Mighty mouse muscle cells We are often told that sleep is one of the most important elements of a healthy lifestyle, that it helps in the healing and repair of our heart and blood vessels – among other things. It turns out that sleep, or something very similar, is equally important for stem cells, helping … Continue reading Helping stem cells sleep can boost their power to heal
Month: May 2016
Stem cell stories that caught our eye: reducing radiation damage, making good cartilage, watching muscle repair and bar coding cells
Here are some stem cell stories that caught our eye this past week. Some are groundbreaking science, others are of personal interest to us, and still others are just fun. Stem cells key to reducing radiation damage. With the anniversary of Hiroshima and President Obama’s historic visit to the site all over the news this … Continue reading Stem cell stories that caught our eye: reducing radiation damage, making good cartilage, watching muscle repair and bar coding cells
Outsmarting cancer’s deadly tricks
Cancer cells are devious monsters that kill people by sabotaging normal cell functions toward a path of uncontrolled cell growth. Without an effective treatment, aggressive cancers can crowd out healthy tissue and ultimately cause organ failure and death. This devastation by design makes it seem as though a cancer cell has a mind of its … Continue reading Outsmarting cancer’s deadly tricks
More Good News From CIRM-Funded Spinal Cord Injury Trial
It’s been less than a year since we last reported on the CIRM-funded Asterias Biotherapeutics trial for spinal cord injury (SCI), and we already have more – still preliminary – but good news to share. The company recently released encouraging long-term follow-up results from their original Phase 1 clinical trial that suggest their stem cell … Continue reading More Good News From CIRM-Funded Spinal Cord Injury Trial
Free public event will detail the many ways stem cells are used in clinical trials today
The hundreds of active stem cell clinical trials being run in the US, and indeed around the world, provide ample evidence that our favorite cells are truly multi-talented. There are so many different ways researchers are using them to develop therapies we would be hard-pressed to name them all. However, most fall into five general … Continue reading Free public event will detail the many ways stem cells are used in clinical trials today
Why is a cell therapy that restores sight to the blind against the law?
A lot of people are frustrated with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and its woefully slow process for approving stem cell therapies. That’s one of the reasons why we started the CIRM Stem Cell Champions campaign, to gather as many like-minded supporters of stem cell research as possible and help to change the … Continue reading Why is a cell therapy that restores sight to the blind against the law?
In the Stem Cellar: making better blood stem cells, a heart guard, iPS model points to ALS drug and tracking cells
Here are some stem cell stories that caught our eye this past week. Some are groundbreaking science, others are of personal interest to us, and still others are just fun. Major step in creating blood stem cells. If you track stem cells in any online news search, your feed perpetually will have numerous posts about … Continue reading In the Stem Cellar: making better blood stem cells, a heart guard, iPS model points to ALS drug and tracking cells
What’s the big idea? Or in this case, what’s the 19 big ideas?
Have you ever stood in line in a supermarket checkout line and browsed through the magazines stacked conveniently at eye level? (of course you have, we all have). They are always filled with attention-grabbing headlines like “5 Ways to a Slimmer You by Christmas” or “Ten Tips for Rock Hard Abs” (that one doesn’t work … Continue reading What’s the big idea? Or in this case, what’s the 19 big ideas?
Adding new stem cell tools to the Parkinson’s disease toolbox
Understanding a complicated neurodegenerative disorder like Parkinson’s disease (PD) is no easy task. While there are known genetic risk factors that cause PD, only about 10 percent of cases are linked to a genetic cause. The majority of patients suffer from the sporadic form of PD, where the causes are unknown but thought to be … Continue reading Adding new stem cell tools to the Parkinson’s disease toolbox
You Call It Corn Stem Cells, We Call It An A-Maize-Ing Hope to Feed the World
Here at the Stem Cellar, we’re laser-beam focused on the exciting progress being made to bring stem cell-based treatments to patients with unmet medical needs. But what good will those life-saving treatments be if the patients end up starving from hunger? It’s a serious question to ask considering the world’s diminishing farmlands and yet another … Continue reading You Call It Corn Stem Cells, We Call It An A-Maize-Ing Hope to Feed the World
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