Nature, Letters “Molecular regulation of embryonic stem cell (ESC) fate involves a coordinated interaction between epigenetic, transcriptional, and translational mechanisms.”Read More »
Nature, News “The German federal supreme court has referred a controversial and already lengthy patent dispute about human embryonic stem (hES) cells to the European Court...
Nature, News & Views “Most drugs are intended to be selective for a single protein target, but will commonly bind to several other targets too. Some...
Los Angeles Times, Health “Scientists at UC Irvine and UC San Francisco have found a potential new use for human embryonic stem cells – helping cancer...
Science, News of the Week “Five years after it launched, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) last week awarded its first disease-oriented grants”Ó$230 million to...
Cell Stem Cell “The bond between the general public and stem cell research has long been tinged with misgivings.”Read More »
Science, This Week in Science “X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), the hereditary brain demyelinating disorder that was featured in the movie “Lorenzo’s Oil,” is typically treated by transplantation...
Nature “Initial interest in gene therapy waned after the technology failed to live up to expectation. Progress made since has received little attention, but suggests that...
“Johns Hopkins scientists report having used a commercially available drug to successfully “rescue” animal brain cells that they had intentionally damaged by manipulating a newly discovered...
Nature, Abstract “The slow kinetics and low efficiency of reprogramming methods to generate human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) impose major limitations on their utility in...
Science, News Focus “Despite past failures and growing skepticism about cell therapy in general, scientists once again plan to test fetal cell transplants on Parkinson's disease”...
Nature, Research Highlights “Adult cells can be turned into ‘pluripotent’ or embryonic-like stem cells with the insertion of four genes “Ó Sox2, Oct4, Klf4 and c-Myc.”...
Harvard Science “A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and collaborators at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...
NYSCF applauds NYSCF-Druckenmiller fellow Justin Ichida on his recently published work in Cell Stem Cell, bringing us closer to turning adult cells into patient-specific stem cells...
NYSCF applauds NYSCF-Druckenmiller fellow Justin Ichida on his recently published work in Cell Stem Cell, bringing us closer to turning adult cells into patient-specific stem cells...
Nature, Editor’s Summary “Genome-wide association studies have identified hundreds of genetic variants associated with complex human diseases, but most confer quite small increments of risk.” Read...
Nature, Editor’s Summary “Autism is a highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorder, and yet very few specific susceptibility genes have been identified to date.” Read More »
Cell Stem Cell, Brief Report “Two independent groups demonstrate that human cord blood (CB) is a ready source of somatic cells that can be reprogrammed to...
Cell Stem Cell, Review “Stem cell biology holds great promise for a new era of cell-based therapy, sparking considerable interest among scientists, clinicians, and their patients. ...
The Daily Telegraph (London) The first license to create human-pig embryos has been issued to a team studying heart disease. Read more »
Newsweek “The answer almost doesn’t matter, because stem-cell research has become the latest casualty of a plague sweeping biomedical science: advances in the lab aren’t reaching...
“The Rockville, Maryland based company Neuralstem has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) permission to test its spinal cord stem cells in twelve patients with...
University of Wisconsin, Press Release “A team of scientists from the Morgridge Institute for Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison reports that it has created induced...
Nature, Editor’s Summary “A rare luminal stem cell population, termed CARN cells, has been identified in the mouse prostate.”Read More » See related article: “A luminal...
Governor David A. Paterson proclaimed September 23, 2009, as Stem Cell Awareness Day in New York State.
