Stem Cells
2016 Presidential Race: Clinton, Trump, Stein and Johnson on Biomedical Research
GLP continues its series on the presidential candidate's positions on genetics and biotechnology. Today we assess Trump, Clinton, Johnson, and ...
Looking back on gene editing’s thirty years of development
In the mid-1980s, Oliver Smithies, then at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Mario Capecchi of the University of Utah independently ...
Cure for sickle cell anemia within reach thanks to gene editing
A new treatment for the blood disease sickle cell anemia is possible now that scientists have figured out how to ...
Transplanted stem cells can induce heart to heal itself
Heart disease, the thing that kills more Americans than any other cause, is a process...What makes heart disease a seemingly ...
Is editing RNA safer, more effective than DNA for studying, treating cancer?
The causes of damaging changes to DNA are many...As a result, scientists began to consider RNA. If DNA were a ...
Growing hybrid human-chimp brains to understand intellectual differences and disease
In her own small corner of this research utopia at the human brain laboratory at the University of Cambridge, Madeleine ...
Human embryonic stem cells relieve common side effects of spinal cord injuries in mice
People with spinal cord injuries suffer from many complications in addition to paralysis and numbness. Some of these problems are ...
Why studying human chimeras offers best hope for finding Parkinson’s cure
Spectrum: Why do researchers want to study mouse-human chimeras? Rudolf Jaenisch: Traditionally, researchers have studied human conditions by mutating the ...
How human chimeras could revolutionize science and medicine
The NIH appears ready to fund scientists who want to make and study human chimeras. What can we hope to ...
Looking back on ten years of induced pluripotent stem cell research
Research and emerging treatments with stem cells today can be traced to a startling discovery 10 years ago when Shinya ...
First quadriplegic to undergo stem cell treatment can now use upper body
For the first time ever, neuroscientists have treated a total quadriplegic with stem cells, and he has substantially recovered the ...
Scientists develop stem cell techniques that uses magnets to repair bones
Tiny bundles of stem cells built in the laboratory using microscopic magnets could pave the way to revolutionize the treatment ...
FDA’s new stem cell guidelines receive both praise and criticism
The [FDA's] new guidelines...clarify existing regulation by outlining what uses of human tissue can be offered to patients without FDA ...
Should next US President abandon the Biden-Obama ‘moonshot’ cancer initiative?
Obama's cancer-cure initiative may sound like a winning policy, but critics are lining up to suggest it shouldn't be continued ...
Stem cells injected into brain of Parkinson’s patient for first time
Doctors from the Royal Melbourne Hospital successfully injected stem cells onto the brain of a 64-year old Parkinson’s Disease patient ...
Pioneering stem cell treatment may help patients with spinal-cord injury
A company that stepped in to salvage the first-ever medical use of human embryonic stem cells says it has encouraging ...
Should FDA crack down on stem cell clinics?
Stem cell clinics operating in the U.S. market cures for nearly every kind of disorder without evidence they work or ...
FDA may shut down stem cell clinics just when research starting to show promise
Scientists on [Sept. 12] will urge the Food and Drug Administration to crack down on rogue clinics across the country ...
Neurons have surprising amount of genomic diversity
Our brains contain a surprising diversity of DNA. Even though we are taught that every cell in our body has ...
Could adult stem cell therapy revolutionize medicine?
[Rather than embryonic stem cells, t]he more exciting development...is the discovery that our own adult stem cells have a lot ...
Stem cells from bone marrow proved more helpful than those from bloodstream
Blood stem cells derived from donor bone marrow resulted in better self-reported psychological well-being, fewer graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) symptoms, and ...
‘SkinGun’ sprays stem cells to heal burns and wounds
An experimental treatment that sprays on your own stem cells to treat second degree burns...is one of the latest trends ...
Chimeric organ transplants: Science and ethics of growing human organs in pigs
Scientists may soon offer a solution to the organ shortage by growing human organs in pigs. But that poses prickly ...
Success of adult stem cells buried under media misrepresentation
Stem cell therapies and their lifesaving results are arguably the best kept medical secret. Stem cells are currently being used ...
Scientists creating genetically engineered synthetic supermicrobe
It’s not finished yet. But if it is, it will be the greatest feat of genetic engineering by far. A ...
Curing diseases with embryonic stem cells proving much harder than expected
[N]o field of biotechnology has promised more and delivered less in the way of treatments than embryonic stem cells. Only ...
Potential benefits of human-animal chimeras vastly outweigh risks
If we had a cheap and unlimited supply of healthy organs for transplant, it wouldn’t just transform the lives of ...
