The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) recently announced its 2024 award recipients, with NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Jun Wu, PhD, of UT...
The Context: Brain organoids – 3D avatars of human brain tissue made from stem cells – are a revolutionary tool for studying disease. However, it has...
The Context: Glia – the brain’s helper cells – are often overlooked in disease research, but are known to play both supportive roles for neurons, and...
The Context: The gut microbiome (the millions of bacterial residents living in the intestines) has a hand in more than you might realize: everything from mental...
The Context: Scientists have identified hundreds of genes that could play a role in neurodevelopmental disorders like autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but how exactly these genes...
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) today announced the 2023 class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators, welcoming three outstanding stem cell researchers into the NYSCF...
The Context: Human embryonic development is a critical component of human life, and is a stage during which many conditions – including developmental disorders, birth defects,...
News reports out of the United Kingdom detail the births of the first children who have undergone mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) – a technique that NYSCF...
The Context: Livestock breeding is an especially important part of food production and the American economy, but the process can be difficult and unpredictable. Developing approaches...
The Context: Octopus and squid tentacles are home to a complex nervous system that lets them sense their external environments, even being able to taste what...
The Context: Neuropsychiatric disorders are notoriously hard to study due to their complexity and the inaccessibility of human brain tissue for experimentation. However, recent advances in...
The New York Stem Cell Foundation’s (NYSCF) 16th Annual Conference convenes global leaders in stem cell research to present their latest progress towards treatments and cures...
Spencer Haws might be relatively new to the field of stem cells, but he’s diving in head first to understand a disease with few treatment options:...
For NYSCF – Druckenmiller Postdoctoral Fellow Munisha Mumingjiang, MD, PhD, of Cornell University, a planned career as an OB/GYN sparked a drive to understand a notoriously...
The Context: Early human embryos created for IVF (in which an egg is fertilized and grown outside the body before being implanted to begin a pregnancy)...
This month, the NYSCF – Robertson Investigators, NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellows, and NYSCF Research Institute scientists gathered (in-person for the first time in two years) in...
The Context: All of the cells in our body perform different functions: red blood cells carry oxygen, pancreas cells produce insulin, liver cells break down fat,...
The Context: The brain has two major types of neurons: excitatory neurons that fire to activate other neurons, and inhibitory neurons that restrain their fellow neurons....
New York, NY (October 19, 2021) – The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) today announced the 2021 class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators, welcoming six...
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Sergiu P. Pasca, MD, of Stanford University, has been awarded the 2022 IBRO-Dargut and Milena Kemali International Prize for Research...
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Sergiu Pasca, MD, of Stanford University has dedicated himself to understanding the brain: how it develops, how it works, and...
The Problem: Our skin serves as an important barrier between us and the outside world, preventing a large array of possible infections from harming us. How...
The Problem: Brain organoids, 3D models of brain tissue created from stem cells, have recently become very useful for studying brain development and disease. While they...
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...
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...
