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...
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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...
Fetal Cells Again?
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”...
Chemical Reset
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.”...
From stem cells to functioning strip of heart muscle
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-Druckenmiller Fellow Justin Ichida is Lead Author on Groundbreaking Study
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-Druckenmiller Fellow Justin Ichida is Lead Author on Groundbreaking Study
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...
Genetics of complex diseases
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...
Scanning for links to autism
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 »
Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Human Cord Blood Using OCT4 and SOX2
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...
Regeneration Next: Toward Heart Stem Cell Therapeutics
Cell Stem Cell, Review “Stem cell biology holds great promise for a new era of cell-based therapy, sparking considerable interest among scientists, clinicians, and their patients. ...
The first UK human-pig hybrid embryos given go ahead
The Daily Telegraph (London) The first license to create human-pig embryos has been issued to a team studying heart disease. Read more »
What Condition Could Stem Cells Help First?
Newsweek “The answer almost doesn’t matter, because stem-cell research has become the latest casualty of a plague sweeping biomedical science: advances in the lab aren’t reaching...
FDA green lights stem cell clinical trial for Lou Gehrig’s disease
“The Rockville, Maryland based company Neuralstem has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) permission to test its spinal cord stem cells in twelve patients with...
Wisconsin, Morgridge scientists excise vector, exotic genes from induced stem cells
University of Wisconsin, Press Release “A team of scientists from the Morgridge Institute for Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison reports that it has created induced...
Oncogenic potential in prostate cells
Nature, Editor’s Summary “A rare luminal stem cell population, termed CARN cells, has been identified in the mouse prostate.”Read More » See related article: “A luminal...
Stem Cell Awareness Day
Governor David A. Paterson proclaimed September 23, 2009, as Stem Cell Awareness Day in New York State.
Elaine Fuchs receives National Medal of Science
NYSCF congratulates Dr. Fuchs of Rockefeller University and the NYSCF Medical Advisory Board for her achievement.
Elaine Fuchs receives National Medal of Science
The Rockefeller University, Newswire”Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and head of the Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at Rockefeller University, has been named...
Familial dysautonomia: iPS cell disease model
Nature, Editor’s Summary “Familial dysautonomia is a rare but fatal peripheral neuropathy caused by a mutation in the gene IKBKAP that encodes a protein involved in...
To thwart disease, apply now
Nature Translational medicine is a key addition to the biomedical research enterprise. Policymakers and the research leaders now must build the infrastructure to take discoveries from...
NYSCF Mourns the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy
The New York Stem Cell Foundation joins the Nation in mourning the loss of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the leading stem cell supporter for human embryonic...
NYSCF Fellows Publish Research in Nature
NYSCF applauds NYSCF-Druckenmiller fellows Gabsang Lee and Christopher Fasano for their work, recently published in Nature, demonstrating that a rare but devastating neurological disease can be...