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...
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 »
Science, News of the Week “Bangalore–India’s fledging stem cell R&D effort is set to receive a major boost.”Read More »
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)...
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....
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...
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...
Nature, Letters “Molecular regulation of embryonic stem cell (ESC) fate involves a coordinated interaction between epigenetic, transcriptional, and translational mechanisms.”Read More »
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...
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...
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...
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...
Cell Stem Cell “The bond between the general public and stem cell research has long been tinged with misgivings.”Read More »
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...
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...
“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...
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...
Science, News Focus “Despite past failures and growing skepticism about cell therapy in general, scientists once again plan to test fetal cell transplants on Parkinson's disease”...
Nature, Research Highlights “Adult cells can be turned into ‘pluripotent’ or embryonic-like stem cells with the insertion of four genes “Ó Sox2, Oct4, Klf4 and c-Myc.”...
Harvard Science “A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and collaborators at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...
NYSCF applauds NYSCF-Druckenmiller fellow Justin Ichida on his recently published work in Cell Stem Cell, bringing us closer to turning adult cells into patient-specific stem cells...
NYSCF applauds NYSCF-Druckenmiller fellow Justin Ichida on his recently published work in Cell Stem Cell, bringing us closer to turning adult cells into patient-specific stem cells...
Nature, Editor’s Summary “Genome-wide association studies have identified hundreds of genetic variants associated with complex human diseases, but most confer quite small increments of risk.” Read...
Nature, Editor’s Summary “Autism is a highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorder, and yet very few specific susceptibility genes have been identified to date.” Read More »
Cell Stem Cell, Brief Report “Two independent groups demonstrate that human cord blood (CB) is a ready source of somatic cells that can be reprogrammed to...
