Adult stem cells take root in livers and repair damage
Johns Hopkins researchers have demonstrated that human liver cells derived from adult cells coaxed into an embryonic state can engraft and begin regenerating liver tissue in mice with chronic liver...
View ArticleWinding back the clock with kidney stem cells
Stem cell research courts both controversy and support in the community- depending on your viewpoint.
View ArticleNew model for studying germ cell tumors in testes enlists embryonic stem cells
A team of researchers from Spain and Switzerland have developed a new model for studying the development of testicular germ cell tumors by transplanting embryonic stem cells into the seminiferous...
View ArticleStem cells help researchers peg rabies resistance (Update)
Researchers at Texas A&M AgriLife Research have developed a new technology to determine sensitivity or resistance to rabies virus.
View ArticleResearchers produce iPSC model to better understand genetic lung/liver disease
Using patient-derived stem cells known as induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) to study the genetic lung/liver disease called alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency, researchers have for the first time...
View ArticlePossible progress against Parkinson's and good news for stem cell therapies
Brazilian researchers at D'OR Institute for Research and Education (IDOR) and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) have taken what they describe as an important step toward using the...
View ArticleStem cell disease model clarifies bone cancer trigger
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...
View ArticleTelomeres and cancer mortality: The long and the short of it
Telomeres are short stretches of repeated nucleotides that protect the ends of chromosomes. In somatic cells, these protective sequences become shorter with each cellular replication until a critical...
View ArticleTo fight nasty digestive bugs, scientists set out to build a better gut—using...
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.
View ArticleStem cell scientists develop more effective way to create motor neurons
Often described as the final frontier of biology, the nervous system is a complex network comprised of the brain, spinal cord and the nerves that run through the body. Published today by scientists led...
View ArticleScientists find way to monitor progress of stem cells after transplantation...
Investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a way to monitor neural stem cells after they've been transplanted into the brain.
View ArticleFirst embryonic stem cell therapy safety trial in Asian patients
A clinical trial in the Republic of Korea for patients with degenerative eye diseases is the first to test the safety of an embryonic stem cell therapy for people of Asian descent. The study, which...
View ArticleNew hope in central nervous system injury
Winner of the Young Neurosurgeons Abstract Award, Abdullah H. Feroze, B.S., presented his abstract, entitled Neural Placode Tissue Derived from Myelomeningocele Repair Serves as a Viable Source of...
View ArticleStem cell 'Wild West' takes root amid lack of US regulation
The liquid is dark red, a mixture of fat and blood, and Dr. Mark Berman pumps it out of the patient's backside. He treats it with a chemical, runs it through a processor—and injects it into the woman's...
View ArticleLymphatic cells grown in the lab for the first time
For over one hundred years, scientists have debated the question of the origins of the lymphatic system - a parallel system to the blood vessels that serves as a conduit for everything from immune...
View ArticleHuman stem cell model reveals molecular cues critical to neurovascular unit...
Crucial bodily functions we depend on but don't consciously think about—things like heart rate, blood flow, breathing and digestion—are regulated by the neurovascular unit. The neurovascular unit is...
View ArticleSimple recipe to make sensory hair cells in the ear
Scientists at the Molecular Medicine Institute in Lisbon, Portugal, and at the University College London Ear Institute, United Kingdom, have developed a simple and efficient protocol to generate inner...
View ArticleStem cell technology could lead to ailing heart mending itself
For the first time, scientists can efficiently generate large numbers of rare cells in the network that pushes the heart's chambers to consistently contract. The technique, published May 28 in Stem...
View ArticleModel mimics how dormant infections caused by childhood chicken pox can...
The red, itchy rash caused by varicella-zoster - the virus that causes chickenpox - usually disappears within a week or two. But once infection occurs, the varicella-zoster virus, or VZV, remains...
View ArticleRecovery of sensory function by stem cell transplants
New research from Uppsala University shows promising progress in the use of stem cells for treatment of spinal cord injury. The results, which are published in the scientific journal Scientific...
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