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Released: 10-May-2016 11:55 AM EDT
Stem Cells From Diabetic Patients Coaxed to Become Insulin-Secreting Cells
Washington University in St. Louis

Signaling a potential new approach to treating diabetes, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Harvard University have produced insulin-secreting cells from stem cells derived from patients with type 1 diabetes. The new discovery suggests a personalized treatment approach to diabetes may be on the horizon — one that relies on the patients’ own stem cells to manufacture new cells that make insulin.

10-May-2016 9:00 AM EDT
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28-Apr-2016 11:00 AM EDT
First Skin-to-Eye Stem Cell Transplant in Humans Successful
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

Researchers have safely transplanted stem cells derived from a patient’s skin to the back of the eye in an effort to restore vision. The research is being presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) this week in Seattle, Wash.

1-May-2016 11:05 AM EDT
Intraventricular Transplantation of Autologous Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cell in Hemorrhagic Stroke
American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)

This research investigates the role of intraventricular transplantation using bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell in stroke patients.

Released: 29-Apr-2016 2:05 PM EDT
Scientists Turn Back the Clock on Blood Cells, Reprogram Them Into Blood Stem Cells in Mice
Boston Children's Hospital

Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital have reprogrammed mature blood cells from mice into blood-forming hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), using a cocktail of eight genetic switches called transcription factors. The reprogrammed cells, which the researchers have dubbed induced HSCs (iHSCs), have the functional hallmarks of HSCs, are able to self-renew like HSCs, and can give rise to all of the cellular components of the blood like HSCs.

Released: 28-Apr-2016 3:05 PM EDT
Sanford Health Selected for Global Cell-Therapy Event at Vatican
Sanford Health

Organization recognized for innovative research, care

25-Apr-2016 9:05 AM EDT
Stem Cell Study Finds Mechanism That Controls Skin and Hair Color
NYU Langone Health

A pair of molecular signals controls skin and hair color in mice and humans — and could be targeted by new drugs to treat skin pigment disorders like vitiligo, according to a report by scientists at NYU Langone Medical Center.

26-Apr-2016 9:05 AM EDT
Cell Transplant Treats Parkinson's in Mice Under Control of Designer Drug
University of Wisconsin–Madison

A University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist has inserted a genetic switch into nerve cells so a patient can alter their activity by taking designer drugs that would not affect any other cell. The cells in question are neurons and make the neurotransmitter dopamine, whose deficiency is the culprit in the widespread movement disorder Parkinson's disease.

Released: 28-Apr-2016 11:00 AM EDT
Media Invitation: Press Conference by Webcast
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

This ARVO Meeting showcases cutting-edge eye and vision science and an early glimpse into the latest advances in potential treatments for eye disease and blindness — often years ahead of their introduction to the clinic.

Released: 27-Apr-2016 1:05 PM EDT
Pinellas County a Model for Mosquito-Borne Disease Surveillance, Scientists Unravel the Genetic Evolution of Zika Virus, Worm Infection Counters Inflammatory Bowel Disease and more in the Infectious Diseases News Source
Newswise

Pinellas County a Model for Mosquito-Borne Disease Surveillance, Scientists Unravel the Genetic Evolution of Zika Virus, Worm Infection Counters Inflammatory Bowel Disease and more in the Infectious Diseases News Source

25-Apr-2016 3:00 PM EDT
McMaster Scientists Uncover New Way to Grow Rare Life-Saving Blood Stem Cells
McMaster University

Discovery provides a serious advantage in determining how to maximize blood stem cells in therapeutics and could help ease current stem cell shortages.

Released: 21-Apr-2016 9:05 AM EDT
Confused Cells Lead to Genetic Disorders Like Heart Problems, Premature Aging
Binghamton University, State University of New York

It has been disorienting to the scientific and medical community as to why different subtle changes in a protein-coding gene causes many different genetic disorders in different patients -- including premature aging, nerve problems, heart problems and muscle problems. no other gene works like this. According to a new study, co-authored by Binghamton University faculty Eric Hoffman, it has to do with cell “commitment.”

Released: 21-Apr-2016 6:00 AM EDT
NYU Langone's Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Launch Global Research Initiative
NYU Langone Health

Drug-carrying “nanoghosts” that battle melanoma and new treatments for malignant mesothelioma will be the focus of the first joint research projects led by NYU Langone Medical Center and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology under a groundbreaking research initiative.

