July 24, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – A Korean team led by Director of the Center for Genome Engineering Jin-Soo Kim, Institute for Basic Science (IBS) and Professor Dong-Wook Kim at Yonsei University has experimented with hemoplia A-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and … Read More
July 16, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, have developed a template for growing beating cardiac tissue from stem cells, creating a system that could serve as a model for … Read More
July 15, 2015
(Los Angeles Times) – Doctors have limited options for treating mitochondrial disease, but a team led by a prominent innovator may have taken an important step toward developing new therapies: rewinding diseased cells from patients to create pluripotent stem cells with … Read More
July 10, 2015
(Stanford Daily) – Induced pluripotent stem cells (IPSC) could be the key to the future of personalized medicine, as a new study published by Stanford Cardiovascular Medicine has successfully used the stem cells to recreate patient-specific heart cells. Their research … Read More
June 25, 2015
(Eurekalert) – Cell transplantation researchers have successfully used bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) to treat a variety of diseases and conditions. Now, using injections of MSCs, a research team in Brazil has successfully treated laboratory rats modeled with severe … Read More
June 24, 2015
(Vice News) – It has experimented with Arctic drones, designed the next generation of smart rifles and developed secure wifi networks for combat platoons. Now, the Canadian Armed Forces is looking to develop a battlefield-ready adult stem cell program to … Read More
June 16, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – Human stem cells can be differentiated to produce other cell types, such as organ cells, skin cells, or brain cells. While organ cells, for example, can function in isolation, brain cells require synapses, or connectors, between cells … Read More
June 11, 2015
(University of York) – Scientists at the University of York have made a significant advance that could make cell-based treatments for arthritis less of a lottery. Researchers in the Departments of Biology and Physics at York, working with colleagues at … Read More
June 10, 2015
(Nanotechnology Now) – In regenerative medicine, the technology to control stem cell functions such as differentiation and proliferation is indispensable. It has been reported that nanosized gold particles promote the differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells into osteoblasts. Also, other … Read More
June 9, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – Researchers at VCU Massey Cancer Center’s Bone Marrow Transplant Program have recently published findings from a phase 2 clinical trial that demonstrate lymphocyte recovery in related and unrelated stem cell transplant recipients generally falls into three patterns … Read More
June 3, 2015
(Medical News Today) – The first steps toward developing “bioartificial” replacement limbs that are suitable for transplantation have reportedly been taken by a team at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, who write about their work with an animal model in … Read More
June 3, 2015
(Lung Disease News) – A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Arizona State University’s (ASU) Biodesign Institute, have recently released results from a study that may have important implications for the future of the science of lung tissue bioengineering. The study, … Read More
June 2, 2015
(Popular Science) – Prescribing medications for psychological conditions is notoriously tricky—one drug works differently for individuals with the same condition and can even change over time in the same person. Now researchers have been able to create tiny versions of … Read More
May 21, 2015
(Nature) – A famed surgeon committed scientific misconduct in his reports of how he transplanted synthetic windpipes seeded with stem cells into patients, according to an independent investigator. The investigator found that six published papers authored by Paolo Macchiarini, a … Read More
May 6, 2015
(Nature) – A newly discovered type of stem cell could help provide a model for early human development — and, eventually, allow human organs to be grown in large animals such as pigs or cows for research or therapeutic purposes. … Read More
May 4, 2015
(Physorg) – This week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a major patent to two scientists from the UCLA Eli & Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Research, William Lowry, Ph.D., and Kathrin Plath, Ph.D. … Read More
April 15, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have transformed skin cells from patients with Lou Gehrig’s disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), into brain cells affected by the progressive, fatal disease and deposited those human-made cells into the first … Read More
April 15, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – If you got hit with any of the ‘intestinal bugs’ that went around this winter, you’ve felt the effects of infectious microbes on your digestive system. But scientists don’t fully understand what’s going on in gut infections … Read More
April 10, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – Using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), a team led by Mount Sinai researchers has gained new insight into genetic changes that may turn a well known anti-cancer signaling gene into a driver of risk for bone cancers, … Read More
April 6, 2015
(Union Times San Diego) – Working with cultures of induced pluripotent stem cells from a patient, Salk scientists led by gene therapy expert Inder Verma repaired the genetic defect that causes the disease. Infants born with this inherited condition have … Read More
April 3, 2015
(Phys.org) – It turns out that the chromosomes in laboratory stem cells open slowly over time, in the same sequence that occurs during embryonic development. It isn’t until certain chromosomal regions have acquired the “open” state that they are able … Read More
March 27, 2015
(Eurekalert) – Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) — adult cells reprogrammed back to an embryonic stem cell-like state–may better model the genetic contributions to each patient’s particular disease. In a process called cellular reprogramming, researchers at Icahn School of Medicine … Read More
March 24, 2015
(PR Newswire) – Recent studies employing adult stem cells obtained from bone marrow and fat have been used in patients suffering from osteoarthritis of the knee. Results have indicated not only symptomatic improvement but also suggest that cartilage healing and regeneration … Read More
March 23, 2015
(News-Medical) – Scientists at the University of Cambridge have successfully created ‘mini-lungs’ using stem cells derived from skin cells of patients with cystic fibrosis, and have shown that these can be used to test potential new drugs for this debilitating … Read More
March 17, 2015
(Economic Times) – A research led by scientists of the Monash University has for the first time shown the effectiveness of combining a stem cell-based therapy with an anti-scarring agent which would reverse scarring and markers of kidney injury, thereby … Read More
