MSCs and bone repair
Two years ago, Pamela Robey broke two bones in her leg, a consequence of snow outside and an errant boot. “I slipped and my boot heel got caught in a crack,” she says. “I was moving very fast but my leg was not.”
Two years ago, Pamela Robey broke two bones in her leg, a consequence of snow outside and an errant boot. “I slipped and my boot heel got caught in a crack,” she says. “I was moving very fast but my leg was not.”
The fast-paced, vibrant world of stem cell science has more than its fair share of brilliant minds. Many probably have at one time or another considered striking out on their own to market some new invention from their lab.
On April 19, Geron Corp. presented safety data on the first patient in its groundbreaking clinical trial of GRNOPC1.
You don’t need much scaffolding for a one-story home, but if you’re putting up a high-rise, you’ll require plenty of it to create the rising edifice.
California researchers are set to begin the first clinical trial of souped-up stem cells that seek and destroy brain cancer by delivering the means to make a potent chemotherapeutic.
Many stem cell biologists have experienced the frustration: you do an experiment; your lab mate at the next bench does the same. But the two of you get different results.
A 57-year-old man, suffering seizures and headaches, was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2005. Doctors at the City of Hope cancer center in Duarte, California, removed the mass, but knew his cancer was of a type likely to return.
Research teams from Harvard Medical School in Boston and Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, found that deleting FoxO genes in mice resulted in NSCs that initially proliferated overtime, but ultimately were unable to provide normal level
The very nature of stem cells—rare cell types that seem to infrequently divide—makes asking basic questions about their division cycles a challenge.
Researchers are finding ways to make more induced pluripotent stem cells, faster. The catch: it requires turning off some of the cell's key tumor suppressors—a risky proposition for cells researchers hope to someday transplant into patients.