Staff Spotlight: NYSCF’s Andrew Reiter Wants You To Know How Majestic Pigeons Are
Pigeons: they are the little airborne city dwellers who eat crumbs and nest in unexpected places. Some people love them, others not so much. NYSCF Administrative...
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Boosting Bovine Breeding: Scientists Create Early Stage Cattle Embryos in the Lab
The Context: Livestock breeding is an especially important part of food production and the American economy, but the process can be difficult and unpredictable. Developing approaches...
Music, Mentorship, and Medicine: Highlights of the NYSCF Innovators Retreat
This May, we gathered once again in beautiful Montauk for the NYSCF Innovator Retreat, in the 13th installment of an annual meeting where the NYSCF –...
How Octopuses and Squids Acquired New Senses
The Context: Octopus and squid tentacles are home to a complex nervous system that lets them sense their external environments, even being able to taste what...
She Took it Personally: How a Type 1 Diabetes Diagnosis Inspired Josephine Wesely to Become a Scientist
NYSCF Principal Scientist Josephine (Josi) Wesely, PhD, was probably the only kid who showed up to her doctor’s appointments with scientific papers in hand. “I was...
NYSCF Hosts NYC Mayor Eric Adams And Leaders in Biomedicine to Open Center for Engineering and Precision Medicine
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai partner to advance medical research at life sciences hub New York, NY & Troy,...
Meet the Nano-Syringe that Could Revolutionize Gene Therapy
The Context: Gene therapies hold a great deal of promise for treating a wide range of diseases. For the gene therapy to be effective, however, proteins...
How the Body’s ‘Zip Code’ Proteins Help Heal Our Bones As We Age
The Context: Our bones keep specialized pools of stem cells on hand to aid in general upkeep and injury repair throughout our lives, but this process...
A Stem Cell Cure for HIV? Another Patient is in Remission Thanks to Bone Marrow Transplant
In 1995, Timothy Ray Brown received bad news: he tested positive for HIV. The AIDS epidemic was in full swing. He recalled to New York Magazine...
Advocates Reflect on Lessons for Advancing Equity in STEM
In honor of Women’s History Month, NYSCF hosted a fireside conversation between equity advocates Maike Sander, MD (Max-Delbrück Center, Berlin, Germany) and Raeka Aiyar, PhD (NYSCF)...
How Could Stem Cells Cure Blindness? Experts Discuss Their Investigational Stem Cell Therapy to Restore Vision
People over the age of 75 have nearly a 30% risk of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which now affects 11 million in the United States....
Can Tumor Cells Be Used To Make A Cancer Vaccine?
The Context: Immunotherapies for cancer hold a lot of promise by training immune cells called T cells to recognize and attack cancerous cells. T cells can...
NYSCF Innovator Malin Parmar’s Investigational Cell Therapy for Parkinson’s Reaches First Patient In Clinical Trial
STEM-PD, a investigational cell therapy developed by NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Alumna Malin Parmar, PhD, of Lund University, reached its first patient last month...
The Gist of Gene Editing: Inside Biomedicine’s Hottest Tool
Gene editing: you’ve likely heard of it before, but what is the science behind biomedicine’s most versatile new star? How is it used for research and...
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Alumnus Takanori Takebe Receives 2023 ISSCR Outstanding Young Investigator Award
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) announced this month that NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Alumnus Takanori Takebe, MD, PhD, of Cincinnati Children’s...
Public Engagement with Stem Cell Research: NYSCF Shares Lessons Learned From Advocacy
Scientific progress is dependent on many factors, and one critical component is public engagement. The public relies on biomedical research to advance solutions for pressing health...
Uncovering New Treatment Options for a Rare Disease
The Context: INAD is a rare neurological disease affecting children, often referred to as a “pediatric Parkinson’s,” which is typically diagnosed between six months to three...
Finding ALS Treatments That Work For All Patients
The Context: ALS is a disease that manifests differently in each patient, with some cases resulting from genetic predispositions, and others sporadically. Because the causes can...
What Can Make Leukemia Extra Aggressive?
The Context: All our blood cells are created in the bone marrow by blood-forming stem cells, and when this process goes awry, leukemia can arise. Scientists...
How ‘Dancing Molecules’ Can Improve the Way We Study Neurodegenerative Disease
The Context: Turning patient stem cells into the different cell types of the brain offers immense promise for studying and treating neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s,...
The Nuts and Bolts Behind Disease Research: Meet the NYSCF Engineers
What goes into successful disease research? Scientists, of course, who design and conduct experiments. Patients, who generously offer to donate their cells or participate in clinical...
Stem Cells, mRNA Vaccines, and Snakes: An Evening with Derrick Rossi
Earlier this month, NYSCF hosted an intimate conversation with Interim CEO Derrick Rossi, PhD, who shared the journey of his already long and storied career in...
Killer Astrocytes, Tackling Neurodegeneration, and Sending Cells to Space: Valentina Fossati Reflects on Her Career
“I moved to New York in 2006, exactly when [Shinya] Yamanaka made the groundbreaking discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells, which was completely revolutionizing the way...
2022 in Review
As NYSCF enters 2023, we’re taking a moment to look back at the defining moments of 2022. Whether it was gathering in person again for our...
The Value of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging for the Scientific Community
We hear a lot about the importance of promoting diversity and creating inclusive cultures in the workplace, but why does it matter for science? Why should...