Stem Cells

Survey: Americans Favor Expanded Cord Blood Stem Cell Research

Survey: Americans Favor Expanded Cord Blood Stem Cell Research

SAN BRUNO, Calif., July 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Far from being sharply divided, the American people are in broad support of more stem cell research, according to… Read more »

Advancing Toward Multiple Sclerosis Therapies Using Stem Cells

Advancing Toward Multiple Sclerosis Therapies Using Stem Cells

Dr. Tom Lane of the University of Utah (formerly a CIRM grantee at UC – Irvine) describes his lab’s experimental results that show a dramatic reversal in… Read more »

Muscle paralysis eased by light-sensitive stem cells

Muscle paralysis eased by light-sensitive stem cells

Stimulating neurons with light can restore movement to paralysed mouse muscles – a step towards using “optogenetic” approaches to treat nerve disorders. Click link for full story: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25358#.U0gIcK1dXpE

A Changing View of Bone Marrow Cells

A Changing View of Bone Marrow Cells

Caltech researchers show that the cells are actively involved in sensing infection. In the battle against infection, immune cells are the body’s offense and defense—some cells go… Read more »

High hopes for space grown stem cells

High hopes for space grown stem cells

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic are preparing to test their theory that stem cells grow faster in microgravity. With a grant from an organisation that promotes research… Read more »

Stem cell power unleashed after 30 minute dip in acid

Stem cell power unleashed after 30 minute dip in acid

The revolutionary discovery that any cell can be rewound to a pre-embryonic state remarkably easily could usher in new therapies and cloning techniques Click here for complete… Read more »

A Brief History of Stem Cells

A Brief History of Stem Cells

A timeline spanning 60 years of stem cell research. Reporting by Kevin Mayer/ Video by Sunya Bhutta From GEN Publishing