March 16, 2015
(Physorg) – Researchers at Kyoto University’s Center for iPS Cell Research and Application discover a simple way to increase the production of induced pluripotent stem cells. A major hurdle in reprogramming science is generating a sufficient number of iPS cells … Read More
March 13, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – Now, Salk researchers have found a way to, for the first time, convert cells from x-linked SCID patients to a stem cell-like state, fix the genetic mutation and prompt the corrected cells to successfully generate NK cells … Read More
March 10, 2015
(Medical News Today) – Drug development is a costly and lengthy business, not helped by the fact there is a high failure rate in drug testing due to the reliance on animal models. Animal biology is not an ideal substitute … Read More
March 10, 2015
(Nursing Times) – Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects nerves in the brain and spinal cord, causing problems with muscle movement, balance and vision. It’s an autoimmune disease, where the body’s immune system attacks its own nerve cells. There is currently no … Read More
March 6, 2015
(Medscape) – The use of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) throughout the world has expanded since the first bone marrow transplant took place more than 50 years ago. By the end of 2012, HSCTs had reached the 1 million mark, and … Read More
March 5, 2015
(Harvard Gazette) – Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at University-affiliated McLean Hospital have taken what they describe as an important step toward using the implantation of stem cell-generated neurons as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Ole Isacson and colleagues … Read More
March 2, 2015
(Eurekalert) – Researchers have for the first time successfully converted adult human skin cells into neurons of the type that regulate appetite, providing a patient-specific model for studying the neurophysiology of weight control and testing new therapies for obesity. The … Read More
February 26, 2015
(Newsweek) – Male same sex couples may soon be able to have children genetically related to both partners. Scientists from the University of Cambridge and the Weizmann Institute in Israel made the discovery while conducting research into how egg and … Read More
February 24, 2015
(Cambridge News) – Researchers from Cambridge University have shown for the first time that it is possible to make human egg and sperm cells using skin from two adults of the same sex. The scientific breakthrough may lead to a … Read More
February 23, 2015
(News-Medical) – The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) and the Stanley Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard are partnering to create a foundational stem cell resource to study psychiatric disorders through the production of induced pluripotent … Read More
February 20, 2015
(ABC.net) – Painful bone marrow or fat tissue donations may soon be a thing of the past after an Australian biotech company made a breakthrough in the manufacturing of stem cells. ASX-listed Cynata Therapeutics will mass manufacture mesenchymal stem cells … Read More
February 16, 2015
(Reuters) – Human stem cells engineered to produce renewable sources of mature, liver-like cells can be grown and infected with malaria to test potentially life-saving new drugs, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
February 13, 2015
(Bloomberg) – Stem-cell transplants were more effective than the standard medicine used to treat people with severe multiple sclerosis, a trial found. The findings, published in the online issue of Neurology, showed that patients in a 21-person study who received … Read More
February 9, 2015
(MIT News) – A new advance by MIT engineers could aid in those efforts: The researchers have discovered a way to grow liver-like cells from induced pluripotent stem cells. These cells can be infected with several strains of the malaria … Read More
February 5, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have engineered a way to use human liver cells, derived from induced pluripotent stem cells, to screen potential antimalarial drugs and vaccines for their ability to treat the liver stage of … Read More
February 2, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – A Spanish hospital has successfully used stem cells culled from healthy donors to treat seven heart attack victims, in what officials said was a world first. Madrid’s Gregorio Maranon hospital plans to treat 55 patients in all … Read More
January 30, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – A Rochester woman who was born with sickle-cell anemia has been cured of the disease after a bone marrow transplant at the University of Rochester Medical Center. It was the first such transplant for sickle-cell anemia at … Read More
January 29, 2015
(News-Medical) – Researchers in the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute have devised a novel way to generate transplantable corneal stem cells that may eventually benefit patients suffering from life-altering forms of blindness. Scientists used human corneal cells to … Read More
January 27, 2015
(Science Daily) – In a new study from Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham), researchers have used human pluripotent stem cells to generate new hair. The study represents the first step toward the development of a cell-based treatment for people with … Read More
January 16, 2015
(Phys.org) – Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered the stem cell in mice that gives rise to bone, cartilage and a key part of bone marrow called the stroma. In addition, the researchers have charted the … Read More
January 16, 2015
(Harvard Gazette) – A see-through zebrafish and enhanced imaging provide the first direct glimpse of how blood stem cells take root in the body to generate blood. Reporting online today in the journal Cell, researchers in Boston Children’s Hospital’s Stem … Read More
January 16, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – A new device that can rapidly concentrate and extract young cells from irrigation fluid used during orthopaedic surgery holds promise for improving the delivery of stem cell therapy in cases of non-healing fractures. UC Davis surgeons plan … Read More
January 16, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – In Hyderabad, India, Sayan Basu is using stem cells in a pilot project to restore the eyesight of patients with damaged corneas. If proven successful, the procedure could mean that Indian citizens can avoid long waiting lists … Read More
January 16, 2015
(Medical News Today) – In a new study, researchers from Duke University in Durham, NC, reveal they have grown the first ever human skeletal muscle that contracts in response to external stimuli, such as electrical impulses and pharmaceuticals. The team … Read More
January 7, 2015
(Johns Hopkins University) – A powerful “genome editing” technology known as CRISPR has been used by researchers since 2012 to trim, disrupt, replace or add to sequences of an organism’s DNA. Now, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine have shown that … Read More
