Beating Heart
Beating heart tissue made from human embryonic stem cells.
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Bob Costas: A Call to Action
Bob Costas urges support of stem cell research.
Governor Paterson speaks at NYSCF Gala 2008
At it’s third annual gala, NYSCF honored Governor David A. Paterson with the Leadership award.
NYSCF at the TimesCenter 2008
This panel of leading stem cell scientists and patient advocates provided the straight scoop on the latest developments in the stem cell field and explained why...
NYSCF Panel Discussion at the 92nd Street Y
The New York Stem Cell Foundation and the 92nd Street Y presented a panel discussion entitled: Stem Cell Research: The Way Forward.
Stem Cells: Developing New Cures
NYSCF has helped to create a video on stem cell research playing in the Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History in...
NIH Approves First New Lines; Many More on the Way
Science, News of the Week “At long last, federally funded stem cell researchers will soon have access to human embryonic stem (ES) cell lines that they...
NYSCF is Featured on NY1
Following the approval of stem cell lines to be federally funded by the NIH, NYSCF was featured on NY1 news.
Tumors After Attempted Stem Cell Therapy Highlight Importance of Rigorous Standards Before Clinical Treatment
ISSCR Press Release “The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is concerned and saddened by the recent report of nervous system tumors that developed in...
Mending the Failing Heart with a Vascularized Cardiac Patch
Cell Stem Cell, Previews “Functional, stem-cell-containing cardiac grafts will require vascularized myocardial constructs to support their survival and integration into the host vasculature.”Read More »
Stem Cell Center to Rise in Biology Hub
Science, News of the Week “Bangalore–India’s fledging stem cell R&D effort is set to receive a major boost.”Read More »
NIH Approves 13 New Stem Cell Lines
National Institutes of Health, Press Release “NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., today announced the approval of the first 13 human embryonic stem cell (hESC)...
NYSCF Applauds NIH’s Approval of Stem Cell Lines
Today, Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced that 13 new stem cell lines have been approved for federal research support....
Breaking Through: A Short NYSCF Film
In this short film that premiered at NYSCF’s 4th Annual Dinner Celebration in October 2009, some of the nations top scientists speak about the importance of...
Designing materials to direct stem-cell fate
Nature, Review Insight “Proper tissue function and regeneration rely on robust spatial and temporal control of biophysical and biochemical microenvironmental cues through mechanisms that remain poorly...
Systems-level dynamic analyses of fate change in murine embryonic stem cells
Nature, Letters “Molecular regulation of embryonic stem cell (ESC) fate involves a coordinated interaction between epigenetic, transcriptional, and translational mechanisms.”Read More »
Fresh hope for German stem-cell patent case
Nature, News “The German federal supreme court has referred a controversial and already lengthy patent dispute about human embryonic stem (hES) cells to the European Court...
Drug discovery: Predicting promiscuity
Nature, News & Views “Most drugs are intended to be selective for a single protein target, but will commonly bind to several other targets too. Some...
Embryonic stem cells may restore brains damaged by radiation
Los Angeles Times, Health “Scientists at UC Irvine and UC San Francisco have found a potential new use for human embryonic stem cells – helping cancer...
CIRM Awards Seek to Move Cell Therapies to the Clinic
Science, News of the Week “Five years after it launched, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) last week awarded its first disease-oriented grants”Ó$230 million to...
Culturing Stem Cell Awareness
Cell Stem Cell “The bond between the general public and stem cell research has long been tinged with misgivings.”Read More »
Slowing Brain Disease with Gene Therapy
Science, This Week in Science “X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), the hereditary brain demyelinating disorder that was featured in the movie “Lorenzo’s Oil,” is typically treated by transplantation...
Gene therapy deserves a fresh chance
Nature “Initial interest in gene therapy waned after the technology failed to live up to expectation. Progress made since has received little attention, but suggests that...
New ‘Schizophrenia Gene’ Prompts Researchers To Test Potential Drug Target
“Johns Hopkins scientists report having used a commercially available drug to successfully “rescue” animal brain cells that they had intentionally damaged by manipulating a newly discovered...
A chemical platform for improved induction of human iPSCs
Nature, Abstract “The slow kinetics and low efficiency of reprogramming methods to generate human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) impose major limitations on their utility in...