While researching embryonic stem cells, scientists at the UNC School of Medicine discovered that by housing a protein called Bax in its active form in the Golgi, embryonic stem cells are primed to kill themselves if damage to their DNA makes them a threat to the developing embryo. Chapel Hill, North Carolina – Embryonic stem [...]

A new study shows that genetically engineered stem cells can be used as HIV-fighting cells. Researchers at UCLA were able to expand on previous research and demonstrated for the first time stem cells engineered to form immune cells that target HIV are effective in suppressing the virus in living tissues. Expanding on previous research providing [...]

A new study showed that locomotion could be restored in mice with a Huntington’s-like condition by using GABA neurons forged from human embryonic stem cells. The study shows that the cells integrated into the brain, projected to the right target and effectively reestablished the broken communication network, restoring motor function. MADISON – Huntington’s disease, the [...]

While studying the common fruit fly, UCLA stem cell researchers found that blood stem cells are receiving systemic signals from insulin and nutritional factors, which helped them from differentiating into blood cells. UCLA stem cell researchers have shown that insulin and nutrition prevent blood stem cells from differentiating into mature blood cells in Drosophila, the [...]

As a result of organ transplantation, patients need to take a lifelong regimen of immunosuppressors to fight off graft-versus-host disease (GvHD), which is common and often deadly. Now, researchers have been able to completely replace people’s bone-marrow-derived stem cells with those from unrelated donors without causing GvHD. This means that the recipients could also accept [...]

A new study suggests that the stem cells located in human ovaries might be able to produce new eggs. The findings were published in the journal Nature Medicine and could potentially mean an end to IVF procedures. The researchers derived a rigorous way to isolate these cells for the first time, and suggest that they [...]

Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the California Institute of Technology teamed up to image the T6SS system working in real-time to prove their hypothesis that cholera’s T6SS tactic mirrors the system that phage viruses use to inject their genetic material into bacteria for replication. Bacteria live in a state of perpetual warfare, with different [...]

Researchers at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital have demonstrated a new microfluidic device that can isolate target cells much faster than existing devices and may lead to improvements in point-of-care diagnostics and personalized medicine. Separating complex mixtures of cells, such as those found in a blood sample, can offer valuable information for diagnosing and treating [...]

Researchers at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) believe they have found a way to help the brain replace damaged oligodendrocytes and myelin. By using a system of gene therapy they developed, which uses leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), the researchers were able to stimulate production of new oligodendrocytes from stem and progenitor cells. PASADENA, California — [...]

A new study published in the journal The Lancet shares the results from a Cedars-Sinai Heart institute clinical trial, which demonstrated that heart attack patients could be treated with an infusion of their own heart-derived cells that helped re-grow healthy heart muscles. The patients who underwent the stem cell procedure showed a significant reduction in [...]

Researchers at the University of Queensland developed a new method to create mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), which can be used to repair bone and potentially other organs. The technique could lead to future widespread clinical use of MSCs. University of Queensland scientists have developed a world-first method for producing adult stem cells that will substantially [...]

Researchers at the University of Buffalo’s School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences used human neurons to help solve the genetic origins of Parkinson’s disease. Based a previous method in which they used induced pluripotent stem cells, their findings show that mutations disrupt the precise action of dopamine and produce more free radicals leading to Parkinson’s. [...]