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Growing Up Kidney Podocytes

September 18, 2018 | | Posted in Newsletter

Mature kidney podocyte
Winston Churchill’s comment that Russia is “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” might equally apply [MORE]

Serotonin-Releasing Neurons Cultured from Skin Cells

January 12, 2016 | | Posted in Newsletter

Serotonin Releasing Neurons
It would be useful, indeed, to have serotonin-producing cells in tissue culture to test drugs developed to treat [MORE]

Growing Skin into Nerves

December 1, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

Aging Human Brain Cells
So, that’s how it works! Membranes that contain the nucleus of neurons deteriorate from aging and allow [MORE]

Automated Stem Cell Production

November 3, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

DNA Replication
For emphasis, this piece is simply noted: Researchers at the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute have created [MORE]

Reengineering Sickle Cells

May 5, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

Sickle Cell Disease
It is no more than a reversal of an A and T base pair in a point on [MORE]

Hair Raising Stem Cells

March 17, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

Using IPSCs to Grow New Hair
“Mr. Ray,” your hair-weaves are toast! Researchers at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, [MORE]

Making Blood Vessels Younger

December 23, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

Mervin C. Yoder, MD, Indiana University SOM
Aging wears on blood vessels, as over time, endothelial cells lining blood vessels lose [MORE]

Regenerated Thymus

November 18, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

Lab Grown Thymus Gland
The Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh has succeeded in growing a fully functional [MORE]

iPSC’s Produced by Removing One Protein

December 17, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

Dr. Shinya Yamanaka
Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize last year for showing how the insertion of just four genes (by [MORE]

Tentative Steps toward Liver Regeneration

October 8, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

Shinya Yamanaka
Last year, Japanese scientist Shimya Yamanaka shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries about converting [MORE]

Cartilage from Stem Cells

January 1, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

Chondrogenesis
For millions of aging athletes and millions more of arthritis sufferers, an ability to regrow their own shock absorbing [MORE]

Stem Cells for Age-Related Macular Degeneration

September 11, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

Stem Cell Clinical Trials
This piece reports on two groups, in Japan and the United States, that are applying stem [MORE]

ATCC’s Move on iPSC’s

July 19, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

iPS Cells
It’s a fair guess that Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka could win a Nobel Prize this year for [MORE]

A Giant Step for iPSC’s

January 25, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

In a “world’s first” for primates, researchers at Keio University in Tokyo implanted induced pleuripotent stem cells (derived from [MORE]