POSTS TAGGED AS induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Human Brain Organoids with Optic Vesicles.

Human brain organoids assemble optical vesicles
“Using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived human brain organoids, we [researchers at Heinrich-Heine University, Dūsseldorf] [MORE]

114 Year Old Stem Cells

Centenarian
Why do people over 100 years old age so slowly?  This was the question  of interventional gerontologists at the Sanford [MORE]

AstraZeneca’s “Heart in a Jar” Project

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]

Opportunities for Cell-Based Treatment of Arthritis and Osteoporosis

Cervical spine arthritis
This long article from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research raises a caution about cell based [MORE]

First Corneal Transplant from iPSCs

Corneal transplant
“A woman in Japan with a corneal disease has become the first person in the world to receive a [MORE]

iPSCs in 3-D Culture

Combining 3D culture with iPSCs
This piece, citing research at Corning Life Sciences (Tewksbury, MA), describes two laboratory technologies—induced pluripotent stem [MORE]

Stem Cells to T-cells from Artificial Thymic Organoids

T helper cell
Growing tissue organoids seems to be the coming thing for drug testing, but additionally, researchers at UCLA have [MORE]

Growing Mesenchymal Progenitors without Animal Derived Compounds

Mesenchymal progenitors
Human mesenchymal stem cells are rare and difficult to expand in culture, but they have the greatest capability of [MORE]

13 Years of iPSC Therapies in Clinical Trials

iPS cell therapies for clinical trials
Thirteen years have passed since Kyoto University’s Shinya Yamanaka demonstrated how altering four genes could [MORE]

iPSC Transplanted into Parkinson’s Patient

Neurons
Last October, Japanese neuroscientists implanted induced pluripotent stem cells into a Parkinson’s patient.  As described: “Kyoto University stem cell researcher [MORE]

First Fully Personalized Tissue Implants

Prof. Tal Dvir engineers personalized cells for implants
This piece asserts that researchers at Tel Aviv University have shown how it [MORE]

CRISPR-Based Test for Cardiomyopathy

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Most attention to CRISPR-Cas 9 has focused on editing out disease related genes, but this report tells of University [MORE]

Perspective on Clinical Stem Cell Therapy

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

Speeding up stem cell growth
Before stem cell therapies can become more robust, cell culture has to be finely tuned so [MORE]