Brittle Bones Begone: New Findings Uncover Why Our Bones Get Weaker with Age
The Context: Our bones get more fragile as we age, leading to increased risk of disease or injury, but why exactly this happens on a cellular...
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How the Body’s ‘Zip Code’ Proteins Help Heal Our Bones As We Age
The Context: Our bones keep specialized pools of stem cells on hand to aid in general upkeep and injury repair throughout our lives, but this process...
Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, But Sophie Morgani Will Fix Them With Stem Cells
In NYSCF – Druckenmiller Postdoctoral Fellow Sophie Morgani’s lab, run by Philipp Leucht at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, there’s a bit of a curse....
NYSCF Announces 2021 Class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators
New York, NY (October 19, 2021) – The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) today announced the 2021 class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators, welcoming six...
Giuseppe Maria de Peppo Shares Advancements In Bone and Tissue Engineering Alongside Leading Experts
With more than 6 million bone fractures occurring in the United States each year and more than 200 million people worldwide suffering from osteoporosis, we are...
Nanoengineering Opens the Door For Better Bone Transplants
The Context: Human bone requires a certain environment within the body to grow, and recreating this environment outside of the body has enormous potential for understanding...
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...
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...
What’s the Best Way to Preserve Personalized Bone Grafts?
The Context: After a bone graft is created from stem cells, it will likely have to be preserved for a while before it reaches a patient....
Precision Medicine and the Power of Stem Cells: Highlights of the 2019 NYSCF Conference
In 2006, Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, made a discovery that revolutionized biomedical research and earned him a Nobel Prize. His lab found that stem cells, the...
Three is Better Than One: Three-Organoid System Opens Door for More Comprehensive Study and Treatment of Liver Diseases
The Context: Organoids (3D aggregates of human tissue made from stem cells) are advantageous for studying disease and development since they recapitulate the way different cell...
A New Soldier Against Skin Cancer: The Hair Follicle
The Context: Some genetic mutations are risk factors for developing diseases such as cancer. However, while certain mutations may lead to cancer in some tissues, they...
NYSCF Scientists Make Strides in Creation of Clinical-Grade Bone
Research team finds that mesenchymal progenitors can be grown without use of animal-derived compounds New York, NY (January 14, 2019) – A team of scientists from...
NYSCF Scientists Make Progress Toward Clinical-Grade Bone
What They Did: A team of NYSCF scientists led by NYSCF – Ralph Lauren Senior Principal Investigator Dr. Giuseppe Maria de Peppo tested whether mesenchymal progenitor...
Dr. Valentina Greco Uncovers the Secrets Behind Skin and Hair Regeneration
Our skin is made up of three layers. The top layer – the epidermis – contains epithelial cells, which provide a barrier between us and the...
NYSCF Scientists Interviewed About New Bone Engineering Technique by RegMedNet
NYSCF researchers recently published a study outlining an exciting new bioengineering process (called Segmental Additive Tissue Engineering, or “SATE”) that allows scientists to create large scale,...
NYSCF Scientists Determine Best Material for Creating Bone Grafts from Stem Cells
In a new study published in Tissue Engineering, Part A, NYSCF Research Institute scientists led by NYSCF – Ralph Lauren Senior Principal Investigator Giuseppe Maria de...
NYSCF Researchers Develop New Way to Build Personalized Bone
Over a million individuals per year will suffer from a fracture due to bone diseases such as cancer or osteoporosis. From traumatic injuries to genetic malformation...
NYSCF Researchers Develop Novel Bioengineering Technique for Personalized Bone Grafts
Scientists from the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute have developed a new bone engineering technique called Segmental Additive Tissue Engineering (SATE). The technique,...
Creating Bar Codes For Organoids
A new method pioneered by NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Takanori Takebe, MD, Assistant Professor at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Associate Professor at Yokohama City University,...
Lab-Grown Liver and Gut Tissue Without Tumors
Researchers from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Yokohama City University in Japan led by NYSCF — Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Takanori Takebe, MD, have developed a technique...
NYSCF Innovator Bioengineers Human Liver Tissue
A big issue surrounding liver transplants is that there aren’t enough livers to go around. Patients can end up on extensive waiting lists, unsure if they’ll...
Cutting-Edge Research Highlights The NYSCF Conference
Leaders in stem cell biology and researchers at the forefront of translational medicine convened at the 2016 NYSCF Conference to discuss the latest advances in using...
NYSCF Announces the Six Members of the 2016 Class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators
NYSCF announced the 2016 class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators, welcoming six of the most talented stem cell researchers and neuroscientists from around the world into...
Researcher Spotlight | Dr. Danny Freytes, NYSCF Principal Investigator
NYSCF sat down with Principal Investigator Dr. Danny Freytes, to talk about his path to bioengineering and stem cell research, and his recent paper in Journal...