How Octopuses Taste by Touch
The Context: Scientists have long known that octopuses are able to taste what they touch with their tentacles, but the way their tentacles sense taste has...
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A New Prenatal Driver of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
The Context: The choroid plexus is a brain structure that makes cerebrospinal fluid (CSF): liquid that bathes the brain and spinal cord to form a protective...
2020 Year in Review
2020 has been a year like no other. The COVID-19 pandemic has presented the world with unparalleled challenges and has highlighted the need for pioneering biomedical...
Experts Discuss the Path Toward Overcoming Racial Health Disparities
Racial and ethnic minorities are disproportionately affected by virtually every major disease of our time, and this gap has only been exacerbated by COVID-19. This year,...
Promising Results Published on a New ALS Drug Discovered with NYSCF Support
Ezogabine (an epilepsy drug), has successfully reduced a hallmark of ALS in 65 patients participating in a phase 2 clinical trial, according to a recent report...
Valentina Fossati Explains Why We Sent Patient Cells to Space
Cover photo: Dr. Valentina Fossati (NYSCF) and Jason Stein (Aspen Neuroscience) prepare cells for launch. Photo credit: Space Tango Why send cells affected by multiple sclerosis...
How the Genetics of Blood Stem Cells Can Lead to Cancer and Heart Disease
The Context: All of our blood cells — including our immune cells — come from a special type of stem cells known as ‘hematopoietic stem cells’...
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Studying and Treating Parkinson’s Disease
Drugs that aim to treat Parkinson’s disease (PD) have not fared well in clinical trials, suggesting that there is more to PD than we currently understand....
Tackling COVID, Promoting Health Equity, and Delivering on the Promise of Regenerative Medicine: Highlights of the 2020 NYSCF Conference
“My oldest son, Andrew, is a cancer survivor,” said Tony Coles, MD, PhD, CEO of Cerevel Therapeutics. “He was afflicted with non-Hodgkins lymphoma when he...
Showing Up for Science: Celebrities and Stem Cells Take Center Stage at the NYSCF Gala
Hosted by CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta, MD, this year’s New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute Gala & Science Fair went virtual for the...
Gene Editing in Human Embryos Could Lead to an Unexpected Hazard
The Context: CRISPR gene editing holds a great deal of promise for correcting disease-causing mutations in humans, potentially as early as during embryonic development. However, before...
For People with This Genetic Defect, Overly Chatty Neurons May Underlie Schizophrenia Risk
The Context: 1 in 3,000 people has a genetic defect called 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, or 22q11DS, putting them at a greater risk for developing schizophrenia. However,...
Why the Microbes in a Mother’s Gut Could Matter for a Developing Baby’s Brain
The Context: Scientists know that the microbes in a mother’s gut can affect brain function in offspring, usually in response to stress, infection, or other adverse...
NYSCF Announces 2020 Class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators
Top row: Drs. Raffaella Di Micco, Samantha Morris, José Ordovás-Montañés. Bottom row: Drs. Jiami Guo, David Schneider, John Tuthill New York, NY (October 20, 2020) – The...
NYSCF Team Receives Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award from the National Academy of Medicine
We are pleased to share that NYSCF Senior Research Investigator Bjarki Johannesson, PhD, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Daniela Cornacchia, PhD, have received a Healthy...
New Insights into How SARS-CoV-2 Shuts Off the ‘Alarm System’ in Human Cells
The Context: Scientists now understand the symptoms of COVID-19 fairly well, but there are still many unknowns about what happens to cells that are infected by...
High School Students Take A Deep Dive Into Stem Cell Research
At the end of August, 39 high school students who attend different public, private, and charter schools across New York City and the Northeast and hail...
Organoids Just Gained Their Missing Ingredient: Functional Blood Vessels
The Context: Organoids – 3D structures of human tissue derived from stem cells – are a critical tool for helping researchers study diseases like cancer and...
A ‘Genetic Score’ to Predict Whether a Medication May Cause a Patient Liver Injury
The Context: Many drugs cause liver injury in certain patients, and this is a leading cause of acute liver failure in the United States. A major...
Experts Discuss the Latest in COVID-19 Research: Everything from Immunity to Stem Cells to Vaccines
It has been six months since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States at full force, leaving millions sick, out of work, and desperate for new...
Consortium Including NYSCF Scientists Receives Grant Award to Study Parkinson’s Disease Risk Factors
A multi-institutional team of scientists led by Lorenz Studer, MD (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) and including Gist Croft, PhD (The NYSCF Research Institute), NYSCF –...
A Summer Like No Other: Meet the Class of 2020 NYSCF Interns
“Incredible.” “Eclectic.” “Life-changing.” These are just a few words that the 2020 class of NYSCF interns have used to describe their summer. These 22 talented high...
A New Method for Studying the DNA You Only Inherit from Your Mom, and What It Reveals About Disease and Aging
The Context: Mitochondria are structures in our cells that carry their own DNA inherited only from our mothers and provide energy to help our bodies function....
Does Brain Inflammation Trigger Neurodegeneration? If So, it Could Open the Door for New Therapies
Today, more than 6 million Americans suffer from neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and multiple sclerosis, and as our society ages, that number is only...