In our latest video, “Spotlight on Muscular Dystrophy and Stem Cell Research” CIRM grantee and Stanford scientist Helen Blau illustrates new methods of modeling to more accurately map how a therapy might work in humans. Dr. Blau studies Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the most severe form of muscular dystrophy that affects 1 in 3500 boys … Continue reading Spotlight on Muscular Dystrophy and Stem Cell Research
Month: September 2013
Former CIRM board member’s personal story on chronic pain
On Thursdays, many Facebook pages celebrate “throwback Thursday” with old images. Today, our blog joins in with a look back at last year, when Philip Pizzo served as Dean of Stanford Medical School and sat on our governing board. Lloyd Minor has since replaced him in both roles. CIRM Chair Jonathan Thomas presents Philip Pizzo … Continue reading Former CIRM board member’s personal story on chronic pain
Through their lens: Erica Keane studies possible ways of applying a stem cell therapy for HIV in third world countries
This summer we're sponsoring high school interns in stem cell labs throughout California. We asked those students to contribute to our Instagram photos and YouTube videos about life in the lab, and write about their experiences.In addition to carrying out a stem cell research project, the students were expected to carry out a secondary project relating their work to … Continue reading Through their lens: Erica Keane studies possible ways of applying a stem cell therapy for HIV in third world countries
An Insider’s Guide to Stem Cells: new book looks at the good, the bad and the future of stem cell research
Paul Knoepfler in his lab at UC Davis: Photo courtesy of UC Davis Medical CenterPaul Knoepfler’s life changed one October day in 2009. For years Paul had been going into the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center as a stem cell researcher. But this day he was about to cross over to the other side, as … Continue reading An Insider’s Guide to Stem Cells: new book looks at the good, the bad and the future of stem cell research
UCSB high school intern: “great way for high school students to get exposed to a life in research”
Ami Thakrar working in the lab. She submitted this photo to our #CIRMStemCellLab Instagram feed.The Santa Barbara Independent has a piece today on the high school students who interned at the University of California, Santa Barbara this summer. Some of those students were part of our Creativity award program, which supported high school interns in stem cell … Continue reading UCSB high school intern: “great way for high school students to get exposed to a life in research”
UCSB high school intern: "great way for high school students to get exposed to a life in research"
Ami Thakrar working in the lab. She submitted this photo to our #CIRMStemCellLab Instagram feed.The Santa Barbara Independent has a piece today on the high school students who interned at the University of California, Santa Barbara this summer. Some of those students were part of our Creativity award program, which supported high school interns in stem cell … Continue reading UCSB high school intern: "great way for high school students to get exposed to a life in research"
An iPS cells introduction and primer
Shinya Yamanaka’s 2006 discovery that adult cells, such as skin, could be reprogrammed so that they behave like embryonic stem cells, has led to countless follow-up scientific studies, new understandings of human diseases, new strategies for developing drugs and stem-cell based therapies. It also led to a Nobel Prize in Medicine for Yamanaka and UK … Continue reading An iPS cells introduction and primer
Gene that controls stem cells tied to Down syndrome
People with Down syndrome have an extra copy of chromosome 21.Our grantees at Stanford have found that a gene they first identified while studying the origin of some cancers may also play a role in Down syndrome.This gene, called Usp16, appears to accelerate how quickly stem cells are used up throughout the body, including in … Continue reading Gene that controls stem cells tied to Down syndrome
CIRM website gets a fall cleaning: same content, different organization
We did a little fall cleaning over on the CIRM website, moving a few items around with the goal of making our content as intuitive as possible to navigate. All the content you know and love is still there, but some of it might be in a new place.Here's what prompted the reorg.When we first … Continue reading CIRM website gets a fall cleaning: same content, different organization
ASH, scientific society that fostered early stem cell transplants, publishes white paper on how to accelerate regenerative medicine
The American Society for Hematology (ASH) was founded in 1958, just a year before the first bone marrow transplants (BMT), which were really the first stem cell transplants. Those five transplants, performed by a French oncologist on Yugoslavian nuclear workers exposed to an overdose of radiation, failed. But shortly after that hematologists started the long … Continue reading ASH, scientific society that fostered early stem cell transplants, publishes white paper on how to accelerate regenerative medicine