A team's work on prostate cancer, for example, might turn out to be worthless
because cells researchers thought were prostate cancer cells turn out to be cervical cancer cells.
Stem
cell researchers performed a laboratory feat this year that was once deemed unthinkable: the artificial creation of egg cells.
Stem
cell researchers maintain that whatever the potential of adult stem cells, embryonic research could help them achieve it.
Several times I have tried to continue the work of others, only to find that addiction to media attention had driven some
stem cell researchers to make outrageous claims.
«Adult stem cells are highly applicable to many diseases, and their significance lies in how they can somehow find a site of injury in need of repair, create an environment that is conducive to repair or even become cells that are incorporated in the repair itself,» says Dr. Jorge Piedrahita, a leading stem
cell researcher at North Carolina State University's College of Veterinary Medicine.
Apart from advancing our understanding of how plants regulate their growth and shape, this research presents new questions for stem
cell researchers in regards to cell size checkpoints and their importance during organism development.
The new European Stem Cell Group aims to bring together basic stem
cell researchers from across Europe, and encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration.
«There's nothing irresponsible about the research in this case,» says stem
cell researcher Paul Knoepfler of the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine.
«This is just the first wave of diseases» that the Harvard group plans to get iPS cells from, said stem
cell researcher George Daley of Children's Hospital Boston.
• At ScienceInsider on Thursday, Mi - Young Ahn and Dennis Normile reported that discredited stem
cell researcher Woo Suk Hwang «suffered a setback in his bid to reclaim respectability today when South Korea's Supreme Court confirmed his conviction on embezzlement and bioethics violations.
Each story is described through interviews with stem
cell researchers who were directly involved or appeared on the scene later but can knowledgably discuss the event's impact.
«The time is coming when we'll repair heart tissue after a heart attack and restore blood flow to limbs that would otherwise be amputated,» says stem
cell researcher Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology in Massachusetts.
Although Emefcy has garnered a lot of attention for its progress, the microbial fuel cell industry as a whole is still trying to prove whether this will really work, says Zhen He, a microbial
fuel cell researcher at University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee's Environmental Biotechnology and Bioenergy Lab.
But the DCCC's move does contradict the state Democratic Party's endorsement process, where delegates backed prominent stem
cell researcher Hans Keirstead.
«Compared to any other device that converts chemical energy into electricity, the fuel cell, and in particular the solid oxide or ceramic fuel cell, is hands down the most efficient,» says veteran fuel
cell researcher Eric Wachsman, director of the University of Maryland Energy Research Center, who published research pointing the way to lower temperature SOFCs on November 18 in Science.
Stem
cell researcher Sean Morrison of the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor lauds NIH for «a really good job.»
«This is the first demonstration of a rejuvenation factor» that is naturally produced, declines with age, and reverses aging in multiple tissues, says Harvard University stem
cell researcher Amy Wagers, who led efforts to isolate and study the protein.
«There is still controversy out there about how similar they are,» says stem
cell researcher Konrad Hochedlinger of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
We congratulate stem
cell researcher Martin Leeb on winning an International FWF grant for the research project «Systems biology of embryonic stem...
Martin F. Pera, Ph.D., a leading stem
cell researcher with interests in neuroscience and regenerative medicine, has been appointed Professor at The Jackson Laboratory.
«FATflammation is the primary underlying cause of weight gain,» leading fat
cell researcher Dr. Lori Shemek explains.
Lori Shemek, Ph.D. is a leading
fat cell researcher and recognized authority on inflammation and its role in weight loss, preventing disease and optimizing health.
To get an idea of the stresses that stem
cell researchers face, New Scientist asked 1000 of them to fill in an anonymous online survey.
A case brought by two cardiac stem
cell researchers against their institution for allegedly mishandling a misconduct investigation was dismissed by a federal judge in Massachusetts this week.
Novocell Announces Collaboration with World - Renowned Stem
Cell Researcher Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University
To make the HSCs, the Harvard group used human skin cells to create induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), adult
cells researchers genetically reprogram to an embryonic - stem - cell state, where they can grow into any kind of cell.
In 2014, for example, according to data in the article, stem
cell researchers between 35 and 39 were successful more often than any other age group, winning grants 21.6 % of the time, as compared to success rates ranging from 18.3 % for those between 40 and 44 to 13.4 % for those in the 55 to 59 age group.
«Theoretically, this should be the ideal cell to use to get vascular repair,» says stem
cell researcher Mervin Yoder of the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, who was not part of the research.
This may still be speculative — Sherry agrees that it's not as though Sherley's grant was denied because it went directly to an
ES cell researcher.
He and his boss, stem
cell researcher Donald Phinney, wondered whether those mice were also protected from the fattening of the bone marrow that accompanies a high - fat diet.
At that time, the plaintiffs — adult stem
cell researchers James Sherley and Theresa Deisher — expect to file what's called a motion for summary judgment, which asks that the case be decided without a trial.
In a study published in Cell Reports, USC Stem
Cell researcher Xinjun He and University of Tokyo researcher Shinsuke Ohba explore how a protein called Sox9 regulates the production of cartilage.
«It can depend on how you are looking at it, whether stem cells are good or bad,» says NIH cardiologist and stem
cell researcher Richard Cannon.
said Carl June, a pioneering CAR
T cell researcher and professor of immunotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
► In a Thursday ScienceInsider, Kelly Servick reported that the case brought by heart stem
cell researchers Piero Anversa and Annarosa Leri «against their institution,» Harvard Medical School and its affiliate, Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), «for allegedly mishandling a misconduct investigation was dismissed by a federal judge in Massachusetts this week.
Fate «is counting on this patent to raise funding, so they will be relentless» in pushing their claims, says stem
cell researcher Jeanne Loring of the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego.
And in the third paper, published online today in Science, developmental biologists and stem
cell researchers Hugo Snippert, Arnout Schepers, Hans Clevers, and their colleagues at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, the Netherlands, used mice with multicolored intestines to look at the kinds of cells that form intestinal adenomas, a precursor to intestinal cancer.
Stem
cell researchers call them «a major step in the right direction,» although some were disappointed that NIH didn't open the door to the use of embryos created for research purposes — including through somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning) and parthenogenesis (from an unfertilized egg).
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