A team of researchers from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Coimbra, led by Dr. Lino Ferreira, MIT Portugal Program Faculty and researcher at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC) in collaboration with Langer Lab at MIT (USA), has developed a new technology, which is promising to understand and treat ischemic...
Tag: <span>Stem Cell</span>
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Multiple sclerosis: Oligodendrocytes from stem cells
A scientific collaboration between stem cell researchers of the Heinrich-Heine-University led by Prof. Küry (Dept. of Neurology) and by Prof. Adjaye (Institute for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine) with support from British and Chilean colleagues resulted in a new publication on the prospective use of stem cells to generate cell replacement in diseases such...
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A new role for insulin as a vital factor in maintaining stem cells
New research conducted at the stem cell centre, DanStem, at the University of Copenhagen shows that insulin is a key determinant of embryonic stem cell potency in mammals New research conducted at the stem cell centre, DanStem, at the University of Copenhagen shows that insulin is a key determinant of embryonic stem cell potency in...
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A ‘social control’ system guarantees embryonic stem cell purity
The CNIC research team has devised a novel image analysis tool that allows groups of pluripotent cells to be tracked according to the level of Myc in each cell A sophisticated system of ‘social control’ operating between neighboring cells allows embryos to protect the purity of their pluripotent cell population, which is able to generate...
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Does brain tissue regeneration depend on maturity of stem cells used for transplantation?
New research has shown that the success of transplanting stem cells into the brain to regenerate tissue damaged by stroke may depend on the maturity of the neuronal precursor cells used for transplantation. A study demonstrating the significant impact of human neuronal precursor cell maturity on cell survival after transplantation into stroke-injured rate brains is...
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Monkeys with Parkinson’s disease benefit from human stem cells
Monkeys show reduced Parkinsonian symptoms following a donor-matched iPS cell-based therapy. One of the last steps before treating patients with an experimental cell therapy for the brain is confirmation that the therapy works in monkeys. Today, scientists at the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, Japan, report monkeys with Parkinson’s...
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Scientists devise ‘promising’ new stem cell treatment that has the ‘potential to cure Parkinson’s disease’ and stop tremors
In trials on laboratory monkeys, researchers were able to restore nerve cells In humans, the disease causes a loss of neurons, which affects movement Experts hailed the findings of the Japanese study to be ‘extremely promising’ A pioneering new stem cell treatment with the ‘potential to cure Parkinson’s disease’ has been crafted by researchers. In...
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FDA cracks down on stem-cell clinics, including one using smallpox vaccine in cancer patients
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday announced a crackdown on stem-cell clinics offering on “unapproved and potentially dangerous” treatments, including an outfit in California that has been using the smallpox vaccine on seriously ill cancer patients. U.S. marshals on Friday raided San Diego-based StemImmune Inc. and seized the vaccine, which the FDA said had been combined...
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Battling baldness by jumpstarting stem cells with lactate
Untreated mouse skin on the left versus skin that was treated with the drug UK5099 on the right If stem cells can do everything from growing skulls to generating new heart tissue, you’d think they’d also be able to help regrow hair on balding heads. In fact, they soon might be able to do just that. Last...
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Scientists identify a new way to activate stem cells to make hair grow
UCLA researchers have discovered a new way to activate the stem cells in the hair follicle to make hair grow. The research, led by scientists Heather Christofk and William Lowry, may lead to new drugs that could promote hair growth for people with baldness or alopecia, which is hair loss associated with such factors as...