Human brain organoids assemble optical vesicles
“Using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived human brain organoids, we [researchers at Heinrich-Heine University, Dūsseldorf] [MORE]
Centenarian
Why do people over 100 years old age so slowly? This was the question of interventional gerontologists at the Sanford [MORE]
Human heart-in-a-jar
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction is a condition where the heart still pumps but is too weak to [MORE]
Cervical spine arthritis
This long article from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research raises a caution about cell based [MORE]
Corneal transplant
“A woman in Japan with a corneal disease has become the first person in the world to receive a [MORE]
Combining 3D culture with iPSCs
This piece, citing research at Corning Life Sciences (Tewksbury, MA), describes two laboratory technologies—induced pluripotent stem [MORE]
T helper cell
Growing tissue organoids seems to be the coming thing for drug testing, but additionally, researchers at UCLA have [MORE]
Mesenchymal progenitors
Human mesenchymal stem cells are rare and difficult to expand in culture, but they have the greatest capability of [MORE]
iPS cell therapies for clinical trials
Thirteen years have passed since Kyoto University’s Shinya Yamanaka demonstrated how altering four genes could [MORE]
Neurons
Last October, Japanese neuroscientists implanted induced pluripotent stem cells into a Parkinson’s patient. As described: “Kyoto University stem cell researcher [MORE]
Prof. Tal Dvir engineers personalized cells for implants
This piece asserts that researchers at Tel Aviv University have shown how it [MORE]
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Most attention to CRISPR-Cas 9 has focused on editing out disease related genes, but this report tells of University [MORE]
Human embryonic stem cell
In the 20 years since the University of Wisconsin’s James Thomson isolated the first embryonic stem cells, [MORE]
Speeding up stem cell growth
Before stem cell therapies can become more robust, cell culture has to be finely tuned so [MORE]