Although British researchers had discovered embryonic
stem cells in laboratory animals in 1981, it wasn't until 1998 that a Wisconsin team announced it had isolated stem cells from human embryos for the first time.
To produce the cells, the Salk scientists developed a combination of chemical signals that directed human
stem cells in a laboratory dish to become spatially oriented.
Researchers have successfully created functional sperm cells from mouse
stem cells in the laboratory, then implanted those cells into rodents» egg cells to produce healthy, fertile offspring.
Prior to QB3, she studied mechanisms of self - renewal and survival in human embryonic
stem cells in the laboratory of Professor Douglas Melton, completing her PhD at Harvard University in 2012.
Not exact matches
Previously, Dr. Nikolic was an Assistant Professor
in Medicine at Harvard Medical School where he led an advanced immunology
laboratory for tolerance induction and
stem -
cell transplantation at Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School.
We wanted to understand what types of differences are always there, what is causing them, and what they mean,» says Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a professor
in Salk's Gene Expression
Laboratory and co-senior author, with Kelly Frazer of the University of California, San Diego, on the new paper, which was published
in Cell Stem Cell in April 2017.
Beginning
in the 1970s, physicians learned how to harvest skin
stem cells from a patient with extensive burn wounds, grow them
in the
laboratory, then apply the lab - grown tissue to close and protect a patient's wounds.
After deciphering this natural differentiation process, the investigators duplicated it
in the
laboratory dish by adding a sequence of proteins, called growth factors, to the fluid bathing the
stem cells.
Three of these themes represent the key scientific steps
in moving
stem cells from the
laboratory into the clinic — the bioengineering and biology of
stem cells, and the clinical applications of that research.
Adding
stem cells from human bone marrow to a broken diabetic bone enhances the repair process, increasing the strength of the newly formed bone, according to a
laboratory - based study presented at the European Congress of Endocrinology
in Dublin.
The researchers added human bone marrow
stem cells from a non-diabetic donor to a bone fracture
in laboratory pre-clinical studies.
According to Izpisúa Belmonte, who is also a professor at the gene expression
laboratories of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies
in San Diego, California, CMRB aims to become «a research centre of excellence
in south Europe
in the line of world - recognized institutions such as the Salk or the Whitehead institutes, where both pre - and postdoctoral researchers receive multidisciplinary training of the highest quality»
in stem cell biology and
cell regeneration.
Dr. Zubair, medical and scientific director of the
Cell Therapy
Laboratory at Mayo Clinic
in Florida, says the experiment will be the first one Mayo Clinic has conducted
in space and the first to use these human
stem cells, which are found
in bone marrow.
«It's taken years of trial and error, making educated guesses and taking baby steps to finally produce functioning human muscle from pluripotent
stem cells,» said Lingjun Rao, a postdoctoral researcher
in Bursac's
laboratory and first author of the study.
Of particular interest to
stem cell and regenerative medicine researchers, the finding may lead to
laboratory methods to create heart
cells that function more like those found
in adult hearts.
«I've been
in research for 30 years, and nothing has created more excitement than
stem cell research,» notes Richard Boyd, an immunologist and director of the Monash immunology and
stem cell laboratories in Australia.
These transgenic
stem cells also readily created intestinal tissues called «organoids»
in laboratory dishes.
They also plan to evolve the chemistry behind the materials so that it may be possible for gels to better mimic more complex cellular environments beyond the control of stiffness alone, as well as investigate how dynamic changes
in matrix properties — a hallmark of the
stem cell niche — can be mimicked
in the
laboratory.
The
laboratory process, described
in the journal Scientific Reports, entails genetically modifying a line of human embryonic
stem cells to become fluorescent upon their differentiation to retinal ganglion
cells, and then using that
cell line for development of new differentiation methods and characterization of the resulting
cells.
So Ke Cheng, Hu Zhang, Jinying Zhang and colleagues wanted to see whether placing
stem cells in inexpensive hydrogels with designed tiny pores that are made
in the
laboratory would work.
«These findings suggest that BLBC
cells have an innate ability to establish a local microenvironment that is supportive of cancer
stem cells,» explained Thiagalingam, associate professor
in Genetics & Genomics, Medicine, and Pathology &
Laboratory Medicine, at BUSM.
Research
in the
laboratory of Rebecca Wingert, the Gallagher Family Associate Professor of Adult
Stem Cell Research
in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, has confirmed the key role of a certain small molecule
in the development of kidney structures
in zebrafish, a widely used model for human kidneys.
