Growing Tiny Arteries to Fix Big Heart Problems
The Context: When a major heart artery is blocked, the oxygen-starved areas of the heart are kept healthy by smaller arteries called collateral arteries. Some people...
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Translational Research Takes Center Stage at NYSCF Conference
“Medicine shouldn’t be one size fits all,” National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Francis Collins told the audience of the NYSCF Conference last week. “Think...
To Spark The Growth Of Arteries, We Might Need To Slow Down The Process That Makes Them
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator and Stanford University Assistant Professor of Biology Kristy Red-Horse, PhD, studies how to fix broken hearts. She is interested in examining how...
The Key To A Strong Heart Could Lie With Blood Vessels
The heart is made of muscle, and for it to function properly, that muscle has to be strong and durable. A condition called left ventricular non-compaction...
Using Stem Cells to Study the Nervous System
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Gabsang Lee and a team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University recently reported that a type of lab-grown human...
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...
NYSCF Scientists Investigate Inflammatory Response After Cardiac Injury
NYSCF Principal Investigator Dr. Danny Freytes led a team of NYSCF scientists at the NYSCF Research Institute in a study investigating the inflammatory response of the...
Cardiac Research and Repair
Stem Cell research has unprecedented potential to improve treatment for and ultimately preventing heart disease due to the unique capability of stem cells for self-renewal, differentiation...
Damage Stalled, Stopped in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Mouse Model
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare genetic disorder, leads to muscle death and the formation of scar tissue due to a mutant copy of the dystrophin...
New Method Directly Converts Heart Muscle to Pacemaker Cells
The expression of a single gene can directly convert heart muscle cells to cardiac pacemaker cells (i.e. SAN cells) both in an animal and a dish....
Two Studies Reveal Possible Heart Attack Treatment with Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Two studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association assess the efficacy and safety of mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) treatment on heart attack patients....
DNA Packaging Plays Critical Role in Cardiac Cell Differentiation
University of Washington researchers uncovered a regulator for cardiac cell differentiation from embryonic stem cells. Led by Sharon Paige, they investigated the genetic controls over the...
Highlights of Stem Cell Research: Mending Broken Hearts
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) held its seventh annual spring public outreach event to bring together global experts on heart disease, bioethics, and stem...
Mending the Failing Heart with a Vascularized Cardiac Patch
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 »
Stem Cells Derived from Adult Testes Produce Wide Range of Tissue Types for Therapeutic Organ Regeneration
HHMI Press Release “After a decade of research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientists have succeeded in reprogramming adult stem cells from the testes of male mice...