POSTS TAGGED AS stem cells

A “Culture Mold” for Growing Heart Cells

Lab Made Cardiomyocytes
Inducing early stem cells to become a specific tissue cell type is no easy business, but a research [MORE]

Liver Regeneration

Telomerase
An adult’s liver can fully regenerate its original mass from as little as 25% of its remaining undamaged or diseased [MORE]

World’s First Commercial iPSC Factory

Human iPS Cells Colonies
On March 22, the Sumitomo Dainippon Manufacturing Plant for Regenerative Medicine opened the first commercial factory for [MORE]

Heart Tissue Regeneration Potential

Human Heart
Cardiomyocytes, like brain cells, stop regenerating after a brief window. But inducing them to cell cycle again is a [MORE]

Tissue Regeneration with Vascularization

Meso Endothelial Stem Cells
This piece, based on research at the University of Queensland, doesn’t directly address the prospects for growing [MORE]

Intestine-on-a-Chip

Organs-on-Chips
Microengineers at Cedars Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute (Los Angeles, CA) have created an “intestine-on-a-chip” that simulates a [MORE]

Lower Cost Stem Cell Culturing

Koyoto AKIT Culture
A research collaboration headed at Kyoto University’s Institute for Integrated Cell Material Science has developed a stem cell [MORE]

Pancreatic Stem Cells to Regenerate Insulin Function

Pancreatic Progenitor Cells in Pancreatic Duct
Researchers at the University of Miami’s Diabetes Research Institute have confirmed the location of pancreatic [MORE]

First in vitro Kidney Tissue

Kidney Glomeruli
In a first for regenerative medicine, bioengineers at the University of Manchester have grown functional human kidney tissue organelles [MORE]

Transfusion Medicine—Opportunities?

Blood Transfusion
Many of our readers are opportunity-minded, i.e. innovators looking for something to make better. And, there’s hardly a medical [MORE]

Stem Cell-Based Cartilage Regeneration Now in Phase III Trials

Knee Anatomy
Japan has the highest percentage of people over age 65 of any country which explains why it leads the [MORE]

Mass Producing Livers

Bioengineered Mini Liver Buds
Using a custom designed micro-well cell plate that has a film which nourishes liver stem cells, researchers [MORE]

Stem Cells from Amniotic Fluid

Harvesting Cells from Amniotic Fluid
During a caesarian delivery, amniotic fluid is treated as a waste product, while it’s actually a [MORE]

Mouse Intestines Grown from Stem Cells

Model of Intestine Grown from Stem Cells
Tufts University scientists have created an organ-on-a-chip model of mouse small intestines. Cells in [MORE]