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At the root of every major disease of our time is the simple question: what is going wrong with our cells? Once scientists know exactly how...
At the root of every major disease of our time is the simple question: what is going wrong with our cells? Once scientists know exactly how...
“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...
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...
The Context: We’ve all heard that stress can turn your hair gray. But there hasn’t been much scientific evidence that this is true — and if...
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...
The Context: Stem cells are advantageous for disease research because of their ability to become any type of cell in the body, allowing scientists to see...
The Context: Humans inherit two sets of genes, one from each biological parent. Some of these genes have only one parent’s copy activated, while the other...
The key to fixing many devastating diseases and injuries could very well lie in regenerative medicine. The secret? Stem cell research. At NYSCF’s recent event, “Stem...
The NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellowship Program supports the most talented postdoctoral scientists at critical junctures in their careers who are in the pursuit of innovative and...
The Context: What makes stem cells special is their ability to turn into other cell types in the body (a characteristic called “pluripotency”). Our understanding of...
Building a strong community of researchers committed to advancing cutting-edge science is critical for getting treatments and cures to patients as quickly as possible. Because of...
“We had the foundational tools we needed to move our research from academia to biotech,” remarked NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Alumnus Dr. Paul Tesar. “We had...
Last week, thousands of researchers and thought leaders gathered at the annual Phacilitate Leaders World and World Stem Cell Summit in Miami to discuss recent advancements...
Research teams will use stem cell and gene editing technologies to advance cell-based therapies for devastating diseases New York, New York (January 9, 2019) – The...
“It takes 13 years—after you have sunk 4 billion dollars into a drug—to figure out whether or not it will succeed, and your chance of being...
Our skin is made up of three layers. The top layer – the epidermis – contains epithelial cells, which provide a barrier between us and the...
“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...
The Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (HSCRB) has announced that Dr. Paola Arlotta, the Golub Family Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, will serve as chair of the...
Even after multiple rounds of chemotherapy, cancer patients can relapse. Whether they relapse or not depends on the activity of cells in their tumors: if the...
NYSCF congratulates Marius Wernig, MD, PhD, for receiving the 2018 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize from the Gladstone Institutes for his work in cellular reprogramming and stem...
New collaboration aims to develop better therapies New York, NY (August 1, 2018) – The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute today announced a...
Protocol adds a new cell type enabling myelination in human ‘mini-brains’ for laboratory research New York, NY (July 25, 2018) – In a collaborative study between...
Last week, the annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) convened over 3500 participants in Melbourne, Australia to share the latest advances...
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology led by NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Mitchell Guttman, PhD, have developed a new tool called SPRITE to uncover how...
According to a new study from NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Alumnus and NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Prize recipient Marius Wernig, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in the Institute...