NYSCF Research Institute scientists in collaboration with researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai refined a technique to turn skin cells from patients...
NYSCF welcomed six of the most talented stem cell researchers and neuroscientists from around the world into the NYSCF Investigator Program and the NYSCF Innovator Community....
Dr. Paul Tesar, a professor at Case Western Reserve University and NYSCF — Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Alumnus, is the 2017 recipient of the NYSCF –...
NYSCF and the Beyond Batten Disease Foundation (BBDF) partnered to create a unique and comprehensive collection of juvenile Batten (CLN3) disease induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells....
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Malin Parmar, a Professor at Lund University in Sweden, published a flurry of papers this summer all describing exciting...
Recording electrical signals from individual neurons inside the living brain is a rich source of information about brain function and the role that neuron plays; however,...
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator and NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Prize Awardee Dr. Feng Zhang and his team at the Broad Institute of Harvard...
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator and NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Prize Awardee Dr. Feng Zhang and his team at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced an increase in oversight and enforcement of the use of unproven stem cell therapies in the US. Hundreds of...
The neural process of understanding spoken language is extremely complex. The brain must interpret not only the sounds creating the words spoken, but also detect additional...
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Winrich Freiwald and a team of researchers at The Rockefeller University discovered important insights into the brain areas and processes behind...
NYSCF Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Alumnus Dr. Gabsang Lee and his team at Johns Hopkins University published their latest insights into how the zika virus causes...
The possibilities and implications of utilizing gene editing technology to treat patients raise thorny questions that must be addressed in a careful and thorough research and...
Cells in healthy tissue still acquire mutations. While many of these mutations are serious, and potentially cancerous, they rarely cause large-scale change within the tissue. NYSCF –...
Melissa Nirenberg, MD, PhD is joining NYSCF this September in a newly created role of Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Nirenberg comes to NYSCF from the NYU...
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Alumnus Dr. Ed Boyden, a professor at MIT Media Lab, has developed a new technique for precisely imaging biopsy samples utilizing standard...
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Alumna Dr. Shuibing Chen at Weill Cornell Medical School successfully developed a protocol for deriving organoids representing the human digestive...
A big issue surrounding liver transplants is that there aren’t enough livers to go around. Patients can end up on extensive waiting lists, unsure if they’ll...
Deep brain stimulation via implanted electrodes has proven an effective therapy for Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, and depression among other disorders; however, it remains an invasive and...
How primates, including humans, easily and effortlessly process social interactions such as playing, fighting and grooming has historically been shrouded in mystery. NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator...
NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon discussed “Harnessing patient data using stem cells to power precision medicine” during her co-located keynote plenary talk at the Cord Blood...
To successfully exist, many animals keep track of their angular heading, or directionality, over time as they navigate their environments; however, the brain architecture enabling this...
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Hillel Adesnik and his team at the University of California, Berkeley, reported their latest work studying the effect of gamma band...
Your body is full of immune cells that fight off infection and illness. You’ve probably heard of a few of them: white blood cells, B cells,...
