How The Microscopic Residents in the Gut Could Be Critical For a Healthy Pregnancy
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...
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How Genes Interfere with the Brain’s ‘Brakes’ in Autism
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...
NYSCF Announces 2023 Class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators
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...
New Stem Cell Model Gives Glimpse into Embryonic Life
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,...
First Children in United Kingdom Born After Receiving Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy that NYSCF Helped Pioneer
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...
Boosting Bovine Breeding: Scientists Create Early Stage Cattle Embryos in the Lab
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...
How Octopuses and Squids Acquired New Senses
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...
Human Brain Cells Take Up Residence In Rat Brains to Illuminate the Secrets of Neuropsychiatric Disease
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...
Media Advisory: The NYSCF Annual Conference on Translational Stem Cell Research
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 is on a Quest to Treat Fragile X Syndrome
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:...
Munisha Mumingjiang is Getting Back to Basics to Understand the Placenta
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...
Why Do So Many Embryos Fail in IVF?
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)...
Science by the Sea: Highlights of the NYSCF Innovators Retreat
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...
Even Stem Cells Can Have An Identity Crisis: Here’s How Scientists Track It
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 Exciting Life of Inhibitory Neurons: Key Cells for Intelligence
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....
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...
Sergiu Pasca Awarded 2022 IBRO-Dargut and Milena Kemali International Prize for Research
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...
Sergiu Pasca Recognized For His Work to Understand the Developing Brain
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...
How the Soldiers of the Skin Protect Us from Infection
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...
Retracing How Our Brains Develop After Birth
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...
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...
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 Scientists Talk Space, Stem Cells, and their Pioneering Study of MS and PD
The International Space Station (ISS) houses more than astronauts: the football-field-sized spacecraft is also home to a large range of research projects carried out in the...
Roadmap of Brain Development Offers Insight into Autism and Schizophrenia
The Context: Studying brain development can be difficult since scientists cannot easily access developing brain tissue. Creating models of human brain development from stem cells allows...
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...