December 3, 2014
(News-Medical) – Overcoming graft rejection is the main obstacle when it comes to stem cell regeneration or organ transplantation. Current treatment includes the use of systemic immunosuppression, which leaves the patient at risk for opportunistic infections. Scientists now are investigating … Read More
December 2, 2014
(Medical News Today) – Using DNA samples from research unrelated to cancer, two teams of scientists have uncovered early, pre-cancerous genetic changes in the blood that are linked to increased chances of developing blood cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma, or … Read More
December 2, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – A new study that challenges the prevailing view of how bowel cancer develops in the large intestine is published today in Nature Medicine. Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered that bowel cancer may not be restricted to … Read More
December 1, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Researchers at the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, show that induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells can be used to correct genetic mutations that cause Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The research, published in … Read More
November 25, 2014
(Nanowerk) – Medical researchers from Keele University and Nottingham University have found that magnetic nanoparticles coated with targeting proteins can stimulate stem cells to regenerate bone. Researchers were also able to deliver the cells directly to the injured area, remotely … Read More
November 25, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – After more than six years of intensive effort, and repeated failures that made the quest at times seem futile, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) and Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and … Read More
November 25, 2014
(The Guardian) – He wants to bore a hole in your head. But don’t panic, Olav Hellebø is not a modern-day trepanist and it will be a top-notch surgeon, not the 49-year-old Norwegian businessman, holding the drill. Drilling holes in the … Read More
November 21, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – The portion of the adult brain responsible for complex thought, known as the cerebral cortex, lacks the ability to replace neurons that die as a result of Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, and other devastating diseases. A study in … Read More
November 20, 2014
(Harvard Stem Cell Institute) – HSCI scientists at Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Regenerative Medicine have discovered that blocking the production of a common cellular ‘glue’ (heparan sulfate) can force blood stem … Read More
November 19, 2014
(Phys.org) – Werner syndrome is characterized by the premature appearance of features associated with normal aging and cancer predisposition. This syndrome occurs frequently in Japan, affecting 1 in 20,000 to 1 in 40,000 people. The therapeutic methods for this disease … Read More
November 19, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute have found that injections of cardiac stem cells might help reverse heart damage caused by Duchenne muscular dystrophy, potentially resulting in a longer life expectancy for patients with the chronic muscle-wasting … Read More
November 17, 2014
(MedPage Today) – New insights into how molecular time signaling controls stem cells at different stages of brain development could have implications for the development of novel treatments for psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases, researchers reported. Researchers from Karolinska Institute, in … Read More
November 14, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have succeeded in explaining how stem cells in the brain change to allow one type of stem cell to produce different cell types at different stages. In a study being published … Read More
November 13, 2014
(Medical News Today) – With the help of mouse models, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and the “tooth fairy,” researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have implicated a new gene in idiopathic or non-syndromic autism. … Read More
November 11, 2014
(Bioscience Technology) – “Berlin Patient” Timothy Brown was cured of HIV after he received stem cells from a patient naturally immune to the disease. His story inspired two companies to try and recreate that natural immunity in HIV patients using … Read More
November 11, 2014
(Phys.org) – The motor neurons that innervate muscle fibres are essential for motor activity. Their degeneration in many diseases causes paralysis and often death among patients. Researchers at the Institute for Stem Cell Therapy and Exploration of Monogenic Diseases (I-Stem … Read More
November 10, 2014
(Eurekalert) – By transforming human scar cells into blood vessel cells, scientists at Houston Methodist may have discovered a new way to repair damaged tissue. The method, described in an upcoming issue of Circulation (early online), appeared to improve blood … Read More
November 7, 2014
(Phys.org) – Induced neural stem cells (iNSCs) created from adult cells hold promise for therapeutic transplantation, but their potential in this capacity has been limited by failed efforts to maintain such cells in the desirable multi-potent NSC state without continuous … Read More
November 7, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Massachusetts General (MGH) and Boston Children’s hospitals (BCH) for the first time have used a relatively new gene-editing technique to create what could prove to be an effective technique for … Read More
November 7, 2014
(Phys.org) – Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) give rise to all blood and immune cells throughout the life of vertebrate organisms, from zebrafish to humans. But details of their genesis remain elusive, hindering efforts to develop induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) … Read More
October 31, 2014
(The Economist) – Dr Lancaster’s organoid was not the first, however. That honour had fallen, a couple of years earlier and largely unnoticed by the world, to a humbler part of the body, the intestine. Intestinoids were created in James … Read More
October 29, 2014
(Washington Post) – Scientists have used human stem cells to create functional, 3-D stomach tissue — in effect, little miniature versions of the organ in its earliest stages of development. This is a first, and the grown tissue will allow … Read More
October 27, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital have devised a new way to use stem cells in the fight against brain cancer. A team led by neuroscientist Khalid Shah, MS, PhD, who recently demonstrated the … Read More
October 27, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – DefiniGEN is one of the first commercial opportunities to arise from Cambridge’s expertise in stem cell research. Here, we look at some of the fundamental research that enables it to supply liver and pancreatic cells for drug … Read More
October 23, 2014
(Phys.org) – The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute, through the launch of its repository in 2015, will provide for the first time the largest-ever number of stem cell lines available to the scientific research community. Initially, over … Read More
