Bone Marrow Donors Can Be Hard to Find. One Company Is Turning to Cadavers
Ossium Health is pioneering stem cell transplants from deceased donors, addressing the donor shortage for blood cancer patients, particularly minorities.
Blood stem cells grown in LAB could end need for bone marrow donors
Lab-grown blood stem cells offer new hope for leukemia treatments and other blood disorders.
The innovation could reduce the need for matched bone marrow donors in children with blood diseases.
Bone Marrow Donors Can Be Hard to Find. One Company Is Turning to Cadavers
Ossium Health is pioneering stem cell transplants from deceased donors, addressing the donor shortage for blood cancer patients, particularly minorities.
Blood stem cells grown in LAB could end need for bone marrow donors
Lab-grown blood stem cells offer new hope for leukemia treatments and other blood disorders.
The innovation could reduce the need for matched bone marrow donors in children with blood diseases.
Scientists Use Human Stem Cells to Restore a Monkey's Vision
Stem cells can effectively patch a monkey's retinal hole, suggesting a promising treatment for age-related vision loss.
CRISPR helps brain stem cells regain youth in mice
Disabling a specific metabolism-related gene can rejuvenate neural stem cells, enhancing their ability to produce new neurons as organisms age.
Biden-created agency to swap aging brains with young lab-grown tissue
US funding supports controversial brain transplant research aiming to combat aging using embryonic stem cells, with mixed reactions from the scientific community and public.
Scientists Use Human Stem Cells to Restore a Monkey's Vision
Stem cells can effectively patch a monkey's retinal hole, suggesting a promising treatment for age-related vision loss.
CRISPR helps brain stem cells regain youth in mice
Disabling a specific metabolism-related gene can rejuvenate neural stem cells, enhancing their ability to produce new neurons as organisms age.
Biden-created agency to swap aging brains with young lab-grown tissue
US funding supports controversial brain transplant research aiming to combat aging using embryonic stem cells, with mixed reactions from the scientific community and public.
Scientists have developed a technique to pause human embryo growth, potentially enhancing IVF success by allowing for better assessment before implantation.
Daily briefing: Carbon bond that uses only one electron seen for first time
A single-electron covalent bond between carbon atoms has been observed for the first time, potentially revolutionizing our understanding of chemical bonds.
Stem cells from a diabetes patient show promise in treating type 1 diabetes without the need for immunosuppressants.
Engineering Human Heart Tissue for Scientific Study - News Center
Northwestern Medicine scientists created engineered heart tissues for real-time monitoring of heart contraction and electrical activity, enhancing heart disease research.
Children with Down's syndrome are more likely to get leukaemia: stem-cells hint at why
Children with Down's syndrome have a significantly increased risk of leukaemia linked to genomic changes in fetal liver stem cells.
The surprising cause of fasting's regenerative powers
Breaking a fast offers significant health benefits, particularly in enhancing stem cell activity for repair, but also poses risks such as potential cancer development.
Study Suggests Fasting's Benefits Might Start When It Stops
Fasting has potential health benefits, particularly related to fat metabolism and intestinal repair, yet may also carry risks like increasing precancerous cells.
Daily briefing: It's not the fasting, it's the eating
Breaking a fast enhances gut stem cell regeneration but may also increase cancer risks according to a study in mice.
The surprising cause of fasting's regenerative powers
Breaking a fast offers significant health benefits, particularly in enhancing stem cell activity for repair, but also poses risks such as potential cancer development.
Study Suggests Fasting's Benefits Might Start When It Stops
Fasting has potential health benefits, particularly related to fat metabolism and intestinal repair, yet may also carry risks like increasing precancerous cells.
Daily briefing: It's not the fasting, it's the eating
Breaking a fast enhances gut stem cell regeneration but may also increase cancer risks according to a study in mice.
Itzy Morales Pantoja transitioned from animal testing to developing lab-grown models to advance neurodegeneration research and reduce reliance on animal studies.
Human organoids with an autologous tissue-resident immune compartment - Nature
Organoids are crucial in modeling human physiology but lack key immune system components vital for comprehensive disease study.
