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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]

Problems in Stem Cell Genetics

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and the Scripps Research Institute recently made a disturbing discovery [MORE]

Genetic Cures Before Birth

Hematopoietic stem cell transplants in utero have potential for “curing” genetic diseases before birth.  In 1995, Drs. Alan Flake [MORE]

A Giant Step for iPSC’s

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

Biological Sutures

Observing that human bone marrow stem cells can survive on polymer threads and then begin to differentiate when sewn [MORE]

Using Stem Cells to Test Autism Drugs

Researchers at the University of California-San Diego, and the Salk Institute, have taken skin cells from Rett syndrome mice, [MORE]

Stem Cells for Heart Repair, World’s First

In experimental animals, a team of nanotechnology engineers and heart surgeons in Taiwan have used hematopoietic stem cells and [MORE]

Making Organs with Building Blocks

MIT researchers have developed a technique for building up tissue using hydrogel-encapsulated embryonic stem cells.  They place ESC’s in [MORE]

Stem Cell-Enriched Autologous Fat Treatments

Breast augmentation, for either reconstruction after surgery or for elective cosmetic purposes, may not be at the top of [MORE]

Improving the Chances with in vitro Fertilization

By taking time-lapse pictures in dark-field microscopy, a team from Stanford University’s Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative [MORE]

mRNA-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

In 2006, Shinya Yamanaka, at UCSF, showed that only four proteins were required to reprogram fully developed somatic cells [MORE]

Fibronectin Material for Growing New Tissue

In experiments with rats, researchers at the University of Minnesota and Yale University have been able to strip away [MORE]

New Material for Growing Stem Cells

Most labs that grow stem cells rely on traditional plastic Petri dishes that have a gelatin coated surface for [MORE]

Blood as a Source of iPSCs

Most of the R&D work on induced pluripotent stem cells has been done with skin tissue, but recently, investigators at [MORE]

Growing Heart Tissue in China

Because drugs can only slow the pace of heart failure and also because transplantable hearts are in short supply, [MORE]

Tissue Engineering for Hearing

Hearing loss will be a rising medical concern as “baby boomers” move into retirement.  Loud music over the years [MORE]

New Materials: Injectable Bone

A research group at the University of Nottingham has developed a new class of materials containing living stem [MORE]