Scientists Create Parkinson’s Disease in a Dish
NYSCF scientists, in collaboration with others, successfully created a human cell model of sporadic Parkinson’s disease in a dish. The scientists had the unique opportunity to study...
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NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Analyzes Utility of Gene Sequencing Method
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Alex Meissner, of Harvard University, published his recent analysis of whole-genome buslfate sequencing (WGBS). This sequencing method allows scientists...
NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Discovers New Insights Into Blood-Forming Stem Cell Regulation
NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Dr. Sandra Pinho, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, was part of a team of scientists who recently discovered new insights into...
NYSCF Research Institute Announces Largest-Ever Stem Cell Repository
The NYSCF Research Institute, through the launch of its repository in 2015, will provide the largest-ever number of stem cell lines available to the scientific research...
Ninth Annual Gala and Science Fair
The Ninth Annual Gala began with an inside look at the NYSCF laboratory at the NYSCF Science Fair, designed by David Rockwell. Anne & Vincent Mai,...
NYSCF Awards $9M to Six New NYSCF – Robertson Investigators
The 2014 NYSCF – Robertson Investigators were announced at NYSCF’s Ninth Annual Gala and Science Fair, held at Jazz at Lincoln Center in Manhattan. Each Investigator will...
Dr. Marius Wernig Awarded 4th Annual NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Prize
NYSCF announced that Dr. Marius Wernig, of Stanford University, is the recipient of the NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Prize. Dr. Wernig and his team discovered...
NYSCF Responds to NYTimes Stem Cell Article
NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon responded to “The Trials of Stem Cell Therapy,” published in The New York Times on September 15, 2014 with a Letter to the...
Scientists Identify Key Protein For Cell Pluripotency
NYSCF – Druckenmiller Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Raffaella Di Micco of New York University School of Medicine was first author for a paper published in Cell Reports...
Stem Cells Help Researchers Understand Schizophrenia
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Kristen Brennand of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai led a team of scientists that discovered that...
NYSCF Multiple Sclerosis Research Featured in Neurology Today
Neurology Today featured NYSCF – Helmsley Investigator Dr. Valentina Fossati’s latest research on multiple sclerosis in a larger story about Dr. Fossati and her personal commitment...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Reprograms Skin Cells to Mimic Rare Disease
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Gabsang Lee, of John’s Hopkins University School of Medicine, was senior author on a Cell Stem Cell paper describing...
NYSCF-Supported ALS Research Identifies Promising New Biological Pathway
Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, led by NYSCF Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Kevin Eggan, discovered a new, promising treatment for ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s...
NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Alumnus Publishes on Paternal Age Effects
NSYCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Alumnus Dr. Marco Seandal of Weill Cornell Medical College published his latest research on how paternal age effects genetic mutations in Stem...
NYSCF Bone Engineer Featured in Nature Profile
Nature recently featured a profile on the education, background, and dynamic cross-discipline work of NYSCF Scientist Dr. Giuseppe Maria de Peppo. Dr. de Peppo focuses his...
NYSCF Partners with Beyond Batten Disease Foundation to Fight Juvenile Batten Disease
NYSCF and Beyond Batten Disease Foundation (BBDF) are partnering to develop stem cell resources to investigate and explore new treatments and, ultimately, find a cure for juvenile...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Maps DNA Methylation
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator, Dr. Alex Meissner of Harvard University, mapped the methyl and demethylation patterns in human cells before and after fertilization. While...
NYSCF Travels Out East to Discuss Latest Research
In conjunction with the Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center (ADRC), NYSCF presented their latest Alzheimer’s research at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons in East Hampton. Presentations...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Discovers First Ever Selector Gene for Neurons
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Paola Arlotta, of Harvard University, published her latest work on gene co-regulation in Nature Neuroscience. The regulatory logic, or...
NYSCF Research Breakthrough Featured in NYTimes Magazine Cover Story
The New York Times Magazine featured NYSCF’s cutting-edge research and our efforts to bring to patients our technique of preventing the transmission from mother to child...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Develops New Way to Image Electrophysiology of Cells
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Ed Boyden of MIT Media Lab, published his latest research in Nature Methods on a new platform to study electrophysiology...
NYSCF and eagle-i Network Co-Develop iPS Cell Database
Recognizing the enormous research potential of shared iPS cell lines, the NYSCF Research Institute and eagle-i Network are partnering to make NYSCF iPS cell lines and related...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Discovers “Seeds” of Stem Cell Development
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Paul Tesar of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine published a paper in Cell Stem Cell describing 'seeds'...
NYSCF Announces 2014 Class of NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellows
NYSCF welcomed the 2014 class of NYSCF – Druckenmiller Postdoctoral Fellows at a reception at the Asia Society. These seven exceptional scientists work in stem cell...