The Surprising Double Life of a Parkinson’s-Related Protein
The Context: The major hallmark of Parkinson’s disease is an accumulation of a protein in the brain called alpha-synuclein. While alpha-synuclein has been the focal point...
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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...
To Achieve Precision Medicine, Diverse Stem Cell Biobanks are Key
Even though breakthroughs in biomedical research have reduced mortality for most major diseases of our time, the gaps in mortality between ethnic minorities and white patients...
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,...
What Makes You Smell Tasty to a Mosquito? And How Do They Hunt You Down?
The Context: Mosquitos are notorious superspreaders for diseases like Zika, dengue, and yellow fever, and scientists know that in some parts of the world, they hunt...
When Good Brain Cells Go Bad: New Findings from NYSCF and Johns Hopkins Precision Medicine Initiative
The Context: Astrocytes are support cells in the brain that help our neurons function properly. However, these typically helpful cells can ‘go rogue’ or ‘reactive’ in...
Replacing the Brain’s Cleanup Machinery to Treat Neurological Disease
The Context: Microglia are resident immune cells of the brain that are constantly patrolling the central nervous system to eliminate dead or damaged cells. Defects in...
Unproven Stem Cell Therapies: Experts Discuss How To Protect Yourself From This Global Health Issue
Off the side of the highway, between billboards for amusement parks and car dealerships, you may have encountered a new type of advertisement: “Cure your arthritis!”...
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....
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...
Experts Explore the Power of Artificial Intelligence in Brain Disease Research
How is artificial intelligence (AI) augmenting and improving disease research? A group representing several facets of the disease experience recently gathered to discuss how new research...
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Uncover Hidden Signatures of Parkinson’s Disease
New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute collaborates with Google Research to identify new cellular characteristics of disease in skin cells from Parkinson’s patients NEW...
Hidden Signatures of Parkinson’s Disease Revealed by NYSCF’s Automation Technology and Artificial Intelligence
The Context: The vast majority of drugs fail clinical trials, largely because there is still much we do not understand about the underpinnings of complex diseases...
Show Yourself: Making Leukemia Visible To The Immune System Could Prevent Relapse
The Context: The most common treatment for acute myeloid leukemia is bone marrow transplant, in which healthy stem cells are infused into the bloodstream of the...
How Your Gut Tells Your Brain That You’re Hydrated
The Context: It might only take a couple seconds after a gulp of water to no longer feel thirsty, but for your brain to know you’re...
What are Stem Cells, and How Can They Accelerate Better Treatments for Disease?
Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, cancer: they’re all diseases that are, to this day, largely a mystery, and treatment options are scarce. But thanks to stem cells,...
Fostering STEM Education Through A Lifetime: From Student to Scientist
Science affects everyone, and has never been more important. To enable meaningful progress, we need to support and inspire people of all ages to engage with...
Vijay Sankaran Reflects On the Transformational Impact of the NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Award and Innovator Community
The offer to start your own laboratory is a crowning achievement as a scientist. Having secured your first independent position, you are already brimming with ideas...
Advancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in STEM: Defining Challenges and Actionable Strategies
For NYSCF, promoting equity in the scientific workforce is mission-critical: we need 100% of the available brainpower to reach treatments and cures as quickly as possible....
Students Explore Gene Editing and Careers in STEM
Gene editing is an exciting field with enormous potential to help researchers improve our understanding of gene function and develop ways to potentially treat and cure...
2021 in Review
2021 has been a banner year for science. With your support, we opened a new laboratory for creating clinical-grade cells to treat blindness, created stem cell...
NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon Named to Mayor-Elect Eric Adams’ Corporate Council
NYC Mayor-elect Eric Adams recently named NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon to a new Corporate Council of New York finance, technology, real estate and media executives....
Persisting Even When a Pandemic Delays a PhD: Meet Jenna Hall
When COVID-19 hit, Jenna Hall’s plans were completely upended. Set to embark on a PhD at the University of Melbourne in Australia, border closures meant an...
Boosters, Vaccines for Children, and the Future: Deepta Bhattacharya Tells Us What to Expect Next From the Pandemic
As the delta variant continues to spread rapidly and vaccine boosters begin, many obstacles remain before us in the COVID-19 pandemic. Expert immunologist and NYSCF —...
Translating Discoveries into Medicine, Advancing Equity in Science, and New Cancer Therapies: Watch Highlights of the 2021 NYSCF Conference
On October 19th and 20th, we hosted the sixteenth annual NYSCF Conference on translational stem cell research. This year’s meeting, held virtually for the second consecutive...