Mass-produced stem cells on the horizon
22 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Experts at the University of Nottingham have discovered the first fully synthetic substrate with potential to grow billions of stem cells...
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Stem cells are undifferentiated biological cells that can differentiate into specialised cells and can divide to produce more stem cells.
22 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Experts at the University of Nottingham have discovered the first fully synthetic substrate with potential to grow billions of stem cells...
21 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Medical Research Council (MRC) scientists have repaired a damaged liver in a mouse by transplanting liver stem cells grown in the laboratory...
15 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Weizmann Institute scientists have shown how it might be possible to use embryonic stem cells to repair damaged lung tissue...
13 July 2015 | By Victoria White
The USC Stem Cell labs of Hooman Allayee and Gregor Adams have uncovered genes that affect blood stem cell development and maintenance...
8 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Two teams of researchers have discovered a molecule that may favour the production of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells)...
6 July 2015 | By Caroline Richards, Editor
Inspired by her attendance at ISSCR 2015, Editor of Drug Target Review, Caroline Richards, discusses stem cells and the rise of unregulated stem cell practitioners...
3 July 2015 | By Victoria White
New research demonstrates a standardised method for quantifying the effectiveness of different stem cells for treating retinal degeneration...
26 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Neuralstem has presented preclinical data on genetically modified HK532-IGF-1 stem cells in Alzheimer's disease at the ISSCR Annual Meeting...
26 June 2015 | By Victoria White
UIC Researchers have identified a molecular mechanism that directs embryonic stem cells to mature into endothelial cells...
25 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers have grown the types of neurons affected by Parkinson's disease, starting from neuronal stem cells in a three-dimensional cell culture system...
17 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers at Lawson Health Research Institute have identified a new stem cell population in the colon linked to colon cancer growth...
Stem cells differentiate to form more than 200 specialised cells, including erythroid bodies, haematopoietic cells, myogenic cells, neural cells, signalling cells and structural cells, such as hepatocytes. Differentiation of stem cells triggers a number of variable changes in the cell, such as membrane potential, responsiveness to signal, metabolic activities, and…
12 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers combined a variety of structural biology approaches to rationally design a new compound that could repress the biological activity of PPARy...
12 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Scientists have created 3D organoid-structures that recapitulate normal breast development and function from single patient-derived cells...
Procedures for cardiac differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) have greatly improved over the past few years. The facilitated derivation of hPSC-cardiomyocytes has enabled the thorough assessment of their physiology and manipulation of their properties. Moreover, patient-specific hPSCs generated through cellular reprogramming allow for cardiac disease modelling, discovery of…