Researchers Identify a Vital Protein for Brain Development
Researchers from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have identified a vital protein that can help determine embryonic development. A protein that is necessary for the…
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Possible Signs of Progress in the Fight Against Parkinson’s
By using induced pluripotent stem cells, researchers have markedly reduced the symptoms Parkinson’s disease in primates. Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at University-affiliated McLean…
A Pill to Shed Fat? Researchers Turn White Fat Cells Into Brown Fat Cells
Scientists from Harvard have created a system using human stem cells to screen for compounds that have the potential to turn white fat cells into…
Research Reveals New Strategy to Control Cellular Identity and Fate
Newly published research suggests a new strategy to control cellular identity and fate, revealing that depleting or knocking out a chemical tag on RNA keeps…
New Gene-Editing Technique Could Prove to be an Effective Technique for Blocking HIV
Using CRISPR Cas technology, researchers genetically ‘edit’ human blood stem cells to create what could prove to be an effective technique for blocking HIV. Harvard…
UCLA Scientists Propose a Benchmark for Better Stem Cell Replication
New research from UCLA establishes a standard to assess how conditions used to procure stem cells in the lab compare to those found in a…
Scientists Discover Protein That Can Accelerate Recovery
New research from UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center reveals how a unique protein found in human bone marrow can drive stem cells to repair our…
Researchers Reset Human Pluripotent Stem Cells to a Fully Pristine State
A newly published study details how scientists were able to successfully ‘reset’ human pluripotent stem cells to a fully pristine state. Researchers at EMBL-EBI have…
New Stem Cell Research Identifies Barriers to Human iPSC Generation
UC San Francisco scientists detail new research that might lead to a more streamlined process for obtaining stem cells, which in turn could be used…
New Way to Regrow Human Corneas Could Help Overcome a Major Cause of Blindness
Harvard-affiliated researchers have discovered a new way to regrow human corneas that could help researchers overcome a major cause of blindness. Researchers have identified a…
Scientists Coax Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Organize
Using geometry, scientists from the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology at Rockefeller University have coaxed human embryonic stem cells to organize themselves….
Researchers Use Stem Cells from Teeth to Grow Brain-Like Cells
New research from the University of Adelaide shows that stem cells from teeth can develop and form complex networks of brain-like cells. University of Adelaide…
Researchers Identify Major Obstacle to Converting Cells Back to Their Youthful State
Researchers from Yale University have identified a major obstacle to converting cells back to their youthful state — the speed of the cell cycle, or…
Researchers Convert Human Stem Cells to Functional Lung Cells
In a newly published study, researchers from the Columbia University Medical Center detail how they successfully converted human stem cells into functional lung and airway…
Researchers Generate Kidney Structures from Human Stem Cells
Researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have generated three-dimensional kidney structures from human stem cells, opening new avenues for the future application of…
Scientists Demonstrate Efficient Method for Converting Fat Cells to Liver Cells
Using adipose stem cells from human liposuction aspirates, scientists have developed a fast, efficient way to turn cells extracted from routine liposuction into liver cells….
Scientists Grow Human Brain Tissue in a 3D Culture System
By using a new method, which modified an established approach to generate so-called neuroectoderm, scientists were able to grow human brain tissue in a three-dimensional…
Researchers Transform Human Scar-Tissue into Heart-Muscle Cells
A newly published study from scientists at the Gladstone Institutes details how researchers transformed the class of cells that form human scar tissue into those…