How Do We End the Pandemic? Experts Discuss the Path Forward.
There is finally a light at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic tunnel, thanks to a historic vaccine development effort. What will it take to bring...
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NYSCF Research Institute Named One of Four New Biotech R&D Facilities by NYC
The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) announced an investment in four new biotech research and development facilities, including the NYSCF Research Institute. This grant...
COVID-19 Vaccines Are Finally Here: Experts Discuss How to Distribute Them Efficiently and Ethically
After a long 10 months, COVID-19 vaccines are finally here. The next obstacle? Determining how to distribute them efficiently, ethically, and economically. Last week, experts in...
Creating a Human Nerve Circuit in a Dish to Study Movement Disorders
The Context: Neuromuscular disorders such as ALS arise from degeneration of brain cells that send signals to the muscles, and there are no treatments that address...
Moderna Founder Derrick Rossi Explains How mRNA-Based COVID-19 Vaccines Work and Why They Should Make You Hopeful for 2021
Watch the Fireside Chat video and read the summary below. After a historic research effort, COVID-19 vaccines are already here. Several of these vaccines, including the...
A New Method for Predicting How Prosthetic Implants Will Behave in the Human Body
The Context: Prosthetic implants are regularly used in dentistry and orthopedics, and there are an estimated 2 million Americans living with limb loss today. Most prosthetic...
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...
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...