Released: 20-Apr-2016 3:05 PM EDT
Scientist Models Developmental Disorder in Adult Stem Cells
Sanford Health

Dr. Kevin Francis’ research appears in Nature Medicine

Released: 18-Apr-2016 3:05 PM EDT
Fashion Design Meets U-M Research in Wearable Human Stem Cell Images
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

A noted designer of artistic ties has turned scientific images into a striking design that can be worn by men and women - and the proceeds will aid bipolar disorder research.

15-Apr-2016 2:45 PM EDT
Preliminary Study: Antibody Therapy Reduces Cancer Stem Cells in Multiple Myeloma
Johns Hopkins Medicine

An experimental antibody treatment decreased by half the number of cancer stem cells that drive the growth of tumors in nearly all patients with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow and bone tissue, according to results of a preliminary clinical trial led by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists.

Released: 7-Apr-2016 12:05 PM EDT
UCI Study Finds Safer Stem Cell-Derived Therapy for Brain Radiation Recovery
University of California, Irvine

While stem cells have shown promise for treating brain regions damaged by cancer radiation treatments, University of California, Irvine researchers have found that microscopic vesicles isolated from these cells provide similar benefits without some of the risks associated with stem cells.

Released: 4-Apr-2016 6:05 PM EDT
Heart Failure Patients Experience Improved Outcomes Following Investigational Stem Cell Treatment
Cedars-Sinai

An investigational stem cell therapy derived from patients’ own blood marrow significantly improved outcomes in patients with severe heart failure, according to a study from the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute.

31-Mar-2016 3:05 PM EDT
Cell Therapy May Mend Damaged Hearts, Study Says
University of Utah Health

End-stage heart failure patients treated with stem cells harvested from their own bone marrow experienced 37 percent fewer cardiac events - including deaths and heart failure hospital admissions - than a placebo-controlled group, according to a new study. Results from ixCELL-DCM, the largest cell therapy clinical trial for treating heart failure to date, will be presented at the 2016 American College of Cardiology annual meeting and published online in The Lancet on April 4.

Released: 28-Mar-2016 3:05 PM EDT
New Study Finds that Despite More Women in Science, We Still Perceive Women to be Incompatible with STEM Fields
Wellesley College

Linda Carli's "Stereotypes About Gender and Science: Women ≠ Science” shows that despite significant progress made, women are still thought to lack the qualities needed to be successful scientists, and the findings suggest this may contribute to discrimination and prejudice against women in those fields.

23-Mar-2016 11:05 AM EDT
Stem Cells Used to Successfully Regenerate Damage in Corticospinal Injury
UC San Diego Health

Writing in Nature Medicine, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, with colleagues in Japan and Wisconsin, report that they have successfully directed stem cell-derived neurons to regenerate lost tissue in damaged corticospinal tracts of rats, resulting in functional benefit.

Released: 28-Mar-2016 9:35 AM EDT
How Cancer Stem Cells Thrive When Oxygen Is Scarce
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Working with human breast cancer cells and mice, scientists say new experiments explain how certain cancer stem cells thrive in low oxygen conditions. Proliferation of such cells, which tend to resist chemotherapy and help tumors spread, are considered a major roadblock to successful cancer treatment.

Released: 25-Mar-2016 11:05 AM EDT
NAU STEM Teaching Practices Shape Classrooms in India
Northern Arizona University

Dr. Pradeep "Max" Dass, director of the NAU Center of Science Teaching and Learning at NAU, is helping guide STEM teaching methods on the other side of the globe in a small school in India. The CSTL continues its mission to lead the way in global STEM education.

Released: 24-Mar-2016 2:05 PM EDT
Unraveling the Mystery of Stem Cells
University of California, Santa Barbara

Neuroscientists document some of the first steps in the process by which a stem cell transforms into different cell types.