Advanced 'Parkinson's in a dish' model accelerates research- Harvard Gazette
Could result in personalized models to test diagnostic and treatment strategies
The Real Reason Studying Menstrual Blood Is So Important
The discovery of adult stem cells in the endometrium opens up potential for treating women's health conditions.
Secret to eternal youth? John Cleese extols virtues of stem cell treatment
Stem cells are a popular treatment choice among celebrities for potential anti-aging effects and healing benefits.
Scientists Found a Way to Supercharge Cancer-Fighting Cells
Bioengineered CAR T cells can be rejuvenated by engineering high levels of a specific protein, resembling stem cells, enhancing cancer-fighting abilities.
One year, three researchers, millions of cells: how a small team created the largest mouse-embryo atlas so far
Single-cell resolution tracking of 12.4 million mouse cells reveals development process.
Technique enables creation of embryonic mouse cell atlas at lower cost and smaller team size.
Company that plans to bring back the mammoth takes a key step
DNA editing and stem cells used to restore extinct species like the thylacine and dodo.
Colossal faces practical hurdles, like the slow reproductive biology of mammoths' closest living relatives.
Scientists Are Inching Closer to Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth
De-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences aims to create 'functional mammoths' by genetic editing of Asian elephant cells.
Scientists at Colossal have achieved reprogramming of Asian elephant cells to an embryonic-like state, potentially facilitating the creation of elephant sperm and eggs in the lab.
Company that plans to bring back the mammoth takes a key step
DNA editing and stem cells used to restore extinct species like the thylacine and dodo.
Colossal faces practical hurdles, like the slow reproductive biology of mammoths' closest living relatives.
Scientists Are Inching Closer to Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth
De-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences aims to create 'functional mammoths' by genetic editing of Asian elephant cells.
Scientists at Colossal have achieved reprogramming of Asian elephant cells to an embryonic-like state, potentially facilitating the creation of elephant sperm and eggs in the lab.
Scientists take a step closer to resurrecting the woolly mammoth
Woolly mammoth's stem cell milestone reached by biotech company
Mammoths may walk among humans again through genetic engineering techniques
Scientists Grow Teeny Tiny Testicles in Laboratory
Lab-grown testicles can potentially treat male infertility.
Previous success in growing testicles from stem cells.
Hope for MS sufferers as doctors 'cautiously very excited' about stem cell therapy in brain
Scientists have discovered a groundbreaking treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) that could stop its progression.
Stem cell injections in the brain of patients with secondary MS showed no worsening of the illness a year later.
The stem cell transplant reduced inflammation and may stabilize disability progression in MS patients.
Newly discovered stem cell offers clues to a cancer mystery
Scientists have discovered a new type of stem cell in the spine that may explain why more cancer cells spread to the spine than other bones in the body.
The discovery of these vertebral skeletal stem cells could have implications for cancer treatment, spine fusion surgery, and osteoporosis.
The cells make a protein that is a signal to tumor cells, raising new treatment possibilities.
Doctors encouraged by early-stage trial of MS stem cell therapy
Injecting stem cells into the brains of multiple sclerosis patients was found to be safe and potentially protective against further damage from the disease.
The therapy reduced inflammation and may have a long-lasting, beneficial impact on patients with secondary progressive MS.
Further research is needed to determine the full potential of this treatment for multiple sclerosis.
MS breakthrough could lead to treatments that halt disease's progression
Injecting stem cells into the brains of patients with progressive MS could potentially stop the disease advancing.
The procedure was found to be safe, well tolerated, and had a long-lasting effect that protected the brain from further damage.
This study provides hope for the development of a cell therapy for treating MS.
Chinese scientists create Frankenstein robot that has a HUMAN BRAIN
Scientists created a robot with a lab-grown brain that functions similarly to a human brain, offering potential solutions for neurological disorders.
IV infusion enables editing of the cystic fibrosis gene in lung stem cells
The development of gene editing techniques faces challenges in targeting specific cells and tissues affected by genetic diseases, requiring innovative approaches for effective treatment.