POSTS TAGGED AS stem cells

Stem Cell-Derived Pituitary Gland

This is one of those things that is almost inconceivable until it happens: scientists at Japan’s RIKEN Center for Developmental [MORE]

First Transfusion of Cultured Blood

Despite almost a quarter century of being able to isolate blood progenitor stem cells, it wasn’t until last summer [MORE]

Heart Parts from Stem Cells, Sooner Than You Think

Regenerative medicine took a leap when Doris Taylor, at the Univ. of Minnesota, grew a rat’s stem cells into [MORE]

Personal Stem Cell Banking

Stem cells grow when they attach to a collagen scaffold known as the extracellular matrix (ECM).  Generally, when this [MORE]

Gene Therapy for Stem Cells

In a remarkable clinical experiment, researchers at the UK’s Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge have demonstrated a [MORE]

UK Funding Stem Cell Work for Economic Recovery

Imagine the controversy if an American President publicly avowed funding a major stem cell production facility to stimulate economic recovery.  [MORE]

Programmable, Patient-Specific Bandages

Bioengineering professor Elizabeth Loboa, at North Carolina State University, aims to create wound healing bandages from hollow, [MORE]

Stem cell “Bandage” for Torn Meniscal Cartilage

In most cases of a torn knee cartilage, surgeons remove the meniscus, even thought that can result in early [MORE]

Synthetic Trachea Implanted

Two months ago, a clinical team at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm implanted a synthetic trachea in a 36 [MORE]

A Newer Marker, CD49f, for Hematopoietic Stem Cells

The first hematopoietic stem cell isolator-Baxter’s Isolex machine-targeted CD34+ cells with a mouse monoclonal antibody Johns Hopkins University oncologist [MORE]

ATCC’s Move on iPSC’s

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

Ontario Stem Cell Initiative

With support from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, the Ontario Research Fund, Ontario Innovation Trust, and the Center for [MORE]

Stony Brook’s Biotech Commercialization Fund

Over the past 28 years, Stony Brook University’s Center for Biotechnology has developed more than a dozen commercially available [MORE]

Review of Stem Cell Technology

This piece references an article the excellent science writer Stephen Hall published in Scientific American last March, which gives [MORE]

Bioengineered Voicebox

Several research groups around the world have now removed cells from cadaver organs, reseeded the remaining protein scaffolding with [MORE]

iPSC’s Function as Primary Hepatocytes

Yoon-Young Jang, MD and colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center recently reported that induced pluripotent stem cells, [MORE]

Antidepressives Stimulated Neurogenesis

In neuroscience, the glucocorticoid receptor (GCR) is known to be involved in regulating gene transcription, but how that happens [MORE]

Growing Retinas in vitro

This is exciting news even if you’re not concerned with retinal degeneration-researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (Kobe, [MORE]

Stem Cells from Fat for Heart Repair

There may be one bright light in these obese times: fat contains about 200 times more progenitor cells than [MORE]

Neuron Progenitor Cells Commercially Available

While the debate over human embryonic stem cells remains contentious, Lonza (Walkersville, MD) and California Stem Cell, Inc. (Irvine, [MORE]