by Lyla El-Fayomi | Apr 30, 2021
“Regenerative medicine news under the microscope” is a new monthly feature highlighting big stories in stem cell research. I will sample the latest and greatest findings in recent press and package them into a single post. This month, I am featuring more COVID-19...
by Jovana Drinjakovic | Apr 25, 2018
Miniature human brains continue to develop when hooked up to a blood supply in the mouse brain in a finding that opens up new avenues for learning how the brain forms and falls ill, while at the same time raising ethical questions. Last week, two teams reported...
by Holly Wobma | Jul 11, 2012
My guess…is an HSC (hematopoietic stem cell). Because although these cells aren’t known for their civil disobedience, they do have a certain knack for making people more tolerant. In fact, that’s why Dr. Megan Sykes, Director of the Columbia Center for Translational...
by Angela C. H. McDonald | Jun 26, 2012
Hiromitsu Nakauchi has a vision for regenerative medicine. In this vision, he sees a renewable source of human organs for transplantation that are grown within the bodies of farm animals. Here’s how it works: pluripotent stem cells would be injected into an early...
by David Kent | Jan 6, 2012
Yesterday, a landmark paper emerged from Cell which reported two major findings to the scientific community: Primate embryonic stem cells cannot generate chimeras, and Aggregation and injection of multiple early-stage four-cell primate embryos (not embryonic stem...
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