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...
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British Researchers Develop an Efficient Method to Derive Patient-Specific Stem Cells
Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells derived from banked or even frozen blood samples present a practical and efficient platform to generate patient-specific cells. Researchers led by...
NYSCF Neuroscience Investigator Senior Author on Brain Model Study
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Ed Boyden, PhD, is senior author on a new paper in Advanced Materials. He and colleagues adapted a photolithography technique, traditionally...
NYSCF Postdoctoral Fellow Co-Authors Book Chapter on Bone and Tissue Engineering
Giuseppe Maria de Peppo, PhD, a NYSCF Postdoctoral Fellow, recently co-authored a book chapter in the seventh volume of Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells assessing the...
NYSCF Neuroscience Investigator Publishes Study in Nature Biotechnology on Riley-Day Syndrome
Difficult to extract, nerve cells from patients with Riley-Day syndrome largely preclude study of this disease. Riley-Day syndrome is a rare genetic disease that affects the...
Paralyzed Dogs Regain Some Coordination Following Stem Cell Based Therapy
Jasper, a dachshund, might not go on long walks, but he can stay in step on a treadmill with harness support after participation in a stem...
An Oncogene Plays Key Role in Brain Development
To better understand genetic factors involved in brain development, researchers led by Tristan Bouschet and Pierre Vanderhaeghen examined mouse embryonic stem cells. When oncogene BCL6 was...
Stem Cells May be More Genomically Stable Than Believed
Cell mosaicism—genetic variations between individual cells of a particular type—may account for genomic “instability” observed in induced pluripotent stem cell lines. Researchers led by Mark Gerstein...
Stem Cell-Derived Neurons Integrate and Function in Rodent Brains
Generated neurons from human embryonic stem cells not only integrated into rodent model’s hippocampus but displayed and promoted electrical activity when optogenetically stimulated. These results may...
Isolated Pancreas Stem Cells Can Become Beta Cells
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers led by Leonard Harrison, DSc, identified and isolated stem cells from the pancreas, and they thenderived insulin-producing beta cells. While...
Colombian Alzheimer’s Disease Study Reveals Changes to Brain Before Symptoms
A large, extended Colombian family gripped by early-onset Alzheimer’s disease has helped researchers led by Eric Reiman, MD, determine how early (and rapidly) changes to the...
Scientists Remove Extra Chromosome in Down’s Syndrome Stem Cells
Trisomic disorders like Down’s syndrome (DS) may be corrected per a study published in Cell Stem Cell. Li B. Li and fellow researchers generated induced pluripotent...
First Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Model of Rare Eye Disease
David Gamm, MD, PhD, and University of Wisconsin colleagues report the first induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell model of Best disease, a rare, genetic disorder that...
Two Studies Reveal Possible Heart Attack Treatment with Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Two studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association assess the efficacy and safety of mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) treatment on heart attack patients....
2012 NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Prize Presented to Kazutoshi Takahashi, PhD
NYSCF announced Dr. Kazutoshi Takahashi, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University, as the 2012 NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Prize recipient for...
NYSCF 2012 Stem Cell Heroes
NYSCF honored three Stem Cell Heroes making an impact on the field right now: Bonnie Pfeifer Evans and Alice Shure of the Charles Evans Foundation, founding...
NYSCF 2012 Stem Cell Heroes
NYSCF honored three Stem Cell Heroes making an impact on the field right now: Bonnie Pfeifer Evans and Alice Shure of the Charles Evans Foundation, founding...
NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Publishes Study on Stem Cell Models of Rare Disease in Nature
Fabien Lafaille, PhD, 2012 NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow, was lead author on a recent study in Nature that employed stem cells to model herpes simplex encephalitis...
Nobel Laureate Publishes Study on Cellular Pluripotency Mechanism
Nobel laureate John Gurdon, DPhil, and colleagues published an article in Epigenetics & Chromatin, which details an aspect of direct reprogramming of cells following nuclear transfer....
Proteins Reprogram Cells to Pluripotent State
An alternative method to achieve cellular pluripotency, Stanford University School of Medicine researchers led by John Cooke, MD, PhD, uncovered an efficient way to reprogram cells...
New Method Averts Mitochondrial Disease in Embryos
A new study published in Nature reports success in the creation of mitochondrial disease-free human embryos. Based off of previous research in monkeys, researchers led by...
Newly Identified Immune Cell Population Protects Stem Cells
In Nature Immunology, a study identifies a new specialized subpopulation of cells, residing in bone marrow, that protect stem cell populations. Macrophages, which largely act as...
The New York Times: “Evening Hours – Beneficial Occasions”
From the New York Times, Bill Cunningham captures the Seventh Annual NYSCF Gala and Science Fair in pictures in his feature "Evening Hours – Beneficial Occasions." See...
Bloomberg News: “Scene Last Night: Julian Robertson, Morimoto, Colicchio”
From Bloomberg News, "Julian Robertson, whose firm Tiger Management LLC has bred some highly successful 'cub' money managers, discouraged that career path in an interview last night....
WSJ: “Stem Cell Heroes Show Off at Fair”
From the Wall Street Journal, "The New York Stem Cell Foundation gala isn't just a party: It is also a science fair illustrating state-of-the-art stem cell research....