by Stem Cell Network | Nov 27, 2009
For infants born prematurely, lung and brain illnesses can have severe and long-term health effects. According to the US National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, about one in three infants born with birth weights below two pounds will be diagnosed with...
by Stem Cell Network | Oct 14, 2009
During a heart attack, muscle cells that make up the heart’s tissue are lost permanently. This cell loss is one of the leading causes of heart failure. Although cell transplantation can result in modest improvements in cardiac function, several challenges remain,...
by Stem Cell Network | Aug 7, 2009
Mast cells are cells of the immune system that play a role in inflammatory responses, such as allergies and asthma. They share a number of surface markers (“identifier” molecules on a cell that help scientists distinguish between different types of cells)...
by Stem Cell Network | Jul 31, 2009
In a Molecular Systems Biology paper released this week, our team at the University of Toronto revealed a new mathematical model that links functional cellular assays to specific model outputs, defines cell-level kinetic parameters such as cell cycle rates and...
by Michael Rudnicki | Jun 5, 2009
In a Cell Stem Cell paper released today, my team at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute demonstrated how the Wnt7a protein, signaling through the planar cell polarity pathway, controls the homeostatic levels of stem cells in muscle tissue, generating close to a...
by Stem Cell Network | May 7, 2009
Starting today, SCN is launching the Impact ResearchProgram, a new initiative to fund stem cell research projects that pursuequestions with high potential for impact in the areas of clinical translation,commercialization or public policy. Selection of the grants is...
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