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. Matters of the heart not simple. The dozens of clinical trials using various types of stem cells to repair hearts after a heart attack have … Continue reading Stem cell stories that caught our eye: affairs of the heart, better imaging of cells and pituitary glands in a dish
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Stem cell stories that caught our eye: watching tumors grow, faster creation of stem cells, reducing spinal cord damage, mini organs
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. Video shows tumors growing. A team at the University of Iowa used video to capture breast cancer cells recruiting normal cells to the dark side … Continue reading Stem cell stories that caught our eye: watching tumors grow, faster creation of stem cells, reducing spinal cord damage, mini organs
Stem cell stories that caught our eye: colon cancer relapse and using age, electricity and a “mattress” to grow better hearts
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 yield markers for relapse in colon cancer. Some colon cancer patients do fine after surgery without any chemotherapy, but it has been hard … Continue reading Stem cell stories that caught our eye: colon cancer relapse and using age, electricity and a “mattress” to grow better hearts
Stem cell stories that caught our eye: Both parents’ diets impact health of offspring, also lab grown fallopian tubes and testicles
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. A special post on stem cells and reproductive health Mom needs to balance her Omegas. To produce a healthy baby with a robust brain you … Continue reading Stem cell stories that caught our eye: Both parents’ diets impact health of offspring, also lab grown fallopian tubes and testicles
Stem cell stories that caught our eye: reality check on chimeras, iPS cells for drug discovery and cell family history
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. iPS cells becoming foot soldiers of drug discovery. Here at The Stem Cellar we write often about the power of iPS-type stem cells to model … Continue reading Stem cell stories that caught our eye: reality check on chimeras, iPS cells for drug discovery and cell family history
CIRM’s clinical trial portfolio shows off stem cells’ many talents
When I first started working for California’s stem cell institute in 2008 I would never have guessed that we would be funding 15 clinical trials by the end of 2015. Medical science usually does not move that fast. But I, like most people back then, probably thought about stem cell science too narrowly, mostly as … Continue reading CIRM’s clinical trial portfolio shows off stem cells’ many talents
Stem cell stories that caught our eye: back repair, stem cell aging, babies for same sex couples, chimeras
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. Getting the right cells for back repair. We often write that stem cells found in fat tissue can form bone, cartilage and other connective tissue. … Continue reading Stem cell stories that caught our eye: back repair, stem cell aging, babies for same sex couples, chimeras
The bottom line: stem cell therapies will never be widely available if insurers won’t pay for them
The second session of the World Stem Cell Summit in Atlanta moved past all the promising science and right to the nitty-gritty of making cell-based therapies common. Four panelists reminded the audience that while they too are super excited by the potential for this field, unless folks developing therapies think about reimbursement early those therapies … Continue reading The bottom line: stem cell therapies will never be widely available if insurers won’t pay for them
Stem cell stories that caught our eye: growing better bone, synthetic diaphragms, nerves that make music
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. A better way to grow bone. The term hydrogel gets tossed around a lot in tissue engineering discussions. The porous, generally pliable materials used to … Continue reading Stem cell stories that caught our eye: growing better bone, synthetic diaphragms, nerves that make music
CIRM’s clinical trial portfolio: Two teams tackle blindness, macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa
More than seven million people in the US struggle to see. While most are not completely blind they have difficulty with, or simply can’t do, daily tasks most of us take for granted. CIRM has committed more than $100 million to 17 projects trying to solve this unmet medical need. Two of those projects have … Continue reading CIRM’s clinical trial portfolio: Two teams tackle blindness, macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa
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