Understanding Brain Regeneration in Axolotls
Axolotls have the ability to regenerate multiple organs, including their brains, throughout the course of their lives. This makes them an ideal model to study brain...
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NYSCF Innovator Studies 3D Genome Architecture During Stem Cell Reprogramming
The 3D structure of a cell’s genetic code, or genome, helps guide genetic expression. Though it is known that this structure is rearranged in somatic cells...
NYSCF Team Uses The Power of Stem Cells To Understand Brain Cell Development
NYSCF Principal Investigator Dr. Valentina Fossati and a team of NYSCF Research Institute scientists continued to unravel the mysteries of multiple sclerosis with her latest paper...
NYSCF Innovator Sheds Light on Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Kristen Brennand, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, used advanced stem cell technology to support the hypothesis that...
NYSCF Innovator Illuminates Thought Processes
When people recall memories or make decisions neurons are activated and signals are shuttled through a sequence of these brain cells. NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator...
Decoding How Brains Respond to Positive and Negative Memories
The incredible advances in technology over the past two decades have given scientists the power to map the human brain. Researchers now know where in the...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Feng Zhang Receives 2016 Canada Gairdner Award
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Dr. Feng Zhang received the 2016 Canada Gairdner Award for his work developing revolutionary tools to edit DNA in establishing and enhancing...
Stem Cell Treatments
NYSCF does not treat patients with stem cell therapies. Please visit www.clinicaltrials.gov for a complete listing of clinical trials being conducted worldwide, or consult your physician. Stem cell research...
NYSCF Investigator Chills Brains to Understand Language
NYSCF-Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Michael A. Long, NYU, cooled areas of the brain associated with speech to see the effects on patients. Previously, neuroscientists have relied on...
Raising the bar on quality cells
NYSCF wants to transform stem cell treatments from dreams to reality. In order to move stem cell-based cures from the theoretical and into clinics, scientists must...
NYSCF Innovators Awarded Highest Honor by U.S. Government for Early Career Scientists
Every year, the President awards a group of scientists with the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. This year, two NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience...
NYSCF Investigator Understands Loneliness Under a Microscope
Scientists understand that socializing triggers the brain’s reward system. Brain cells in a specific region of the brain secrete dopamine, a chemical involved in addiction, movement...
Susan L. Solomon Interviewed by Women’s Health Podcast
NYSCF CEO and Co-founder Susan L. Solomon spoke with Women’s Health’s Online Senior Editor Caitlin Abber for their new podcast “Uninterrupted.” Ms. Solomon participated in a...
The Wall Street Journal Profiles NYSCF CEO and Co-Founder Susan L. Solomon
The Wall Street Journal profiled Susan L. Solomon, NYSCF CEO and Co-Founder. Part of the “Weekend Confidential” series, previously headlining Robert A.M. Stern, Tom Colicchio, and...
The New York Stem Cell Foundation Applauds the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Report on Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) applauds the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Institute of Medicine (IOM) report released on February 3rd, 2016...
Advancing Women in Science
An eager audience of women and men gathered at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to hear NYSCF CEO and Co-founder Susan L. Solomon...
Dr. Ed Boyden Awarded 2016 BBVA Foundation Award
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Ed Boyden, MIT Media Lab, has won the 2016 biomedicine BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for his work developing...
NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Discovery May Help Modulate Immune System
NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Larry Luchsinger, PhD, studies the energy producing centers of the cell, mitochondria, to better understand the cells that produce blood cells, hematopoietic...
NYSCF Mourns The Death of Drew Lyall
The New York Stem Cell Foundation is deeply saddened by the death of Drew Lyall, the inaugural executive director of the Stem Cell Network in Canada....
NYSCF Innovator Deciphers How Birds Learn Songs to Elucidate How to Help Brain Injury Patients
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Michael A. Long studies how birds learn songs to understand how patients might re-learn skills following traumatic injuries. Dr. Long, New...
NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Researches How to Help Lungs Repair Themselves
NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Zhongwei Cao, PhD, conducts research that may yield breakthrough treatments for lung injury. Dr. Cao, Weill Cornell Medical College, focuses on experiments...
NYSCF Quoted in The Wall Street Journal on Experimental Alzheimer’s Drug Testing
Bringing treatments out of laboratories and into clinics remains a major obstacle for healthcare. Mice and other common lab animals cannot reliably predict human responses to...
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Identifies Mutant Protein Function in Cancer
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Ravindra Majeti studies cancer stem cells in leukemia towards creating high quality and patient-specific treatments. Dr. Majeti, Associate Professor in...
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Examines How Fruit Flies Process Odors
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Vanessa Ruta examined how the brains of fruit flies pass signals from odors to different behavioral pathways. Dr. Ruta, Rockefeller University,...
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Discovers Brain Networks Relate Facial Information To Social Cognition
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Winrich Freiwald, The Rockefeller University, published his latest paper understanding how mammals make sense of faces in PLoS Biology. Faces...