by rss feed | Jan 27, 2014 | News Feeds, Stem Cell Research
Stem cells can turn into heart cells, skin cells can mutate to cancer cells; even cells of the same tissue type exhibit small heterogeneities. Scientists use single-cell analyses to investigate these heterogeneities. But the method is still laborious and considerable...
by rss feed | Jan 15, 2014 | News Feeds, Stem Cell Research
Harvard stem cells scientists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and MIT can now engineer cells that are more easily controlled following transplantation, potentially making cell therapies, hundreds of which are currently in clinical trials across the United...
by rss feed | Jan 15, 2014 | News Feeds, Stem Cell Research
Geneticists from Ohio, California and Japan joined forces in a quest to correct a faulty chromosome through cellular reprogramming. Their study, published online in Nature, used stem cells to correct a defective “ring chromosome” with a normal chromosome....
by rss feed | Jan 9, 2014 | News Feeds, Stem Cell Research
Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have gained new insight into how both early embryonic cells and embryonic stem cells are directed into becoming specialised cell types, like pancreatic and liver cells. The results have just been published in the scientific...
by rss feed | Jan 4, 2014 | News Feeds, Stem Cell Research
Biologists at UC San Diego have discovered an effective strategy that could prevent the human immune system from rejecting the grafts derived from human embryonic stem cells, a major problem now limiting the development of human stem cell therapies.
