2013 Summer Cocktail Reception Hosted by Alexanders
On July 19, NYSCF Board member Margo Alexander and her husband Bob Alexander opened their home to the most advanced stem cell science, hosting NYSCF's Annual...
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Japan Grants Final Approval for iPS Clinical Trial to Treat Blindness
Japan's regulatory body has given final go-ahead for the first-ever clinical trial testing patient-derived stem cells to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a common form of...
Adult Cells “Drink” Chemical Cocktail, Become Stem Cells
In 2005, Dr. Shinya Yamanak reported that the addition of four genes could "turn back the clock" on adult cells to become embryonic-like stem cells, known...
Stem Cells Self-Assemble into Functioning, Miniature Livers
Stem cell-derived liver cells, cultured in a Petri dish alongside blood and connective tissue, spontaneously assembled into a human liver bud, closely resembling a five to...
Nails Essential to Limb Re-growth
Crossing from science fiction to science, new findings in Nature pave the way for limb regeneration. Researchers led by Mayumi Ito of New York University have isolated...
Canary’s New Songs Help Researchers Identify Huntington’s Therapy
Learning new songs tipped researchers off to the unique ability of canaries to add new brain cells. Now, based on these findings, researchers have learned how...
In the WSJ, “Sitting on the Intersection of the Arts and Sciences”
"The arts and sciences usually exist in two separate worlds, but on Thursday evening The New York Stem Cell Foundation united the two at its first...
NYSCF CEO Writes Letter to the Editor of the New York Times
On June 19, the New York Times ran an article on all too common situation in drug research and development: an experimental drug that had a...
NYSCF Research Institute and Columbia University Researchers Use Patient-Specific Stem Cells to Identify Treatment for Diabetes
In a first for the field, NYSCF scientists with Columbia University’s Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center researchers have generated patient-specific beta cells, or insulin-producing cells, that accurately...
NYSCF Research Institute and Columbia University Researchers Use Patient-Specific Stem Cells to Identify Treatment for Diabetes
In a first for the field, NYSCF scientists with Columbia University's Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center researchers have generated patient-specific beta cells, or insulin-producing cells, that accurately...
Sandra Pinho, PhD
Current Appointment: Associate, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Pinho received her BS from University of Porto, Portugal, and her PhD at the Imperial College of London,...
NYSCF Research Fellow Publishes Review Article on Bone Engineering
In the June 2013 issue of Current Molecular Medicine, Giuseppe Maria de Peppo, PhD, a NYSCF Research Fellow, co-wrote a review article, assessing the utility of different...
Stem Cell-Derived Neurons Shed Light on Down’s Syndrome
Through stem cell techniques, a group of scientists led by Dr. Anita Bhattacharyya generated neurons from Down's syndrome patients' skin samples, providing an unprecedented model of...
Scientists Model Rare Neurodegenerative Disease in a Dish
Scientists from UCLA have succeeded in modelling ataxia telangiectasia (A-T), a rare genetic disorder, in a dish. This neurodegenerative disease affects 1 in 100,000 worldwide, with...
Major Advance For Stem Cell Treatments, Based on NYSCF Proof-of-Concept Research
Scientists report the successful creation of patient-specific human embryonic stem cells with just an egg cell and a skin sample through a technique called somatic cell...
Major Advance For Stem Cell Treatments, Based on NYSCF Proof-of-Concept Research
Scientists report the successful creation of patient-specific human embryonic stem cells with just an egg cell and a skin sample through a technique called somatic cell...
Shining a Light on MS: NYSCF Investigator Profiled
Multiple Sclerosis Discovery Forum followed NYSCF — Helmsley Investigator Valentina Fossati, PhD, on her quest that is as scientific as personal. When she turned 30, Fossati was diagnosed...
Girl Breathes On Own With Stem Cell Engineered Wind Pipe
A two and a half year old girl has become the youngest recipient of a bioengineered wind pipe, made from her own stem cells. Born without...
NYSCF Scientists Create Human Bone from Skin Cells
In a step towards personalized bone grafts to treat traumatic injury or congenital defects, a study, led by Darja Marolt, PhD, and Giuseppe Maria de Peppo, PhD, and published in...
NYSCF Investigator Maps Mechanisms That Guide Cell Differentiation
As stem cells mature into other cell types, a process known as differentiation, they undergo key molecular-level changes. To understand the regulatory mechanisms that govern this...
NYSCF Scientists Publish Review Article on New Analytic Tools to Standardize Cells
Reprogramming, or reverting, adult cells into an embryonic-like state is a dynamic process: some cells retain their adult cell features whereas others become fully pluripotent, indicating...
Scientists Identify New Hormone that Boosts Insulin-Producing Cells
Led by Douglas Melton, PhD, Harvard Stem Cell Institute Principal Faculty member and NYSCF Medical Advisory Board Executive Committee member, a new Cell study identifies a hormone in...
NYSCF Investigator Maps Fly’s Neurons to Counter Insect-Borne Disease
The brain, dense with neurons, translates external stimuli into behavioral responses and learned memories, and just how this information is decoded can mean the difference between...
NYSCF Scientific Advisor and MAB Member Works to “Reinvent Drug Discovery”
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) was a principal supporter of a new study published today in Cell Stem Cell that employed a novel stem...
NYSCF Scientific Advisor and MAB Member Works to “Reinvent Drug Discovery”
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) was a principle supporter of a new study published today in Cell Stem Cell that employed a novel stem...