It could take at least five to ten years before clinical trials could start For the first time scientists have succeeded in taking skin cells from heart failure patients and reprogram... Read more
Researchers from the University of Minnesota’s Lillehei Heart Institute have effectively treated muscular dystrophy in mice using human stem cells derived from a new process that... Read more
Stem Cell Researchers Create Lung Surface Tissue in a Dish Harvard stem cell researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have taken a critical step in making possible the discovery i... 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
It is the first time the technique has proved successful in the cat family AUSTRALIAN scientists have produced embryonic stem-like cells from the tissue of an adult snow leopard for t... Read more
Scientists have recently succeeded in rejuvenating cells from elderly donors (aged over 100). These old cells were reprogrammed in vitro to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) and t... Read more
The research team cautions that the work, done only in the laboratory, is years away from clinical use in patients Using a patient’s own stem cells, researchers at Johns Hopkins have c... Read more
New treatments to combat the degeneration of muscle associated with muscular dystrophy or aging Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have turned back the clock on mature mu... Read more
Cells taken from the tips of mouse tails and genetically reprogrammed to mimic mature liver cells can repair damaged livers. The ultimate goal of such studies is to use the same technique to... Read more
In a world first, scientists from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center have created functioning fetal intestinal tissue from pluripotent stem cells. Both human embryonic stem cells... Read more
Image via Wikipedia A new technique that allows blood to be made directly from skin cells has been discovered. The pioneering approach by Canadian researchers uses human skin stem cells to c... Read more
