The Beauty Of Pluripotent Stem Cells – Great Intro
By Muhammad Khan, TEDxBrentwoodCollegeSchool Stem cells are extremely new to science, and research (despite being hindered) is advancing at an amazing pace. In 2012 a man named… Read more »
Studying Stem Cells With Computational Image Analysis
Stem cell research is one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving fields in science today. Using the latest software developed at Drexel’s Computational Image Sequence Analysis… Read more »
Engineering Stem Cells: From In Vitro to In Situ
Engineering Stem Cells: From In Vitro to In Situ Stem cells are a valuable cell source for tissue engineering, disease modeling and drug screening. A recent discovery… Read more »
Utilizing Oral Mucosa Stem Cells for the Prevention and Treatment of Ischemic Heart Failure
Lecture by Dr. Yosef Gafni, PhD, DMD
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
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
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 »