Giving Cells an Invisibility Cloak
The Context: Cell therapies hold enormous promise for treating many of today’s most devastating diseases, but for them to be effective, we have to ensure that...
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World’s First CRISPR-Based Gene Therapy Approved by FDA
In an exciting step towards a new treatment, an FDA panel has approved a therapy for sickle cell disease that employs CRISPR gene editing. The decision...
Beyond Bacteria: A New Gene Editing Tool Revealed in Complex Life
The Context: CRISPR is a powerful gene editing tool that allows scientists to make changes in the DNA of cells for research or treatment purposes. The...
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...
She Took it Personally: How a Type 1 Diabetes Diagnosis Inspired Josephine Wesely to Become a Scientist
NYSCF Principal Scientist Josephine (Josi) Wesely, PhD, was probably the only kid who showed up to her doctor’s appointments with scientific papers in hand. “I was...
Meet the Nano-Syringe that Could Revolutionize Gene Therapy
The Context: Gene therapies hold a great deal of promise for treating a wide range of diseases. For the gene therapy to be effective, however, proteins...
The Gist of Gene Editing: Inside Biomedicine’s Hottest Tool
Gene editing: you’ve likely heard of it before, but what is the science behind biomedicine’s most versatile new star? How is it used for research and...
Uncovering New Treatment Options for a Rare Disease
The Context: INAD is a rare neurological disease affecting children, often referred to as a “pediatric Parkinson’s,” which is typically diagnosed between six months to three...
What Can Make Leukemia Extra Aggressive?
The Context: All our blood cells are created in the bone marrow by blood-forming stem cells, and when this process goes awry, leukemia can arise. Scientists...
Stem Cells, mRNA Vaccines, and Snakes: An Evening with Derrick Rossi
Earlier this month, NYSCF hosted an intimate conversation with Interim CEO Derrick Rossi, PhD, who shared the journey of his already long and storied career in...
Scientist, Entrepreneur, and Hockey Dad: Meet NYSCF Interim CEO Derrick Rossi
Even if you don’t know Derrick Rossi, PhD, you almost certainly know Moderna: the company behind mRNA vaccine technology he co-founded that is protecting millions from...
The NYSCF Conference Returns in Person to Showcase Seminal Advances in Translational Stem Cell Research
On October 18th and 19th, we hosted the seventeenth annual NYSCF Conference at The Rockefeller University, convening in person again after two years of virtual meetings....
Women’s Reproductive Cancers Are Among The Most Deadly And Most Neglected. How Do We Fix This?
The American Cancer Society estimates that nearly 20,000 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2022, and 12,000 of them will die. Survival rates have...
The Stem Cell Science You Won’t Want to Miss at The NYSCF Conference
Annually for the past 15 years, the NYSCF Conference has showcased the latest cutting-edge findings in translational stem cell research, gathering world-renowned multi-disciplinary speakers and 500+...
Showing Up for Science: Celebrities and Stem Cells Take Center Stage at the NYSCF Gala
Hosted by CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta, MD, this year’s New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute Gala & Science Fair went virtual for the...
Gene Editing in Human Embryos Could Lead to an Unexpected Hazard
The Context: CRISPR gene editing holds a great deal of promise for correcting disease-causing mutations in humans, potentially as early as during embryonic development. However, before...
NYSCF Announces 2020 Class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators
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...
A New Method for Studying the DNA You Only Inherit from Your Mom, and What It Reveals About Disease and Aging
The Context: Mitochondria are structures in our cells that carry their own DNA inherited only from our mothers and provide energy to help our bodies function....
Meet LADL: A New Technology for Controlling DNA Folding
The Context: To fit inside the nucleus of our cells, our DNA crumples up, forming loops and making itself compact. When certain sequences of looped DNA...
Gene Editing: The Science, Ethics, and Promise of a Revolutionary Technology
Perhaps in the past few years, you’ve started to hear more about CRISPR gene editing— the revolutionary technique that allows us to precisely manipulate the DNA...
NYSCF Inks Strategic Partnership with Ngene Therapeutics
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...
Why We Need Stem Cell Avatars: Susan Solomon Speaks at IGNITION Conference
“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...
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...
NYSCF Announces 2018 Class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators
NEW YORK, NY (October 23, 2018) – The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) announced the 2018 class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators, welcoming six of...
How Can Stem Cells Help Us Understand Rare Disease?
In a new article from the patient advocacy and research nonprofit Jordan’s Guardian Angels, NYSCF speaks about its work creating induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with Jordan’s...