Image description: T cell infected with HIV. Image Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) In June of last year we wrote about how Dr. Scott Kitchen and his team at UCLA are engineering blood forming stem cells in order to fight HIV, a potentially deadly virus that attacks the immune system and … Continue reading CIRM funding helps improve immune cell therapy to combat HIV
Month: April 2021
Hitting our Goals: Let’s start at the beginning shall we
Way, way back in 2015 – seems like a lifetime ago doesn’t it – the team at CIRM sat down and planned out our Big 6 goals for the next five years. The end result was a Strategic Plan that was bold, ambitious and set us on course to do great things or kill ourselves … Continue reading Hitting our Goals: Let’s start at the beginning shall we
Meet xenobots 2.0 – the next generation of living robots
Xenobots scurry about and can work together in swarms. Source: Doug Blackiston Last year we wrote about how researchers at the University of Vermont and Tufts University were able to create what they call xenobots – the world’s first living, self healing robots created from frog stem cells. Now, the same team has created an … Continue reading Meet xenobots 2.0 – the next generation of living robots
The Stem Cellar 