US Government to Back Brain Mapping Project
Every dollar invested in the Human Genome Project returned $140 to the US economy. Now, President Obama will unveil a similar, ambitious plan to map the...
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NYSCF Investigators Link Epigenetic Changes to Disease
Blood and immune stem cells, as they age, lose some to all of their function, which increases our predisposition to devastating diseases like leukemia. NYSCF –...
Non-Profits Diversify, Innovate New York’s Economy
NYSCF hosted a paneled discussion, The New Nonprofit: Driving Economic Development in NYC, on how non-profit organizations impact and drive growth in New York’s economy. Darren...
Stem Cells Provide Insight into ALS
Subtle yet important, the interactions between motor neurons with neighboring cell types contribute to the pathologies of ALS (or Lou Gehrig’s disease), specifically motor neuron death....
Skin Cells Directly Converted to Neurons
It just takes the repression of one protein to directly transdifferentiate skin cells into functional neurons according to a new study in Cell. Xiang-Dong Fu with...
Skin Cells Transformed to Repair Multiple Sclerosis Damage
Multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease in which immune cells attack the fatty protective layer of myelin cells, may have a potential treatment. Through stem cell techniques,...
Pinpointed Taste Receptor Stem Cells Could Help Treat Sense Loss
Taste receptor cells have a quick turnover rate. Every 10-16 days, new cells replace the old; yet, pinpointing the replenishing stem cell source has eluded researchers....
Fat to Fight Obesity: Stem Cell Study Shows How
Brown fat, commonly thought as long-term energy source for hibernating animals, also plays an important role in blood sugar regulation and day-to-day metabolism. Previous studies have...
2013 Fellowship Applications
Please review all 17 applications in advance of the meeting, and come prepared to serve as the primary and secondary reviewer for the applications specifically assigned...
3D Printer Deposits Stem Cells
A new 3D printer technology deposits human embryonic stem cells in droplets. Building on 3D printer technology, this new platform can eject these fragile cells, which...
Hormone Prevents Stem Cell Death Following Lethal Radiation Dose
Radiation exposure often triggers cell death in hematopoetic, or blood-forming, stem cells. A study in Nature Medicine shows that the addition of a hormone following exposure could...
Cell Therapy Treats Gastrointestinal Disorder in Mice
A team led by Heather Young and John Furness has demonstrated a possible cell therapy to treat gastrointestinal motility disorders like Hirschsprung disease. For patients with...
Tuberculosis, a “Wolf-in-Stem-Cell-Clothing”
Under the cover of a mesenchymal stem cell, the tuberculosis (TB) bacterium persists, even years after living asymptomatically. A new study in Science Translational Medicine provides...
Scientists Create First “Disease in a Dish Model” of Rare Heart Condition
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cadiomyopathy is a rare, inherited, and currently untreatable condition, which is a common cause of sudden death in adolescents. Researchers led by Daniel...
Researchers Develop Test to Pinpoint Transition in Degenerative Eye Disease
Approximately 20% of patients diagnosed with dry age-related macular degeneration develop the wet form, which leads to irreversible eye damage and eventual blindness. While the dry...
Allogenic Stem Cells Help Rats Recover from Stroke
Rats, immediately following an induced ischemic stroke, fared better when injected with allogenic mesenchymal stem cells than a placebo. While there was no evidence of stem...
Japanese Researchers Derive Kidney Tissue from Stem Cells
Japanese researchers led by Kenji Osafune report the successful generation of mesoderm kidney tissue from induced pluripotent stem cells. This particular tissue type—between a stem and...
New Research From NYSCF Investigator Could Treat ALS
Paola Arlotta, a NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator, has reported in Nature Cell Biology the possibility to reprogram one type of neuron into another in...
NYSCF Neuroscience Investigator Featured in the Wall Street Journal
NYSCF Investigator Ed Boyden’s pioneering work in the field of optogenetics is profiled in the Wall Street Journal. By genetically engineering mice, Boyden and his colleagues...
NYSCF Breakthrough Named to “10 Predictions That Will Transform Healthcare”
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News has named a recent breakthrough from the NYSCF Laboratory to its list of "10 Predictions That Will Transform Healthcare." This list captures...
Researchers Target Metabolism of Leukemia Stem Cells
Often, leukemia lays dormant before re-emerging. Researchers believe that a resistive subpopulation of leukemia stem cells underlie our current difficulty in eradicating this blood cancer....
Leprosy Bacteria Reprogram Schwann Cells into Stem Cells
It’s not just humans who can reprogram cells. The leprosy bacterium can infect and thereafter revert adult Schwann cells into stem-like cells. The infection is spread...
Stem Cell Therapy Offers Hope to Spinal Muscular Atrophy Patients
Children born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) have a grim prognosis: most infants rarely see it to their second birthday. This debilitating, genetic disease has no...
Biomaterial Acts as Stem Cell Scaffold, Promotes Cartilage Repair in Patients
Reported in Science and Translational Medicine, a light-activated hydrogel helps to repair damaged cartilage by acting as a scaffold for stem cells. Jennifer Elisseeff and collaborators...
Damage Stalled, Stopped in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Mouse Model
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare genetic disorder, leads to muscle death and the formation of scar tissue due to a mutant copy of the dystrophin...