Stem Cells
Read ELP’s Nicholas Staropoli Reddit Science ‘Ask Me Anything’ on Epigenetics: Hype and Health
Editor’s Note: On Friday, June 2nd from 1pm–3pm EDT, ELP director Nicholas Staropoli hosted a Reddit-science Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) about the hype surrounding ...
Video: Micro-bubbles and stem cell gene therapy heal bone fractures in pigs
It takes more than a cast and a little time to heal many broken bones....Now, researchers have combined ultrasound, stem ...
Breakthrough for bone marrow transplant recipients: Lab-grown blood stem cells produced for first time
After 20 years of trying, scientists have transformed mature cells into primordial blood cells that regenerate themselves and the components ...
Good with the bad: Cancer and life-saving stem cells stimulated by same gene
Life, it seems, is not without a sense of irony, as a research team led by investigators at the Johns ...
New transplantation era beckons if we’re ok with growing organs in pigs
Some day, human organs from pigs may fill the organ gap, and the needed science and engineering is advancing rapidly, ...
Stem cell clinics accused of promising more than they can deliver, and worse
It's a nightmare story: Three women pay tens of thousands of dollars to a South Florida clinic for unproven "stem ...
Parkinson’s stem cell therapy 2.0: New treatment coaxes the brain to repair itself
For the past five decades pharmaceutical drugs like levodopa have been the gold standard for treating Parkinson’s disease. These medications ...
Umbilical cord stem cells may yield treatment for autism
Gracie [Gregory] was one of 25 children who took part in the first-of-its-kind study at Duke University in Durham, North ...
Time to amend human embryo research ’14-day rule’?
The rule that cuts off research on human embryos at 14 days gestation is based on an arbitrary time limit ...
Donor blood shortage solved? Scientists can now mass produce artificial blood
Every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood, and every year, 4.5 million Americans would die without life-saving blood ...
Macular degeneration treated by stem cells donated by another person
On 28 March, a Japanese man in his 60s became the first person to receive cells derived from induced pluripotent ...
On the horizon: Genes pointing to potential Parkinson’s disease therapies
The ongoing revolution in genetics is playing an increasingly important role in our understanding of the [Parkinson's] disease while also revealing ...
Human skin, brain and bone cells grown on plants offer path for tissue implants
To grow clusters of human stem cells that mimic organs in the lab and might be used someday in tissue ...
Is it time to abandon the 14-day rule limiting human embryo research?
[A] group of Harvard University scientists has published a paper arguing that it is time to reconsider the 14-day rule ...
Unreliable science? Scores of mice studies may be tainted because of standard handling practice
Scores of scientific studies based on mice are being called into question because their behaviour is affected by the way ...
Injection with own stem cells alleviates chest pains, angina, study finds
A non-surgical treatment that uses a patient’s own bone marrow stem cells to treat chest pain or angina improved both ...
How does the body control stem cells? ‘It’s like a game of roulette’
Stem cells are unspecialized cells that can develop into any type of cell in the human body. So far, however, ...
Woman’s vision improved after first successful stem cell (iPS) treatment
A woman in her 80's has become the first person to be successfully treated with induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells ...
Strategy shift: Stem cell research uses donor cells to cut tumor risks
Scientists can create [induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells] from any cell in the body. [But while they]...can be “reprogrammed” to ...
3 women blinded after receiving stem cell therapy for macular degeneration
Three women suffered severe, permanent eye damage after stem cells were injected into their eyes, in an unproven treatment at ...
Sickle cell cure? Patient in complete remission following gene therapy
A number of recent headlines imply a recent case study just published...proves that gene therapy has cured sickle cell disease—a ...
No egg? No sperm? No problem. First artificial embryo made from stem cells
Using stem cells in grown-on 3D scaffolding in a laboratory petri dish, scientists have for the first time created an ...
Body parts from fruit? Skin grafts may use apples to grow human tissue
Biophysicist Andrew Pelling of University of Ottawa wants to [use apples to determine] the future of biomaterials and human tissue repair.... “What ...
Injured MLB pitchers opt for unproven stem cell injections over Tommy John surgery
[Editor's note: Tommy John surgery is a surgical procedure in which the ulnar collateral ligament in the elbow is replaced with ...
Loud noises kill cells vital for hearing, but gut stem cells may help regrow them
Humans are born with around 15,000 hair cells — think tiny, sound-sensing fibers — in each ear. The cells can’t ...
From rough sketches to virtual reality: How scientists study, learn about developing embryos
Armed with a wand and funky spectacles, Beatrice Steinert steps into a world of lush green mounds and bright blue ...
Disease treatment, tissue regeneration may be bolstered by precise identification of stem cells
Scientists at Rutgers and other universities have created a new way to identify the state and fate of stem cells ...