Sentences with phrase «stem cell technology»

So the time is ripe for renewed discussion of the uses of stem cell technologies.

Published in Stem Cell Reports, the study investigated the brain cell function of familial AD patients by using stem cell technologies.

She heard scientists, philosophers, theologians, and policymakers discuss cutting - edge stem cell technologies and their ethical ramifications.

But these cells are hard to come by, so researchers have looked towards stem cell technology as a way to make them.

While there are amazing advances being made with stem cell technology, the film rightly cautions viewers about the dangers of going to a stem cell clinic abroad.

The developments not only help move stem cell technologies closer to the clinic, but also provide a new tool for research.

For example if you go out and invent new stem cell technology, you might be at odds with society in some places of the world.

And biotech companies are registering patents almost daily covering commercial aspects of stem cell technology development.

So, scientists have long looked to stem cell technology as a potential alternative.

«Today's findings exemplify the many advances we've made in using CRISPR - Cas9 and human induced pluripotent stem cell technologies and the amazing discoveries that have resulted,» said Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD, of the Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan.

«Thanks to advances in stem cell technologies and gene editing, we are finally starting to address disease - causing mutations that impact potentially millions of people,» says Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a professor in Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory and a corresponding author of the paper.

This Korean researcher racked up a series of important advances in embryonic stem cell technology, including the first lines of cells from patients

«Alan has contributed significantly to building Novocell into the leading innovator in the development of stem cell technologies for the treatment of diabetes,» said Fred Middleton, Chairman of the Novocell Board of Directors and Managing Director, Sanderling Ventures.

The mission of Novocell's researchers continues to be to develop stem cell technology for clinical therapy.

MaRS Innovation is delighted to announce that two of its commercialization projects — notably an umbilical cord stem cell technology from Mount Sinai Hospital and nicotine addiction therapy from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)-- have received Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Proof of Principle (PoP) funding.

They combined innovative stem cell technology with a new screening method that can test thousands of DNA segments at once to see whether or not they are gene enhancers.

The grant will fund Izpisua Belmonte's lab in attempting to generate functional primate organs and tissues in vivo in a large animal host, the pig, using novel stem cell technologies his team has developed and recently discovered gene - editing technologies.

NYSCF Principal Investigator Dr. Valentina Fossati shared how stem cell technology has revolutionized multiple sclerosis research during the session on remyelination at the Multiple Sclerosis Meeting...

• Ncardia, a Germany - based drug discovery and stem cell technology company, raised 10.5 million euros ($ 12.4 million) in Series B funding.

Cynata Therapeutics Limited is an Australian clinical - stage stem cell and regenerative medicine company developing therapies based on its proprietary Cymerus ™ stem cell technology platform.

A study led by scientists at Monash University has shown that a new therapy developed through stem cell technology holds promise as a treatment for chronic asthma.

It would also have been nice to see a mention of direct reprogramming, the latest stem cell technology that may one day make even iPSCs obsolete.

To answer this question, the Srivastava team took skin cells from the family and reprogrammed them using stem cell technology into beating heart cells.

A team of researchers at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is the first in Africa to establish groundbreaking biomedical stem cell technology, which could hold the key to finding cures for some of Africa's most prevalent diseases.

In a study being published online today in the journal Cell, researchers in the laboratory of Gladstone Senior Investigator Benoit Bruneau, PhD, employed stem cell technology, next - generation DNA sequencing and computing tools to piece together the instruction manual, or «genomic blueprint» for how a heart becomes a heart.

His work, involving stem cell technology, will help drive forward efforts to understand and develop therapies for macular degeneration, one of the most significant causes of morbidity in the elderly.

The allocation of these relatively small revenues is of secondary importance to the greater objective of disseminating CIRM - funded stem cell technology quickly and widely.

Stem cell technology allows us to grow neurons from the skin cells of patients with serious neurological conditions, such as ALS, Parkinson's disease, and Huntington's disease.

This is clearly an emerging field that will be of importance to the pharmaceutical industry, which has been reserved in embracing human embryonic stem cell technology until now because of the ethical objections from the US, where many of them have their main base.

The Centre will develop and apply stem cell technology and targeted repair to broaden the range of therapeutic strategies in neurological disease.

Future therapies will have to be based on strategies that act by reducing or increasing the number or activity of specific subtypes of pre - and postsynaptic receptors, transporters, and ion channels, or other membrane molecules at the synapse, and by strategies that exploit the new possibilities offered by stem cell technology and targeted repair.

Research released today highlights advances in the use of CRISPR - Cas9 and human induced pluripotent stem cell technologies to identify novel therapeutic targets for neurological disorders such as schizophrenia and addiction.

Based on these advances in stem cell technology, Novocell has begun a development program to prepare its stem cell products for human clinical therapy.

Researchers have used cutting - edge stem cell technology to correct a genetic defect present in a rare blinding disorder, another step on a promising path that may one day lead to therapies to reverse blindness caused by common retinal diseases such as macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa which affect millions of individuals.

«The grants will allow UC to build the next generation of research infrastructure that will help continue our efforts to realize the enormous potential of stem cell technology.»

The secret behind The Body Shop's «Drops of Youth» range is stem cell technology from powerful plants like Alpine Edelweiss.

Before joining MAF, Yaron advanced the development and commercialization of innovative stem cell technologies, fundraised, and managed R&D teams at Accellta and AMIT in Israel.

Lexicon Genetics of Houston, Texas, for example, grew from the use of mouse embryonic stem cell technology to create mouse models of disease.

NYSCF Principal Investigator Dr. Valentina Fossati shared how stem cell technology has revolutionized multiple sclerosis research during the session on remyelination at the Multiple Sclerosis Meeting hosted by the ARSEP Foundation in Paris, France.

In an effort to save the species, scientists at the San Diego Zoo Global are developing stem cell technologies to create a new generation of northern white rhinos.

In a collaborative effort between the Gladstone laboratories of Benoit Bruneau, PhD, Katherine Pollard, PhD, and Dr. Srivastava, the scientists used stem cell technology to make large amounts of endothelial cells from patients with CAVD, comparing them to healthy cells and mapping their genetic and epigenetic changes as they developed into valve cells.

It will explain how to use stem cell technology, and make stumps grow, and cure evil 6 year olds of their Leukemias.

With the help of stem cell technology, we are learning to make tissues from scratch.

The trial is in collaboration with Asterias Biotherapeutics, a biotech company in Fremont, Calif., that devised the stem cell technology.

«The advent of induced pluripotent stem cell technology has created exciting new approaches to model neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases for the study of pathogenesis and for drug screening,» said David Pleasure, professor of neurology and pediatrics and a co-author of the study.

In turn, Parsaghian of Peregrine Pharmaceuticals predicts that antibody - based therapeutics — and diagnostics — will continue to be a growth area in cancer research, together with other protein - based biological agents and stem cell technology.

The study carried out at the University of Eastern Finland used the induced pluripotent stem cell technology, which enables the generation of pluripotent stem cells from human skin fibroblasts.

But now, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and Cedars - Sinai in Los Angeles have used the cells of AHDS patients to recreate not only the disease, but a mimic of the patient's blood - brain barrier in the laboratory dish using induced pluripotent stem cell technology.