By ALEXANDRA WOLFE, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, February 05, 2016. Susan L. Solomon, co-founder of the New York Stem Cell Foundation left a career in law and business for science. Her goal: A cure for diabetes. One day last week, at a lab in New York City, a heart cell was beating in a petri…
BY CHRIS WOOD, GIZMAG MEDICAL, FEBRUARY 05, 2016. Scientists have used stem cells for everything from regrowing corneas to inducing the heart to repair itself, and it might even be possible to use them to heal damaged lungs. Now, researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center have, for the first time, successfully identified a…
By Alice Park, TIME, HEALTH MEDICINE, February 05, 2016. Researchers have zeroed in on one the driving forces behind hair loss, and it’s closely related to aging. Anyone who starts losing their hair is familiar with the phenomenon: you used to have an enviously full head of hair in your teens, but the older you…
BBC. February 01, 2016 A US company is using a combination of computer aided design, 3D fabrication and stem cells to create bone replacements. EpiBone uses a CT scan of the area needing a bone replacement and produces a scaffold from an animal bone which has been stripped of all its cellular material. Stem cells…