by Holly Wobma | Oct 9, 2013
> For anyone following the celebrity gossip of the stem cell field, you’ve probably come across one of our rising stars, the induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC). Award winning and deemed to have loads of potential, each one of us can produce this type of cell. The...
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 Chris Kamel | Jun 11, 2010
When using stem cells for regenerative therapies, there are a few approaches that can be taken. Donor cells have issues with matching and immune rejection. Autologous stem cells transplants skirt rejection issues, but both strategies still face challenges associated...
by Chris Kamel | Apr 29, 2010
In Britain, a young boy is currently recovering from a remarkable surgery to replace his windpipe. Tissue transplantation itself is hardly a routine thing, but there are a couple of things that make this case, reported in the British Medical Journal, particularly...
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