2012
It has been a crazy week for stem cell research. After the high of a Nobel prize for Japan’s Shinya Yamanaka, the pioneer of cellular reprogramming, events took an alarming and surreal turn when a little-known compatriot – Hisashi Moriguchi … Read More
October 15, 2012
In a newly planned trial, recently approved by the FDA, researchers will examine whether stem cells obtained through umbilical cord blood at birth may be an effective treatment for children with autism. (Forbes)
October 12, 2012
Four young boys with a rare, fatal brain condition have made it through a dangerous ordeal. Scientists have safely transplanted human neural stem cells into their brains. Twelve months after the surgeries, the boys have more myelin — a fatty … Read More
October 11, 2012
Japan’s Nobel prize-winning Shinya Yamanaka will likely get up to 30 billion yen ($383 million) for his stem cell research over the next decade, an official said Wednesday. (AFP)
October 11, 2012
Four boys with a rare and often fatal brain disease were implanted with stem cells that began fixing damage that impeded their ability to walk, talk and eat, a trial found. (Businessweek)
October 10, 2012
This morning, at the annual Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) Investor Forum in San Francisco, I’m hosting a panel discussion on the increasingly popular hypothesis that cancer stem cells (CSCs) play a vital role in tumor recalcitrance. (Forbes)
October 8, 2012
Scientists from Britain and Japan shared a Nobel Prize on Monday for the discovery that adult cells can be transformed back into embryo-like stem cells that may one day regrow tissue in damaged brains, hearts or other organs. (Reuters)
October 5, 2012
Long-term survivors of blood-related cancers who had stem cell transplants are at risk of developing risk factors that can lead to heart disease, researchers found. (Medpage Today)
October 5, 2012
Reprogramming cells found in the brain into new human neurons may offer a new approach to cell therapy. (Cell Stem Cell)
October 3, 2012
A study developed by researchers at the IDIBELL, led by Manel Estellar, has identified epigenetic changes that occur in adult stem cells to generate different tissues of the human body. (Medical Xpress)
September 26, 2012
Somatic cells can be reprogrammed to form embryonic stem cell-like induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), but the process suffers from low efficiency and the underlying molecular mechanisms that control reprogramming remain poorly understood. Here we perform an inhibitor screen to … Read More
September 24, 2012
Ex-Detroit Lions great Gail Cogdill has a failing heart but is too old for a transplant – so he’s turning to the Internet for help. (CBS News)
September 14, 2012
Scientists at the Gladstone Institute have revealed the precise order and timing of hundreds of genetic “switches” required to construct a fully functional heart from [mouse] embryonic heart cells – providing new clues into the genetic basis for some forms … Read More
September 13, 2012
Timothy Ray Brown of San Francisco is known as “The Berlin Patient†because of where he was treated. He and the doctor who treated him, Gero Hutter, made their first joint appearance in the U.S. on Wednesday when Hutter spoke … Read More
September 12, 2012
The gene therapy they developed works by changing the chromosomal makeup of the blood stem cells – helping them to produce ADA, like other healthy cells. (Fox News)
September 10, 2012
This is how he found a clinical trial conducted by Stem Cells, Inc. at Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. The company was looking for 12 recently paralyzed patients for a study of its product: purified human neural stems cells … Read More
September 4, 2012
For most people who are paralyzed, there is no treatment available to help them regain full function of their limbs. But, promising new research from a phase 1 study conducted at the University of Zurich sponsored by StemCells, Inc. shows … Read More
September 3, 2012
Researchers have produced lung cells in the lab using stem cells grown from the skin of patients with cystic fibrosis – a tool they believe can be used to test drugs that might overcome the debilitating, life-shortening condition. (The Star … Read More
