by Mark Curtis | Feb 4, 2014
. Welcome to your Update from the Clinic for the month of January! We start the year off with the German health authority approving Pluristem’s next generation GMP cell manufacturing facility. Neuralstem successfully, and safely, transplants NSI-556 cells directly...
by Lisa Willemse | Jan 31, 2014
> By now, most readers will be familiar with this week’s announcement of a remarkable new discovery that mouse cells were made pluripotent using a relatively simple and quick acid bath technique. For those who aren’t, there’s reams of coverage,...
by Stacey Johnson | Jan 24, 2014
. My colleague, Casandra Gardner, PhD, was excited when she came across the image, below, of a plastic cell. Since my understanding of polymers is limited to what my university chem-eng boyfriend taught me many (many!) years ago, I thought Casey would do a much better...
by Lisa Willemse | Jan 17, 2014
> If you’ve ever wondered what makes a stem cell hasten its way down the mutational road to cancer, wonder no more. The answer is revenge – a kind of adolescent rebellion against parental (the body’s) and evoloutionary control. At least...
by Paul Krzyzanowski | Jan 9, 2014
> If your morning cup of coffee wasn’t enough to wake you up today, researchers from the New York Stem Cell Foundation and Columbia University just reported being able to generate iPS cells from human brain tissue that’s been frozen for 11 years:...
by Holly Wobma | Jan 6, 2014
> You need only look at an old air conditioner filter to gain an enormous appreciation for our kidneys. Every day, our kidneys filter just under 200L of fluid, filled with all kinds of gnarly toxins that we’d rather not know about. Most of the time, they operate...
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