stem cells

Lab-Grown 3-D Intestine Regenerates Gut Lining in Dogs

Findings can lead to gut replacement therapy in people with intestinal deficiencies Working with gut

Restoring vision with stem cells

Age-related macular degeneration (AMRD) could be treated by transplanting photoreceptors produced by the directed differentiation

Lab-grown kidneys work in animals

Scientists say they are a step closer to growing fully functioning replacement kidneys, after promising

UI Health validates cure for sickle cell in adults

Physicians at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System have cured 12 adult patients

New material forges the way for ‘stem cell factories’

If you experience a major heart attack the damage could cost you around five billion

Stem Cells Might Heal Damaged Lungs

Collectively, such diseases of the airways as emphysema, bronchitis, asthma and cystic fibrosis are the

Research Team Uses Stem Cell Exosomes to Induce Damaged Mouse Hearts to Repair Themselves Without Stem Cell Risk

A little more than a decade ago, researchers discovered that all cells secrete tiny communications

A patient’s budding cortex — in a dish?

Networking neurons thrive in 3-D human “organoid” A patient tormented by suicidal thoughts gives his

Hydrogels boost ability of stem cells to restore eyesight and heal brains

University of Toronto researchers show that engineered ‘hydrogels’ not only help with stem cell transplantation,

Stem Cell Injection May Soon Reverse Vision Loss Caused By Age-Related Macular Degeneration

An injection of stem cells into the eye may soon slow or reverse the effects

Scientists generate first human stomach tissue in lab with stem cells

Scientists used pluripotent stem cells to generate functional, three-dimensional human stomach tissue in a laboratory

Growing a Blood Vessel in a Week

The technology for creating new tissues from stem cells has taken a giant leap forward.

Photo by L. Brian Stauffer University of Illinois kinesiology and community health professor Marni Boppart studies the mechanisms that enable muscles to recover and grow stronger after exercise.
Stem cells aid muscle repair and strengthening after resistance exercise

A new study in mice reveals that mesenchymal (mezz-EN-chem-uhl) stem cells (MSCs) help rejuvenate skeletal

Growth pattern. Forty-two hours after they began to differentiate, embryonic cells are clearly segregating into endoderm (red), mesoderm (blue) and ectoderm (black). Researchers say the key to achieving this patterning in culture is confining the colonies geometrically.
Using geometry, researchers coax human embryonic stem cells to organize themselves

“It brings us closer to the possibility of replacement organs grown in petri dishes and

A restored functional cornea following transplantation of human ABCB5-positive limbal stem cells to limbal stem cell-deficient mice. Transplants consisting of human ABCB5-positive limbal stem cells resulted in restoration and long-term maintenance of a normal clear cornea, whereas control mice that received either no cells or ABCB5-negative cells failed to restore the cornea. Image credit: Kira Lathrop, Bruce Ksander, Markus Frank, Natasha Frank and Paraskevi Kolovou.
Researchers Regrow Human Corneas: First Known Tissue Grown from a Human Stem Cell

Limbal stem cells — identified with a new marker — could reverse a leading cause