   
Released: 23-Mar-2016 10:05 AM EDT
Renowned Scientist Will Lead Rare Mission to Address the Epidemic of Heart Failure
University Health Network (UHN)

Dr. Mansoor Husain named first executive director of Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research

Released: 22-Mar-2016 6:05 PM EDT
Fun and Inspiration for 575 Young Women at PPPL’s Young Women’s Conference
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory hosted a Young Women's Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics for 575 girls. The conference is aimed at sparking young women's interest in STEM and encouraging them to consider STEM careers. Women still lag behind men in STEM careers, especially in certain fields such as computer science, physics, and engineering.

Released: 21-Mar-2016 11:05 AM EDT
Sisters in Science
Ames National Laboratory

Emma and Molly White and Ru-Shyan and Ru-Huey Yen, a pair of twin sisters and close friends who met in high school 16 years ago, went on to careers in STEM

Released: 21-Mar-2016 8:05 AM EDT
Researchers Track Neural Stem Cells by Coloring Chicken Eggs From the Inside
University of Georgia

An overwhelming number of researchers still struggle within the black hole of the effectiveness and safety of stem cell therapy for neurological diseases. While the complexity of understanding how neurons grow, connect and function has long been studied, it remains a mystery, one that Forrest Goodfellow is helping to unravel.

Released: 17-Mar-2016 4:05 PM EDT
CIRM Grant to Fund Proposed Stem Cell Trials for ALS
UC San Diego Health

The Independent Citizens Oversight Committee of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine approved yesterday a $6.3 million grant to a research team from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and University of California, Davis to pursue a novel human embryonic stem cell-based therapy to rescue and restore neurons devastated by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS.

Released: 17-Mar-2016 1:05 PM EDT
Stem Cell Therapy Reverses Age-Related Osteoporosis in Mice
University of Toronto

Imagine telling a patient suffering from age-related (type-II) osteoporosis that a single injection of stem cells could restore their normal bone structure. This week, with a publication in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine, a group of researchers from the University of Toronto and The Ottawa Hospital suggest that this scenario may not be too far away.

15-Mar-2016 4:00 PM EDT
Drug Makes Stem Cells Become ‘Embryonic’ Again
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

If you want to harness the full power of stem cells, all you might need is an eraser – in the form of a drug that can erase the tiny labels that tell cells where to start reading their DNA. In a surprising new finding, scientists have shown that mouse stem cells treated with the drug reverted to an ‘embryonic’ state.

Released: 17-Mar-2016 11:05 AM EDT
Single Brain Cells Reveal Genes Controlling Formation, Development
University of Wisconsin–Madison

In one of the first studies to "read" the genetic activity inside individual brain cells, University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist Xinyu Zhao has identified the genetic machinery that causes maturation in a young nerve cell.

Released: 17-Mar-2016 9:05 AM EDT
Stem Cells Possible Future Treatment for Glaucoma, Say Wills Eye Researchers
Glaucoma Research Foundation

Stem cells may have the potential to protect the optic nerve from further damage and slow the progression of vision loss due to glaucoma. Stem cells may also have the potential to replace ocular tissues that have degenerated in eyes with glaucoma.

Released: 17-Mar-2016 9:00 AM EDT
VCU Scientists Develop Computer Models Simulating Stem Cell Transplant Recovery
VCU Massey Cancer Center

Scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University have developed computer models that can simulate the recovery of the immune system in patients undergoing stem cell transplants.

14-Mar-2016 2:05 PM EDT
Scientists Generate a New Type of Human Stem Cell That Has Half a Genome
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Scientists from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and The New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute (NYSCF) have succeeded in generating a new type of embryonic stem cell that carries a single copy of the human genome, instead of the two copies typically found in normal stem cells. The scientists reported their findings today in the journal Nature.

   
4-Mar-2016 2:05 PM EST
Stem Cells Regenerate Human Lens After Cataract Surgery, Restoring Vision
UC San Diego Health

Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Shiley Eye Institute, with colleagues in China, have developed a new, regenerative medicine approach to remove congenital cataracts in infants, permitting remaining stem cells to regrow functional lenses.

Released: 8-Mar-2016 2:05 PM EST
New Therapy Could Treat Poor Blood Circulation Caused by Peripheral Artery Disease
University of California San Diego

Bioengineers and physicians at the University of California, San Diego have developed a potential new therapy for critical limb ischemia, a condition that causes extremely poor circulation in the limbs and leads to an estimated 230,000 amputations every year in North America and Europe alone to prevent the spread of infection and tissue death. The new therapy could prevent or limit amputations for a condition that affects more than 27 million people and is a manifestation of advanced peripheral arterial disease.

