July 25, 2018
(New Atlas) – An international team of scientists has created the most lifelike artificial embryos ever, even guiding them through “the most important event in life” – a key development stage known as gastrulation. Skipping the sperm-meets-egg chapter, the researchers … Read More
July 20, 2018
Nature Biotechnology (vol. 36, no. 6, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “DIYbio Gets a Poxy Rap” “Human Embryo Rresearch Policy Update”
July 18, 2018
(UPI) – Combining segments of bone engineered from stem cells, scientists have developed a new technique for personalized bone grafts for patients with disease of injury. The method, which was described Wednesday in the journal Scientific Reports by scientists at … Read More
July 13, 2018
(San Francisco Chronicle) – When Luane first considered stem cell therapy for Jordan, she asked his neurologist at Stanford about it. I won’t stop you, the doctor told her, but I can’t recommend it. She knew of other parents who … Read More
July 9, 2018
(The Guardian) – It sounds rather perverse and archaic today to call a child born by IVF a “test-tube baby”. The technique of assisted reproduction has become so widespread and normalised, more than 6 million babies down the road, that … Read More
July 4, 2018
(UPI) – Heart function in monkeys has been restored with human stem cells, according to a study, showing promise the method will work in humans with heart failure. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin Medicine in Seattle found the hearts … Read More
July 3, 2018
(CNN) – Following heart attacks, a handful of monkeys regained some of the pumping ability their hearts had lost after being given human embryonic stem cells, according to a study published Monday in Nature Biotechnology. Scientists have tried for years … Read More
June 29, 2018
(MIT Technology Review) – Bioprinting tissue isn’t a new idea. 3-D printers can make human skin, even retinas. Yet the method, so far, has been limited to tissues that are very small or very thin and lack blood vessels. United … Read More
June 28, 2018
(The Globe and Mail) – Researchers behind a made-in-Canada technology for multiplying the number of stem cells that can be derived from donated cord blood say they are ready to move on to the next phase in their effort to … Read More
June 27, 2018
(Wired) – Crack open the door of the incubator at Novoheart’s Hong Kong headquarters and you’ll find about a dozen pea-shaped, pulsating blobs submerged in a warm, salty-sweet broth. They’re 3-D human heart organoids—a simplified, shrunk-down version of the real … Read More
June 27, 2018
(Science Magazine) – The Karolinska Institute (KI) in Stockholm has finally, officially, found disgraced surgeon Paolo Macchiarini guilty of scientific misconduct. Macchiarini was widely hailed as a pioneer in regenerative medicine for his technique of implanting artificial tracheae seeded with … Read More
June 27, 2018
(Australian Broadcasting Co) – There are now more than 50 clinics in Australia offering stem cell treatment through cells derived from the patient’s fat, which is extracted through liposuction. With the patient receiving his or her own cells, the process is … Read More
June 27, 2018
Science as Culture (vol. 27, no. 1, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Research Misconduct in the Age of Open Science: The Case of STAP Stem Cells” by Mianna Meskus, Luca Marelli, and Giuseppe D’Agostino
June 21, 2018
(Science) – It has been 20 years since the first derivation of human embryonic stem cells. That milestone marked the start of a scientific and public fascination with stem cells, not just for their biological properties but also for their … Read More
June 19, 2018
(CNN) – In our human genome, there are many elusive genetic variants related to medical conditions, but the impact of these variants to actually cause a disease has not been conclusively determined — or ruled out. In other words, the … Read More
June 15, 2018
(CBS News) – Doctors at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles are trying something new. They’re collecting the baby’s cord blood at birth to gather stem cells. Then when the child undergoes the second HLHS [hypoplastic left heart syndrome] surgery, “We’re going … Read More
June 15, 2018
(News Medical) – A new study that compared six of the most promising adeno-associated viral (AAV) gene therapy vectors in human retinal organoid models showed clear distinctions in the efficiency of gene transfer to both retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) and … Read More
June 14, 2018
(News Medical) – Now, mathematician Laura Wadkin and colleagues have shown that human embryonic stem cells move by traveling back and forth in a line and have shed light on how the cells interact with each other and their environment. … Read More
June 12, 2018
(Medscape) – Stem cell transplantation research continues to show encouraging benefits in inducing long-term remission of multiple sclerosis (MS), but many are cashing in on the hopes raised by headlines of “game-changing” results, to the detriment of patients as well … Read More
June 5, 2018
(News-Medical) – Stem cell therapy is one of the new-age therapeutic approaches being explored for the treatment of Alzheimer’s. The plaques and tangles in the brain of an Alzheimer’s patient affect two essential proteins: ‘amyloid beta’ and ‘tau’. Due to … Read More
June 1, 2018
(The Verge) – Scientists have 3D printed the thin protective film over the eye, called the cornea, using human cells — and it’s the most advanced version of an artificial cornea yet. Should the technology improve, it could help millions … Read More
June 1, 2018
(STAT News) – The company’s roster of scientific advisers amounts to a who’s who of prominent stem cell experts, leading figures from Harvard and Stanford who are at the forefront of a field trying to turn basic discoveries into medical … Read More
May 31, 2018
(MIT Technology Review) – A trial planning to use the gene-editing tool CRISPR on sickle-cell patients has been put on hold because of unspecified questions from US regulators. CRISPR Therapeutics, which is developing the therapy, sought approval from the US Food … Read More
May 31, 2018
(The Scientist) – Pediatric surgeons at the University of California, San Francisco, have treated a second-trimester fetus with stem cells taken from her mother’s bone marrow. The baby, born in February, was the first patient enrolled in the world’s first … Read More
May 30, 2018
(Nature) – As we report in a News story this week, Japan is set to push ahead with a promising treatment for heart disease that relies on stem cells. It could soon be made available under a fast-track approval system … Read More
