BBC, Oct 3, 2016. The 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan for discoveries about the secrets of how cells can remain healthy by recycling waste. He located genes that regulate the cellular “self eating” process known as autophagy. Dr Ohsumi’s work is important because it helps explain what…
WBHM – Press release, Sep 23, 2016. Researchers at UAB have found a new way to create stem cells, one they hope will lead to more efficient and personalized medical treatments. The findings were published Tuesday in Cell Reports. “In humans, we have more than 200 types of cells,” says Kejin Hu, lead researcher and…
Medical Science News, September 21, 2016. Lund University stem cell researcher awarded Fernström prize for study on repairing damaged brain. Is it possible to convert a patient’s own skin cells into functioning nerve cells? Or insert healthy genes to reprogram the cells of a damaged brain? Stem cell researcher Malin Parmar at Lund University in…
Fox News, September 12, 2016. When Kris Boesen’s car fishtailed on a wet road, hitting a tree and slamming into a telephone poll, the 21-year-old never thought he would walk again. But results from an early-stage clinical trial using stem cells to restore movement have given the 21-year-old promise that his spinal cord injury may…
Written by Honor Whiteman, Medical News Today, September 8, 2016. A 21-year-old man left paralyzed after a spinal cord injury has regained the use of his arms and hands, thanks to an experimental stem cell treatment performed by researchers from the Keck Medical Center at the University of Southern California. In March of this year,…
Medical Xpress, Aug 30, 2016. A research team led by investigators at The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has generated functional human and mouse tissue-engineered liver from adult stem and progenitor cells. Tissue-engineered Liver (TELi) was found to contain normal structural components such as hepatocytes, bile ducts and blood vessels. The study…
By DAVID PRENTICE. Research Director, Charlotte Lozier Institute, Daily Caller-Aug 22, 2016. Stem cell therapies and their lifesaving results are arguably the best kept medical secret. Stem cells are currently being used in several thousand FDA-approved clinical trials, are treating tens of thousands of patients every year, and cumulatively over 1.5 million people have been…
By Kerry Kolasa-Sikiaridi. Greek Reporter, Aug 20, 2016. Researchers working with stem cells at Stanford University look to create heart cells from stem cells. The project, led by cardiovascular medicine instructor and Greek native, Dr. Elena Matsa, PhD, along with Joseph C. Wu, the Director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and a professor in the…
By Tanushri Sundar, The Stanford Daily, Aug 12, 2016. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered the combinations of biological and chemical signals needed to rapidly generate human cell types from human embryonic stem cells, according to Stanford Medicine News. Pure populations of up to 12 cell types can now be created…
EurekAlert (press release), Aug 4, 2016. Replacing and repairing human tissue is becoming feasible largely due to advances in the use of stem cells. Unfortunately, obstacles still stand in the way of engineering these malleable cells to self-renew or expand. One of those obstacles is an incomplete picture of how cells interact with their environment….