Cerebrospinal fluid signals control the behavior of stem cells in the brain
Prof. Fiona Doetsch’s research team at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, has discovered that the choroid plexus, a largely ignored structure in the brain that produces the… Read more »
Lasers Carve the Path to Tissue Engineering
Future medicine is bound to include extensive tissue-engineering technologies such as organs-on-chips and organoids – miniature organs grown from stem cells. But all this is predicated on… Read more »
Evidence that Zika causes neural stem cells to self-destruct
A new addition in the growing number of studies using brain organoids to understand how the Zika virus leads to microcephaly reveals that human neural stem cells… Read more »
Stem cells used to successfully regenerate damage in corticospinal injury
For first time, researchers show functional benefit in animal model of key motor control system Writing in the March 28, 2016 issue of Nature Medicine, researchers at… Read more »
Edited stem cells offer hope of precision therapy for blindness
Findings raise the possibility of treating blinding eye diseases using a patient’s own corrected cells as replacement tissue Using a new technology for repairing disease genes–the much-talked-about… Read more »
Stem Cell Battles: Proposition 71 and Beyond
Don Reed’s new book “Stem Cell Battles: Proposition 71 and Beyond” (available at Amazon) gives us an insider’s perspective on the historical whirlwind that today is driving… Read more »
New Research: Combining Adult Stem Cells with Hormone May Speed Bone Fracture Healing
LOS ANGELES (Dec. 8, 2015) ? A combination of adult stem cells and parathyroid hormone significantly increased new bone formation in laboratory animals and may speed the… Read more »