Avoiding the hippocampus during whole-brain radiotherapy prevents cognitive side effects (Adonica Shaw) Whole-brain radiotherapy can be delivered more safely to patients with brain metastases by avoiding the hippocampus according to a new phase III trial. At the beginning of the study, scientists hypothesized that radiation to the hippocampal stem cells played a role in cognitive … Continue reading Stories Caught our Eye: Advances in Brain Radiotherapy, and a New Drug Discovery in Schizophrenia
Author: Adonica Shaw
Research Transforming Mature Neurons into Dopamine Factories could Help Fight Brain Diseases
A team of researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center made a startling discovery that could improve patient outcomes for neurological diseases. And they did it completely by accident. Scientists have long believed that turning one type of mature cell into another is impossible without first reverting the original cell back into a … Continue reading Research Transforming Mature Neurons into Dopamine Factories could Help Fight Brain Diseases
Join us for our next installment of “Ask The Stem Cell Team” on November 1st.
Visual impairment and vision loss can have a profound impact on a person’s ability to live their life and complete their daily routine. According to the report for the 2016 National Health Interview Survey, 25.5 million Adult Americans 18 and older reported experiencing vision loss. Of these 25.5 million American adults, 15.3 million women and … Continue reading Join us for our next installment of “Ask The Stem Cell Team” on November 1st.
Coproduction : Patient Advocacy Redefined
Almost 15 years ago, California voters via approval of Proposition 71 authorized $3 billion to create the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). CIRM, otherwise known as California’s Stem Cell Agency, accelerates stem cell treatments for patients with unmet medical needs. Along with the fact that CIRM has pioneered the way for cutting edge science, … Continue reading Coproduction : Patient Advocacy Redefined
A Recap: Meeting on the Mesa
By: Shyam Patel Over 1200 business and science leaders in regenerative medicine descended upon an uncharacteristically cloudy San Diego last week for the annual Cell and Gene Meeting on the Mesa. Reflecting the general growth and enthusiasm in the industry the meeting attracts so many attendees now that it is forced to move to a … Continue reading A Recap: Meeting on the Mesa
The CIRM Alpha Clinics Highlight the Critical Role of Nurses in Regenerative Medicine
By: Geoffrey Lomax Dr. PHD In August, I had the pleasure of representing CIRM at California’s first conference dedicated entirely to training nurses and health professionals about cellular therapies. The City of Hope Alpha Stem Cell Clinic sponsored the program titled: Critical Role of Nursing Cellular Therapies. The Alpha Clinic at City of Hope has … Continue reading The CIRM Alpha Clinics Highlight the Critical Role of Nurses in Regenerative Medicine
3 Must Watch TEDx Talks About Stem Cell Research
TEDx talks are an excellent resource to learn about a myriad of subjects. They’re available on almost any subject and you can watch most of them in 18 minutes or less. This week instead of our traditional roundup, we are featuring a roundup of talks that caught our eye by speakers who are involved with … Continue reading 3 Must Watch TEDx Talks About Stem Cell Research
Skin stem cells take cues from their neighbors during self-renewal
Our body’s largest organ, the skin, regenerates itself on a weekly basis. To accomplish this goal, it maintains a self-renewing population of stem cells that can become the many different types of cells found within the skin. This self-renewal, however, must be tightly regulated because uncontrolled cell division can lead to disease like cancer. Investigators … Continue reading Skin stem cells take cues from their neighbors during self-renewal
Stem Cell Stories that Caught Our Eye: Human Eggs From Stem Cells, A New Way to Heal Broken Bones and A Lab Grown Esophagus
Stem cell image of the week: Immature human eggs (pink) were created by Japanese researchers using stem cells that were derived from blood cells. A team of Japanese scientists say they have taken an important step toward creating human eggs in a lab dish. Their work, which was reported Thursday in the journal Science, outlined their research and explained … Continue reading Stem Cell Stories that Caught Our Eye: Human Eggs From Stem Cells, A New Way to Heal Broken Bones and A Lab Grown Esophagus
New Method to Create Human Neural Stem Cells May Regenerate Spine in Rats
Scientists at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have created spinal cord neural stem cells (NSC) from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), which could feasibly represent a source of transplantable cells for repairing spinal cord injuries. The research, which was published in the journal Nature Methods, showed that the human spinal … Continue reading New Method to Create Human Neural Stem Cells May Regenerate Spine in Rats
The Stem Cellar 