“Latest Stem Cells News”

The judicial injunction blocking federally funded human embryonic stem cell research not only blocks potential life-saving research but also threatens to undermine the system of peer-reviewed science that has helped make America the unquestioned world leader in scientific discovery... […]

The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "Stem Cells, Politics and the Law," Michael Tomasky, The Guardian's "Michael Tomasky's Blog": The main issue in this week's embryonic stem cell ruling is "the direct connection between a ruling like this ... and the way the GOP plays politics […]

International Stem Cell Corporation (OTCBB:ISCO), announced that the recent action of a federal district judge blocking federal funding of embryonic stem cell research is not expected to have negative effects on ISCO's therapeutic programs using its human parthenogenetic stem cells... […]

By creating diseased liver cells from a small sample of human skin, scientists have for the first time shown that stem cells can be used to model a diverse range of inherited disorders. The University of Cambridge researchers' findings, which will hopefully lead to new treatments for those suffering from liver diseases, were published in The Journal of […]

By creating diseased liver cells from a small sample of human skin, scientists have now shown that stem cells can be used to model a diverse range of inherited disorders. The researchers' findings will hopefully lead to new treatments for those suffering from liver diseases. […]

Researchers have tracked a cell-to-cell pathway that designates the future location of the ear's sensory organs in embryonic mice. The scientists succeeded in activating this signal more widely across the embronic tissue that forms the inner ear. Patches of sensory structures began growing in spots where they don't normally appear. The results sugg […]

Production of new nerve cells in the human brain is linked to learning and memory, according to a new study. The research is the first to show such a link in humans. The findings provide clues about processes involved in age- and health-related memory loss and reveal potential cellular targets for drug therapy. […]

Great excitement greeted the discovery a few years ago that certain cells from mice and humans could be reprogrammed to become inducible pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) as they hold promise for cell replacement therapy and modeling human disease. Two independent research groups have now shown that both possibilities are true for iPS cell-derived liver cel […]

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A number of shots have been fired at police during a third night of violence in north Belfast. And the Justice Secretary, Kenneth Clarke, has told judges there is no link between rising levels of imprisonment and falling crime. […]

Sir Liam Donaldson, England's chief medical officer looks back on his 12-year tenure. […]

A hospital in Suffolk gets new equipment to defrost frozen stem cells to be transplanted in to cancer patients. […]

Research paves way for new liver disease research and possibly cell-based therapy Thursday, 26 August 2010 By creating diseased liver cells from a small sample of human skin, scientists have for the first time shown that stem cells can be used to model a diverse range of inherited disorders. The University of Cambridge researchers' findings, which will […]

New synthetic surfaces overcome challenges posed by existing methods Monday, 23 August 2010 This image shows human embryonic stem cells grown on a synthetic surface developed by MIT researchers. The cellsat top (blue) are stained to reveal their nuclei, while the cells in the middle and bottom are stained for proteins that are known to be present when cells […]

Physical model describes the distribution of nucleosomes Friday, 20 August 2010 The crystal structure of the nucleosome core particle consisting of H2A, H2B, H3 and H4 and DNA. The view is from the top through the superhelical axis. The DNA genomes of organisms whose cells possess nuclei are packaged in a highly characteristic fashion. Most of the DNA is tig […]

Natural Lung Material is Promising Scaffold for Engineering Lung Tissue Using Embryonic Stem Cells Friday, 20 August 2010 The first successful report of using cell-depleted lung as a natural growth matrix for generating new rat lung from embryonic stem cells is presented in a breakthrough article in Tissue Engineering, Part A, a peer-reviewed journal publish […]

UCI study is first to show reversal of long-term hind-limb paralysis Friday, 20 August 2010 A UC Irvine study is the first to demonstrate that human neural stem cells can restore mobility in cases of chronic spinal cord injury, suggesting the prospect of treating a much broader population of patients. Human neural stem cells transplanted into mice grew into […]