A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of California (UC) San Diego has discovered a new type of dynamic change in human stem cells. Last year, this team reported recurrent changes in the genomes of human pluripot…
Embryonic stem cells – those revered cells that give rise to every cell type in the body – just got another badge of honor. If they suffer damage that makes them a threat to the developing embryo, they swiftly fall on their swords for the greater good,…
Researchers reporting in the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, have devised a new and improved method for producing genetically modified animals for use in scientific research. The method relies on haploid embryonic stem cells (haESCs) instead of…
The University of Michigan’s second human embryonic stem cell line has just been placed on the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s registry, making the cells available for federally-funded research. It is the second of the stem cell lines derived at U…
Researchers from the Orlando Health Heart Institute are exploring how to restore tissue and improve heart function after muscle damage from heart attacks with stem cells from pelvic bone marrow, as it may improve the heartbeat. The ORMC’s leading resea…
For the first time, US scientists have shown that HIV-fighting cells engineered from human stem cells can suppress the virus in living human tissue in mice. The team, from UCLA in Los Angeles, California, had already shown in principle that it was po…
In spite of considerable research efforts around the world, we still do not know the determining factors that confer stem cells their main particular features: capacity to self-renew and to divide and proliferate. The scientist Jordi Casanova, head of…
The brave new world of stem cell research dangles the exciting potential for a host of leading-edge treatments that may one day help cure debilitating diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, maladies that today cannot be treated with modern medic…
Post-doctoral researcher David Fluri and Professor Peter Zandstra at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) have developed a unique new technique for growing stem cells that may make possible cost-effec…
A study published online in Environmental Health Perspectives reports that researchers from the National Institutes of Health have discovered how normal stem cells can turn into cancer stem cells and spur tumor growth through exposure to arsenic. Evid…
