No one likes to be rejected. It hurts. But while rejection is something most of us experience at least a couple of times in our life, researchers at Stanford have found a way to reduce the risk of rejection, at least when it comes to one form of stem cells. Reporting in the latest issue … Continue reading What a Difference Differentiation can Make: a Little Change can Reduce the Risk of Rejection
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Stem Cell Stories that Caught our Eye: Lasers Regenerate Dental Tissue, European Commission Rejects Stem Cell Ban
Here are a couple of 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 for fun. Laser therapy spurs stem cells to repair teeth. Harvard University scientists have, for the first time, used a type of laser trigger … Continue reading Stem Cell Stories that Caught our Eye: Lasers Regenerate Dental Tissue, European Commission Rejects Stem Cell Ban
Slowing Down the Clock on Aging Hearts
It’s like something from a nightmare: a disease that ages you at a breakneck pace, so that by age 12, your body more closely resembles someone in their 80’s—inside and out. Instead of enjoying your childhood and adolescence, you suffer from diseases usually reserved for octogenarians: including heart disease, kidney failure and stroke. Chances are, … Continue reading Slowing Down the Clock on Aging Hearts
Scientists Successfully Test Stem Cell Therapy in Monkeys; Generate New Bone
Last week, researchers came that much closer to one day regrowing human bone lost to disease or injury. In the latest issue of the journal Cell Reports, scientists from the National Institutes of Health announced that they have transformed skin cells from rhesus macaque monkeys into new bone—marking the first time such a procedure has … Continue reading Scientists Successfully Test Stem Cell Therapy in Monkeys; Generate New Bone
Modeling Heart Disease: This Time on a Chip
Scientists at Harvard University have developed a new way to model congenital heart disease. Though researchers have previously generated heart cells derived from patients in a petri dish, this time scientists did so with groundbreaking ‘organ-on-a-chip’ technology—proving that this new type of technology can replicate a genetic disorder in the lab. The research, which was … Continue reading Modeling Heart Disease: This Time on a Chip
A date in time: a chronological history of stem cells
Stem cell research has advanced so rapidly in the last few years that it’s easy to forget that the field as a whole is still a relatively new one, dating back just a few decades; so the progress that’s being made is all the more remarkable for that.To illustrate how recent this area of research … Continue reading A date in time: a chronological history of stem cells
Pulling the Strings that Reprogram Cells
It was 2012, and the worldwide scientific community was laser focused on two scientists—separated by decades of research but together comprising two halves of a groundbreaking discovery: that mature, adult cells can be ‘reprogrammed’ back into a stem cell, or ‘pluripotent’ state. The scientists, John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka, were awarded the Nobel Prize … Continue reading Pulling the Strings that Reprogram Cells
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