February 26, 2016
(STAT News) – But nearly one-third of the 50 million couples with infertility around the world are unable to conceive because of the man’s inability to properly create sperm cells. Now, by recreating the environment of the testicle in a Petri … Read More
February 25, 2016
(Associated Press) – Scientists have produced rudimentary mouse sperm from stem cells in the laboratory, a step that may lead to a treatment for infertile men. If the technique pans out in people, doctors might someday be able to turn … Read More
February 22, 2016
(Physorg) – A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) shows that the act of creating pluripotent stem cells for clinical use is unlikely to pass on cancer-causing mutations … Read More
February 15, 2016
(The Baltimore Sun) – Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are growing tiny replicas of the human brain to help the study of neurological diseases in a trend many hope could lead to better treatments and … Read More
February 2, 2016
(Medical Xpress) – Successful reprogramming of muscle cells derived from biopsies of patients with Andersen’s syndrome (AS) led to the formation of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells that can serve as a valuable model for understanding the cause of this … Read More
February 1, 2016
(Science Alert) – Scientists in the US have used gene editing to repair a genetic mutation in cells that causes retinitis pigmentosa, one of the leading causes of blindness in young people around the world. Researchers employed the CRISPR technique to … Read More
February 1, 2016
(Eurekalert) – A research team led by scientists from UCL have found a way to assess the viability of ‘manufactured’ stem cells known as induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Published today in Nature Communications, the team’s discovery offers a new way … Read More
January 19, 2016
(Physorg) – An international team of researchers from the Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS), the University of Bristol, Monash University and RIKEN have developed an algorithm that can predict the factors required to convert one human cell type to another. These … Read More
January 5, 2016
(The Japan Times) – Regenerative medicine is expected to be one of the ultimate treatments to help patients who suffer from intractable diseases and chronic conditions arising in a progressively aging society. With that in mind, The Japan News conducted … Read More
December 21, 2015
(Eurekalert) – New analysis by a George Washington University academic examines the possibility of using in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) for human reproduction and its ethical and practical implications. The paper is published today (Friday) in the Journal of Law and … Read More
December 16, 2015
(Physorg) – Adult cells, such as skin or blood cells, have a cellular “memory,” or record of how the cell changes as it develops from an uncommitted embryonic cell into a specialized adult cell. Now, Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers … Read More
November 13, 2015
(Science Codex) – Researchers from the Morgridge Institute for Research and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) in Australia have devised a way to dramatically cut the time involved in reprogramming and genetically correcting stem cells, an important step to … Read More
October 22, 2015
(BBC) – A team of researchers led by Dr Will Shu at the university’s School of Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS) put together a 3D printer capable of working with delicate stem cells. Working in conjunction with Roslin Cellab, the … Read More
October 19, 2015
(Eurekalert) – Investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) have established a highly efficient method for making kidney structures from stem cells that are derived from skin taken from patients. The kidney structures … Read More
October 14, 2015
(Australian Broadcasting Co.) – The very real possibility of creating embryos from stem cells raises ethical issues that need to be debated now, scientists say. “We think these are serious issues that we have to consider carefully as scientists before … Read More
October 8, 2015
(Australian Broadcasting Corporation) – Adult skin cells have been reprogrammed to make the most mature human kidneys yet to be grown in a dish, say researchers. The mini kidneys have hundreds of filtering units and blood vessels and appear to … Read More
October 2, 2015
(Eurekalert) – Researchers on the Wellcome Genome Campus reveal new genes involved in stem cell pluripotency, new subpopulations of cells and new methods to find meaning in the data. Published in Cell Stem Cell, the findings have implications for the … Read More
September 29, 2015
(Bloomberg Business) – Scientists have found a way to peer into the brains of people with autism: grow them in a dish. Aided by stem cell technology that earned Japanese researcher Shinya Yamanaka the Nobel Prize in Medicine three years ago, … Read More
September 10, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – Using “mini-brains” built with induced pluripotent stem cells derived from patients with a rare, but devastating, neurological disorder, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say they have identified a drug candidate that appears … Read More
August 21, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – The scientists also found that these cells may not be rejected by the immune system if iPSCs are turned into retinal pigment epithelium cells destined for the eye. Their discovery provides hope for the development of human … Read More
August 20, 2015
(CNET) – The brain was created from adult human skin cells, and grew to about the development of the brain of a five-month-old foetus, containing around 99 percent of the genes present in the foetal brain. This will allow the … Read More
August 6, 2015
(Science) – Two teams of researchers have found different ways to perform the same biological identity swap: turning skin cells into neurons. Both approaches, which involve merely adding a few chemicals to cells, could lead to new ways to treat … Read More
August 4, 2015
(Physorg) – If stem cell researchers can create a supportive environment, the stem cells themselves can then modify that environment to suit their needs. Identifying ?-5 laminin is a small step in the big picture of stem cell research, but … Read More
August 3, 2015
(Reuters) – A political battle over the use of fetal tissue in medical research has been reinvigorated by the release of undercover videos targeting Planned Parenthood officials. But the controversy comes just as interest in the use of fetal tissue … Read More
August 3, 2015
(New Scientist) – A pioneering stem-cell trial has been halted after genetic mutations were discovered in the cells of the second trial participant. One of the mutations may carry a remote risk of cancer.The trial is the first to explore … Read More
