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...
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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...
Stem Cells to Treat Fractures in France
Project REBORNE will commence clinical trials to help repair fractured bone in France. Following successful pre-clinical work and approval by the French Medicinal Agency, autologous mesenchymal...
Drug Reverses Deafness in Mice
Hearing loss in mammals is thought irreversible: damage wrought to ear hair cells can lead to permanent deafness. A new study in Neuron from Albert Edge...
No Difference in Immune Response for Embryonic and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
The results of a Nature study may quell long-held concerns over the safety of transplanted induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. In a 2011 investigation, transplanted...
ALS Mice Benefit from Neural Stem Cell Transplant per Meta-analysis Study
A meta-analysis of 11 studies reveals that undifferentiated, mulitpotent neural stem cells (NSC) from mice or humans may slow the onset and mitigate the symptoms of...
NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon Featured at ARM Biotech Showcase
During the 2013 Biotech Showcase in San Francisco, NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon presented on NYSCF’s role in the future of stem cell research at the...
SCOTUS Will Not Hear Appeal in Sherley v. Sebelius
The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from the plaintiff’s of Sherley v. Sebelius. Significantly, this marks the end of a years-long legal battle to...
Oxford Researchers Reverse Blindness in Mice
University of Oxford researchers report strides to reverse blindness in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The group, led by Robert MacLaren, transplanted light-sensitive...
Time – Scientists Discover New Technique to Prevent Certain Inherited Disorders
Passing on genetic mutations for disease is one of the greatest fears among parents-to-be, but a new technique may alleviate some of those worries. Mitochondrial disorders...
Cancer Gene Essential for Stem Cell Maintenance
BRCA1, a gene commonly known for its role in cancer, has been found to play an essential role in hair follicle cell maintenance. As reported in...
HER-2 Positive Cancer Stem Cells Contribute to HER-2 Negative Breast Cancer
A paradox that finally explains why certain breast cancers respond to treatment has been uncovered by Jian Jian Li and colleagues. For HER-2 negative breast cancers,...
NYSCF Researchers Develop Scientific Technique to Help Prevent Mitochondrial Disease
A joint team of scientists from The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) and Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) has developed a technique that may prevent...
New Method Directly Converts Heart Muscle to Pacemaker Cells
The expression of a single gene can directly convert heart muscle cells to cardiac pacemaker cells (i.e. SAN cells) both in an animal and a dish....
Biomaterial Helps Repair Cornea, Treat Blindness
To treat corneal blindness, University of Sheffield researchers led by Frederik Claeyssens have engineered a biodegradable material with pockets to hold stem cells in place as...
StemBANCC to Speed Drug Discovery and Testing
Pharmaceutical companies and academic institutions, with European Union backing, are collaborating to produce a bank of 1,500 induced pluripotent stem cell lines. This StemBANCC project, to...
Researchers Derive Stem Cells from Urine
In Nature Methods, a group of researchers led by Duanqing Pei reported the derivation of neural progenitor cells from urine. Easily procured, human excreta could be...
New Ideas to Streamline Pharmaceutical Development Shared in TED Talks
As NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon revealed in her TED Global talk this past summer, the current model of drug development is broken: it takes, on...
NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon Honored with Stem Cell Action Leadership Award
On December 4, NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon was honored at the World Stem Cell Summit with the 2012 Stem Cell Action Leadership Award. Annually since...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Publishes Study in Neuron
To better understand how an animal’s state influences sensory experience, Takaki Komiayana, a NYSCF – Robertson Investigator, and colleagues employed an imaging platform to observe the...