New technique could aid treatments for diseases that lead to paralysis Scientists working to develop new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases have been stymied by the inability to grow... Read more
The new cells prevented the onset of diabetes in an animal model of the disease bringing personalized cell therapy for diabetes closer. Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes and the Univers... Read more
A single genetic tweak is all that is needed to turn ordinary skin cells into functioning brain cells The research could help to treat Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other brain diseases. Work... Read more
“This is a solid step forward.” For the first time, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have made early retina structures containing proliferating neuroretinal prog... Read more
No organ in the human body is as resistant to study as the brain. Whereas researchers can examine living cells from the liver, lung and heart, taking a biopsy of the brain is, for many reaso... Read more
Researchers have worked out how to reprogram cells from human skin into functioning nerve cells. By transforming cells from human skin into working nerve cells, researchers may have come up... Read more
To rebuild damaged parts of a human body from scratch is a dream that has long fired human imagination, from Mary Shelley’s Doctor Frankenstein to modern day surgeons. Now, a team of E... Read more