Why the Microbes in a Mother’s Gut Could Matter for a Developing Baby’s Brain
The Context: Scientists know that the microbes in a mother’s gut can affect brain function in offspring, usually in response to stress, infection, or other adverse...
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NYSCF Announces 2020 Class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators
Top row: Drs. Raffaella Di Micco, Samantha Morris, José Ordovás-Montañés. Bottom row: Drs. Jiami Guo, David Schneider, John Tuthill New York, NY (October 20, 2020) – The...
NYSCF Team Receives Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award from the National Academy of Medicine
We are pleased to share that NYSCF Senior Research Investigator Bjarki Johannesson, PhD, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Daniela Cornacchia, PhD, have received a Healthy...
New Insights into How SARS-CoV-2 Shuts Off the ‘Alarm System’ in Human Cells
The Context: Scientists now understand the symptoms of COVID-19 fairly well, but there are still many unknowns about what happens to cells that are infected by...
High School Students Take A Deep Dive Into Stem Cell Research
At the end of August, 39 high school students who attend different public, private, and charter schools across New York City and the Northeast and hail...
Organoids Just Gained Their Missing Ingredient: Functional Blood Vessels
The Context: Organoids – 3D structures of human tissue derived from stem cells – are a critical tool for helping researchers study diseases like cancer and...
A ‘Genetic Score’ to Predict Whether a Medication May Cause a Patient Liver Injury
The Context: Many drugs cause liver injury in certain patients, and this is a leading cause of acute liver failure in the United States. A major...
Experts Discuss the Latest in COVID-19 Research: Everything from Immunity to Stem Cells to Vaccines
It has been six months since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States at full force, leaving millions sick, out of work, and desperate for new...
Consortium Including NYSCF Scientists Receives Grant Award to Study Parkinson’s Disease Risk Factors
A multi-institutional team of scientists led by Lorenz Studer, MD (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) and including Gist Croft, PhD (The NYSCF Research Institute), NYSCF –...
A Summer Like No Other: Meet the Class of 2020 NYSCF Interns
“Incredible.” “Eclectic.” “Life-changing.” These are just a few words that the 2020 class of NYSCF interns have used to describe their summer. These 22 talented high...
A New Method for Studying the DNA You Only Inherit from Your Mom, and What It Reveals About Disease and Aging
The Context: Mitochondria are structures in our cells that carry their own DNA inherited only from our mothers and provide energy to help our bodies function....
Does Brain Inflammation Trigger Neurodegeneration? If So, it Could Open the Door for New Therapies
Today, more than 6 million Americans suffer from neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and multiple sclerosis, and as our society ages, that number is only...
Why Are Mosquitoes So Thirsty For Our Blood, and What Does It Mean for the Way They Spread Disease?
The Context: Several infectious diseases such as Zika, dengue, yellow fever, and Chikungunya virus are transmissible through mosquito bites. Not all types of mosquitoes bite humans,...
Why Do We Get Goosebumps? The Answer Lies with the Stem Cells that Grow Hair.
The Context: While scientists suspect that goosebumps help animals with fur stay warm in cold environments, the reason that humans get goosebumps has been unclear. The...
Meet Lili Barbar: From Intern to Full Time Researcher to MD/PhD Student
At Lili Barbar’s final lab meeting (which per a discussion with her team, was pajama-themed), her mentor Valentina Fossati, PhD, began by expressing how much Lili...
For Fostering Gender Equity in Medicine, The Time is Now
“We just have to keep at it [with gender inequity in science and medicine],” remarked NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon. “We have to keep trying to...
NYSCF Innovator Collaboration Creates A New Tool for Tracking Brain Activity in Disease Research
The Context: One of the most useful ways for brain researchers to observe the activity of neurons is through a technique called calcium imaging, but current...
For Children With a Rare Neurological Disease, a First-Ever Treatment May be on the Horizon
The Context: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) is a rare genetic disorder that affects myelin, the ‘cable insulation’ that helps neurons send signals, leading to severe muscle stiffness...
Listen Here: Stem Cells Open the Door For Hearing Loss Treatments
The Context: Approximately 48 million Americans have some degree of hearing loss, largely due to damage of hair cells in the ears that make hearing possible....
The Lack of Diversity in Biomedical Research has Deadly Consequences
Disease impacts everyone, but not in the same way. Disease risk and drug efficacy can vary a great deal across individuals, and unfortunately, much of what...
Remembering Christo
By Paul Goldberger, NYSCF Board Member The artist Christo, a longtime supporter of NYSCF, died on May 31. The New York Stem Cell Foundation mourns the...
Susan L. Solomon Receives Public Service Award From International Society for Stem Cell Research
NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon recently received the 2020 Public Service Award from the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) for her outstanding contributions to...
On the Road to Personalized Therapies for Women with Reproductive Cancers
Ovarian cancer is a difficult disease to tackle, as is evident from the statistics that surround it: Five years after diagnosis, ovarian cancer survival rates are...
Community Continues from Afar: Highlights of the NYSCF Innovators Retreat
Each year, current NYSCF – Robertson Investigators, NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellows, and NYSCF Research Institute scientists gather for the NYSCF Innovators Retreat: one week of discussion...