Technique Prevents Transplant Rejection in the Lab, a Major Advance for Stem Cell Therapies UC San Francisco scientists have used the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system to create the first plur... Read more
Researchers Can Grow Functional Stomach and Intestinal Tissues to Study Diseases, New Drugs Scientists report in Nature using pluripotent stem cells to generate human stomach tissues in a pe... Read more
Scientists used pluripotent stem cells to generate functional, three-dimensional human stomach tissue in a laboratory – creating an unprecedented tool for researching the development and dis... Read more
Researchers have shown for the first time in an animal that is more closely related to humans that it is possible to make new bone from stem-cell-like induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)... Read more
“PLURIPOTENT” is a long word that means “able to do many things”. It is the technical term applied to stem cells that can generate many different sorts of bodily tissue, rather than just one... Read more
The new method boosts cell yields and increases safety, helping to get another step closer to regenerative medicine A new method for generating stem cells from mature cells promises to boost... Read more
A way to take adult stem cells and convert them so they have the properties of embryonic stem cells A team of Duke Medicine researchers has engineered cartilage from induced pluripotent stem... Read more
Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a reliable method to turn the clock back on blood cells, restoring them to a primitive stem cell state from which they can then develop into any other... Read more
Calgary scientists say they have revolutionized stem cell production and have found a way to create the super cells without the risk of cancer. A pair of researchers at the University... Read more
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
These cells hold great long-term medical potential Skipping pluripotency ‘detour,’ Max Planck researcher Prof. Schöler again takes lead in stem cell research Breaking new ground,... 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
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
