NYSCF Applauds Nobel Prize Win for Stem Cell Research
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) congratulates Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, at Kyoto University in Japan, and John Gurdon, PhD, at the Gurdon Institute in...
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Kyoto University Researchers Create Viable Oocytes from Stem Cells
After many failed attempts, researchers in Japan report success in mouse stem cell-derived oocytes in Science. Dr. Mitinori Saitu’s laboratory at Kyoto University reprogrammed embryonic and...
Stem Cell Epigenetics Influence Plasticity
Researchers led by Dr. Manel Esteller, director of the Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, have uncovered epigenetic changes in adult...
Chemotherapy Drug Targets Potentially Harmful Stem Cells, Leaves Other Cells Unscathed
A major setback for induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell transplantation, some cells may not differentiate into the desired cell type and could, potentially, produce tumor growth....
DNA Packaging Plays Critical Role in Cardiac Cell Differentiation
University of Washington researchers uncovered a regulator for cardiac cell differentiation from embryonic stem cells. Led by Sharon Paige, they investigated the genetic controls over the...
Tissue Engineers Develop Novel Treatment for Necrotizing Enterocolitis
To better treat children suffering from necrotizing enterocolitis, a disorder that results in intestinal tissue death, Dr. Tracy Griksheit and her colleagues at the Saban Research...
Neural Stem Cells Help Mice Recover Mobility After Spinal Chord Injury
To treat spinal chord injury, Mark Tuszynski, MD, PhD, and his colleagues at UCSD and VA San Diego Healthcare embedded neural stem cells in severed mouse...
Stem Cells Help Restore Hearing in Deaf Gerbils
Published in Nature, researchers at the University of Sheffield led by Dr. Marcelo Rivolta have successfully transplanted human embryonic stem cell-derived auditory nerve cells to treat...
Stem Cell Conmen Plead Guilty to Charges of Misbranded Treatment and Unapproved Drugs
Given the hope stem cell research offers, some have taken advantage of patients, peddling unapproved, risky “cures” to disease. A 60 Minutes report in 2006 investigated...
Susan L. Solomon and Valentina Fossati Interviewed on Nantucket 228
On Nantucket television program 228, NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon and NYSCF – Helmsley Investigator Valentina Fossati joined host Kate Brosnan to discuss the tremendous impact NYSCF...
Stem Cells as the Future of Medicine, Susan Solomon’s TED Talk Featured on TED Blog
The TED Blog posted an entry on how stem cells are the future of medicine, framing the topic with NYSCF CEO Susan Solomon’s TEDGlobal Talk. In it, Solomon...
Susan L. Solomon to be Honored with Stem Cell Action Award by GPI
Susan L. Solomon will be honored at the Genetic Policy Institute’s (GPI) World Stem Cell Summit with the 2012 Stem Cell Action Award on December 4...
In Cell, Chutima Talchai Demonstrates Insulin-Producing Cells De-differentiate in Type 2 Diabetes
Counter to the prevailing theory that beta cells die-off in Type 2 diabetes patients, NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow and postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University Medical...
Susan Solomon TED Talk: Realizing the Promise of Stem Cell Research
At TEDGlobal 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland, Susan Solomon unveiled a breakthrough development from NYSCF Research Institute scientists that could help revolutionize how disease is treated. In...
Dieter Egli and Alex Meissner co-author SCNT Paper in Nature Genetics
Dieter Egli, PhD, a NYSCF Senior Research Fellow, is co-author on a paper published in the August 19th edition of Nature Genetics, a study conducted in...
NYSCF Scientists Develop iPS Cell Model of Alzheimer’s Disease, A Key Step to Understanding Disease
At the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference this past July, Andrew Sproul, PhD, a NYSCF Postdoctoral Associate, presented NYSCF’s latest efforts to understand Alzheimer’s disease. They have...
Dieter Egli Contributes to Study that Provides Evidence of iPS Cell Transplantation Efficacy for Vision Regeneration
Dieter Egli, a NYSCF Senior Research Fellow, contributed to a study published in Molecular Medicine that provides direct evidence of sight-loss recovery using induced pluripotent stem...
Dung-Fang Lee Discovers Signaling Pathway in Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Pluripotency
Dung-Fang Lee, PhD, a NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Alumnus at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has published a new study in the August edition of Cell...
Marius Wernig Reports Advance in Creating Neural Stem Cells
Marius Wernig, MD, a NYSCF – Robertson Investigator at Stanford University, released an update to previously published work confirming that mouse skin cells can bypass the...
Sriram Bandi Creates Early Stage Liver Cells from Stem Cells
Sriram Bandi, PhD, a NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellowship alumnus, published work in the February 2012 Journal of Cell Science finding that cells derived from a human...
NYSCF Featured in Drug Discovery News Article on Stem Cell Research
Interviewed for Drug Discovery News, NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon and NYSCF Vice President of Research and Development Stephen Chang, PhD, revealed the potential for stem...
At Milken Institute’s “Celebration of Science,” Susan L. Solomon Participates on Panel
For a weekend in Washington, DC, “Celebration of Science” convened academic, pharmaceutical, biotech, and governmental leaders to share prominent scientific advances. NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon...
ISSCR 11th Annual Meeting
June 12 – 15, 2013 | Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC), Boston, MA USA The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)’s annual meeting has...
Susan L. Solomon Shares the History of NYSCF at Riverside Chats Event
At NYCTech Connect’s Riverside Chat event, NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon engaged an audience at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, recounting the founding of NYSCF. She revealed...
Historic Moment for Genomics, Project ENCODE Reveals the Functional Elements of DNA
In six papers published in Nature, the results of the federally funded effort ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements) that extended over 32 labs and involved 440...