Medical News Today 17 July 2015 by Markus MacGill Scientists have converted skin cells from patients with autism into stem cells and grown them into tiny brains in a dish, revealing unexpected mechanisms of the disease, according to a report in the journal Cell. Skin cells from the patients with autism were converted to induced pluripotent […]
Monthly Archives: August, 2015
Getting Into the Groove Helps Stem Cells Switch Into Heart Muscle Cells
Colin Smith Imperial London College 18 August 2015 Scientists have shown that they can drive cardiac stem cells to become heart muscle cells using a silicon chip etched with grooves. The team from Imperial College London have developed a silicon chip with tiny grooves, which are 0.01 millimetres wide and only 0.0003 millimetres deep. They […]
Stem Cells, Fecal Transplants Show Promise for Crohn’s Disease
US News & World Report April 10, 2015 Two experimental therapies might help manage the inflammatory bowel disorder Crohn’s disease, if this early research pans out. In one study, researchers found that a fecal transplant — stool samples taken from a healthy donor — seemed to send Crohn’s symptoms into remission in seven of nine […]
NCER Position Statement on Use of Fetal Tissue in Research
August 6, 2015 The Center for Medical Progress videos showing Planned Parenthood harvesting and allegedly selling organs and body parts from aborted human beings prompts NCER to restate our principles about the unethical nature of fetal tissue research. The following are some of the key principles contained in NCER’s longstanding Position Paper on Aborted Fetal […]
Supercharging Stem Cells to Create New Therapies
As seen in Science Daily:July 3, 2015 Source:University of Adelaide Summary: A new method for culturing stem cells has been developed, which sees the highly therapeutic cells grow faster and stronger. Stem cell therapy is showing promising signs for transplant patients, and the IL-17 treated stem cells should be even more effective at preventing and […]
Gene-Sequence Swap Using CRISPR to Cure Hemophilia
As seen in Science Daily – July 23, 2015 Source: Institute for Basic Science Summary: For the first time, chromosomal defects responsible for hemophilia have been corrected in patient-specific iPSCs using CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases. Hemophilia A occurs in about 1 in 5,000 male births and almost half of severe cases are caused by identified “chromosomal inversions.” […]