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...
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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...
NYSCF Investigators Generate New Cells to Study Multiple Sclerosis: A Conversation with Paul Tesar and Marius Wernig
At our annual Innovator's retreat, our 2010 NYSCF — Robertson Stem Cell Investigators Paul Tesar, PhD, of Case Western University, and Marius Wernig, MD, PhD, of...
Self-Assembling 3D Droplets Mimics Tissue
University of Oxford researchers report in Science self-assembling, tissue-like networks of water droplets. Fats enclose the water droplets akin to a cell’s own lipid bilayer. Deposited...
Stem Cells Spur Tissue Vascularization
A key challenge facing tissue engineers has been providing tissue with blood flow. Now, a group of scientists at the University of Michigan have identified the...
Blood Cells Rejuvenated Through Stem Cell Techniques
“New blood” takes on a literal meaning as researchers report the rejuvenation of mouse blood cells in Blood. The Lund University scientists reprogrammed stem cells that...
NYSCF Stem Cell Investigator Wins ISSCR Award
For his achievements, 2010 — NYSCF Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Marius Wernig of Stanford University is the recipient of the 2013 ISSCR-University of Pittsburg Outstanding Young...
NYSCF’s CEO Susan Solomon to Participate in Nifty Fifty Science Festival
The Nifty Fifty (times 3) are over 150 of the most dynamic scientists and engineers in the United States. They were selected for their unique...
NYSCF Lab Director Joins International Group to Find Alzheimer’s Cure
Dr. Scott Noggle, Director of the NYSCF Lab and the NYSCF – Charles Evans Senior Research Fellow for Alzheimer's Disease, and his research team are collaborating...
NYSCF Researcher Brings Us Closer to Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease
NYSCF scientist Mike Nestor, PhD, with a team of fellow NYSCF researchers developed a new technique that enables scientists to better image living neurons made from...
NYSCF Scientists Develop, Optimize Stem Cell Derivation Technique for the Clinic
A team of New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute scientists led by David Kahler, PhD, NYSCF Director of Laboratory Automation, have developed a new...
NYSCF Investigator Profiled in CNN on Neuroscience, Brain Activity Map
2012 NYSCF — Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Ed Boyden, PhD, is the subject of an extensive feature on CNN.com. Boyden, a pioneering neuroscientist at MIT, has developed a new...
NYSCF Scientists Develop, Optimize Stem Cell Derivation Technique for the Clinic
A team of New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute scientists led by David Kahler, PhD, NYSCF Director of Laboratory Automation, have developed a new...
The Non Profit Times Names NYSCF a “Best Non Profit To Work For 2013”
NYSCF is proud to announce that it was named one of the The Non Profit Times “Best Non Profits To Work For 2013”. NYSCF shares this honor with...
Profiled: NYSCF’s New Model of Research to Accelerate Cures
The New York Stem Cell Foundation was featured in FasterCures' "Honest Brokers for Cures: How Venture Philanthropy Groups are Changing Biomedical Research," for its innovative "non-profit"...
NYSCF Lab Director Joins International Group to Find Alzheimer’s Cure
Dr. Scott Noggle, Director of the NYSCF Lab and the NYSCF – Charles Evans Senior Research Fellow for Alzheimer's Disease, and his research team are collaborating...
NYSCF Researcher Brings Us Closer to Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease
NYSCF scientist Mike Nestor, PhD, with a team of fellow NYSCF researchers developed a new technique that enables scientists to better image living neurons made from...
Seventh Annual Gala and Science Fair
On October 9, 2012, the Seventh Annual New York Stem Cell Foundation Gala honored Stem Cell Heroes Seun Adebiyi, Bonnie Pfeifer Evans, and Alice Shure.