Released: 8-Mar-2016 1:05 PM EST
American Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Austin, May 11-14
American Pain Society

The American Pain Society (APS), www.americanpainsociety.org, will host its 35th annual scientific meeting May 11-14 at the Austin Convention Center. APS is the leading multidisciplinary professional society in the United States dedicated to advancing pain-related research, education, treatment and team-oriented professional practice.

Released: 8-Mar-2016 12:05 PM EST
Mount Sinai Researchers Report Insights Into Blood Stem Cells From Engineered Stem Cells
Mount Sinai Health System

Building upon previous work, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a precursor cell in the placenta and embryo of mice that can be matured in the lab to make hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells

3-Mar-2016 3:05 PM EST
Novel Reprogramming Factor Yields More Efficient Induction of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Kejin Hu, Ph.D., has found a robust reprogramming factor that increases the efficiency of creating human induced pluripotent stem cells (HiPSCs) from skin fibroblasts more than 20-fold, speeds the reprogramming time by several days and enhances the quality of reprogramming.

29-Feb-2016 11:00 AM EST
Florida State University Researchers Make Zika Virus Breakthrough
Florida State University

Florida State University researchers have made a major breakthrough in the quest to learn whether the Zika virus is linked to birth defects with the discovery that the virus is directly targeting brain development cells and stunting their growth. This is the first major finding by scientists that shows that these critical cells are a target of the virus and also negatively affected by it.

   
1-Mar-2016 3:05 PM EST
‘Broken’ Heart Breakthrough: Researchers Reprogram Cells to Better Battle Heart Failure
University of North Carolina Health Care System

Patients with heart failure often have a buildup of scar tissue that leads to a gradual loss of heart function. In a new study, UNC researchers report significant progress toward a novel approach that could shrink the amount of heart scar tissue while replenishing the supply of healthy heart muscle.

   
Released: 19-Feb-2016 8:05 AM EST
TSRI and JCVI Scientists Find Popular Stem Cell Techniques Safe
Scripps Research Institute

A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) shows that the act of creating pluripotent stem cells for clinical use is unlikely to pass on cancer-causing mutations to patients.

17-Feb-2016 12:00 PM EST
Teaching Stem Cells to Build Muscle
Sanford Burnham Prebys

SBP researchers have identified specific ways in which fetal muscle stem cells remodel their environment to support their enhanced capacity for regeneration, which could lead to targets for therapies to improve adult stem cells’ ability to replace injured or degenerated muscle.

   
8-Feb-2016 6:05 PM EST
Researchers Resolve Longstanding Issue of Components Needed to Regenerate Muscle
Sanford Burnham Prebys

Findings clear path to devise new treatments for muscular injuries and dystrophies

Released: 28-Jan-2016 2:05 PM EST
Coriell Institute Licenses PluriTest, a Novel Stem Cell Technology
Coriell Institute for Medical Research

The Coriell Institute for Medical Research today announces the in-licensing of PluriTest, a cost-effective, accurate, animal-free bioinformatics assay for determining the pluripotency of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC).

26-Jan-2016 5:00 PM EST
CRISPR Used to Repair Blindness-Causing Genetic Defect in Patient-Derived Stem Cells
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Scientists have used a new gene-editing technology called CRISPR, to repair a genetic mutation responsible for retinitis pigmentosa (RP), an inherited condition that causes the retina to degrade and leads to blindness in at least 1.5 million cases worldwide.

Released: 12-Jan-2016 12:05 PM EST
Insulin-Producing Pancreatic Cells Created from Human Skin Cells
Gladstone Institutes

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have successfully converted human skin cells into fully-functional pancreatic cells. The new cells produced insulin in response to changes in glucose levels, and, when transplanted into mice, the cells protected the animals from developing diabetes in a mouse model of the disease.

4-Jan-2016 8:05 PM EST
Genetic Traffic Signal Orchestrates Early Embryonic Development
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

New research by UC San Francisco stem cell biologists has revealed that a DNA-binding protein called Foxd3 acts like a genetic traffic signal, holding that ball of undifferentiated cells in a state of readiness for its great transformation in the third week of development.

   


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