Advocates of stem-cell research say they were long waiting for someone like Julian Robertson, who founded one of the earliest hedge funds in Tiger Management Corp....
The New York Stem Cell Foundation received $27 million from the Robertson Foundation. The Robertson Foundation gift, in addition to other support, will provide funding for NYSCF...
Susan Solomon, Co-founder and CEO of The New York Stem Cell Foundation, joined Chuck Scarborough to discuss the efforts to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease...
Time Scientists at Cornell Weill Medical Center, while studying the role of a gene in the development of stem cells that become blood cells, found that...
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and NYSCF are establishing a collaborative program to advance the development and use of stem cells in therapies for...
NYSCF Fellow Dr. Christopher Fasano and colleagues at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center used human embryonic stem cells to derive floor plate tissue, an important signaling...
Nature, News “Stem-cell researchers have puzzled over why reprogrammed cells taken from adult tissues are often slower to divide and much less robust than their embryo-derived...
NYSCF Fellow Dr. Christopher Fasano recently published a paper in which he was able to create floor plate tissue from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). This...
NYSCF-Druckenmiller Fellow Gabsang Lee’s protocol, Derivation of neural crest cells from human pluripotent stem cells, was chosen for the cover of Nature Protocols. Read about his...
Jerusalem Post “A new technology developed at Hadassah University Medical Center has made it possible to produce large amounts of human embryonic stem cells for industry...
NY Times, Novelties “If a lover breaks your heart, tissue engineers can’t fix it. But if sticks and stones break your bones, scientists may be able...
CBS News “Twelve years after the discovery of the human embryonic stem cell, research is finally picking up steam.” Read More »
Washington Post “One year after President Obama announced he was lifting his predecessor’s controversial restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, some scientists...
Cell Stem Cell “In a recent issue of Nature, Tachibana et al. (2009) conducted chromosomal transfer into recipient primate oocytes to yield live offspring or monkey...
Cell Stem Cell, Previews “In a recent paper in Nature, Vierbuchen et al. (2010) show that fibroblasts can be directly convereted into functional neurons by defined...
Science, News of the Week “Stem cell research offers an ever-shifting battlefield, with vested interests and biologists squabbling over the political, ethical, and scientific merits of...
Nature, News & Views “In a feat of biological wizardry, one type of differentiated cell has been directly converted into another, completely distinct type. Notably, the...
Science, Policy Forum “Recent National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines regarding human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines created from embryos remaining after infertility treatment are expected...
Nature “Two independent projects in different countries with very different subjects came to the same conclusion at around the same time.” Read More »
Nature, News & Views “Defects in mitochondria are implicated in Parkinson’s disease. Study of a quality-control pathway involving the proteins PINK1 and Parkin provides further clues...
Nature, News & Views “Embryonic stem cells can create copies of themselves, but can also mature into almost any type of cell in the body. Tiny...
Science, Review “Adult stem cells are crucial for physiological tissue renewal and regeneration after injury.” Read More »
Nature, Research Highlights “Transplanting nerve-cell precursors derived from embryonic stem cells into the brain may be a promising repair strategy, but getting the cells to connect...
Nature, News “US stem-cell researchers had reason to celebrate last week.” Read More »
New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF)-Druckenmiller Fellow, Daylon James, PhD, of Weill Cornell Medial College, is lead author on a study defining conditions for generating a...