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.
«We found that fibrinogen stops adult
stem cells from transforming into the mature
cells that produce myelin,» explained first author of the study Mark Petersen, MD, a visiting scientist
in Akassoglou's
laboratory and an assistant adjunct professor of pediatrics at UCSF.
A team from Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory in Long Island, N.Y., reports that it staved off full - blown metastasis
in mice by preventing mini-tumors
in the lungs from recruiting
stem cells called endothelial progenitors, which assemble into blood vessels to nourish the malignancy.
In a new study published in Science, the laboratory of Sebastian Jessberger, professor in the Brain Research Institute of the University of Zurich, has shown for the first time the process by which neural stem cells divide and newborn neurons integrate in the adult mouse hippocampu
In a new study published
in Science, the laboratory of Sebastian Jessberger, professor in the Brain Research Institute of the University of Zurich, has shown for the first time the process by which neural stem cells divide and newborn neurons integrate in the adult mouse hippocampu
in Science, the
laboratory of Sebastian Jessberger, professor
in the Brain Research Institute of the University of Zurich, has shown for the first time the process by which neural stem cells divide and newborn neurons integrate in the adult mouse hippocampu
in the Brain Research Institute of the University of Zurich, has shown for the first time the process by which neural
stem cells divide and newborn neurons integrate
in the adult mouse hippocampu
in the adult mouse hippocampus.
Researchers remove these mechanically and, with some luck, can nurture them into an embryonic
stem cell line that lives
in perpetuity
in the
laboratory.
Indeed, when fat
stem cells isolated from healthy obese individuals were exposed to interleukin - 6
in the
laboratory, they behaved like those obtained from individuals with risk of diabetes.»
Dieter Egli and Scott Noggle of the New York
Stem Cell Foundation
Laboratory in New York City and colleagues fused skin
cells with unfertilised human eggs.
Stem cells hold great promise for transforming medical care related to a diverse range of conditions, but the
cells often lose some of their therapeutic potential when scientists try to grow and expand them
in the
laboratory.
Reporting their
laboratory findings
in the journal Aging, the team observed that addition of DPI to a mixed population of
cells eliminated the tumour initiating cancer
stem cells.
«This lets us keep age - related signatures
in the
cells so that we can more easily study the effects of aging on the brain,» says Rusty Gage, a professor
in the Salk Institute's
Laboratory of Genetics and senior author of the paper, published October 8, 2015
in Cell Stem Cell.
In the monkey, when we tried injecting 20 or 30
laboratory - cultured pluripotent
stem cells, nothing happened.
In particular, opponents of embryonic stem cell research have repeatedly pointed to the supposed power of stem cells extracted from the adult body, which in the hands of at least one laboratory seemed to nearly match that of embryonic stem cell
In particular, opponents of embryonic
stem cell research have repeatedly pointed to the supposed power of
stem cells extracted from the adult body, which
in the hands of at least one laboratory seemed to nearly match that of embryonic stem cell
in the hands of at least one
laboratory seemed to nearly match that of embryonic
stem cells.
«The results were remarkable, with significant shrinkage
in patient - derived tumors,» said Memarzadeh, who also is an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and the director of the G.O. Discovery
Laboratory at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and
Stem Cell Research and associate professor.
The world's first chimeric monkeys were created
in a
laboratory last year, and they offer surprising new insights into embryonic
stem cell therapy: One reason for often - poor treatment outcomes may be that we're using embryos that are, strangely, just too old.
Previous studies have demonstrated that particular
cell types, such as those that constitute the retina or cornea, can be created
in the
laboratory from pluripotent
stem cells.
Mature embryonic
stem cells cultivated
in the
laboratory can, under the right conditions, be backed up
in their development to the more immature
stem cell type.
The iPSCs were then reprogrammed to become neurons
in collaboration with the
laboratory of Larry Goldstein, PhD, director of the UC San Diego Sanford
Stem Cell Clinical Center.
Further testing
in the
laboratory dish showed that hematopoietic
stem cells from the sleep - deprived mice responded less strongly than their peers to naturally occurring chemical signals that trigger cellular migration.
The antibiotic, Doxycycline, followed by doses of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), were surprisingly effective
in killing the cancer
stem cells under
laboratory conditions, according to the research published
in the journal Oncotarget.
Salk scientists and colleagues have proposed new molecular criteria for judging just how close any line of
laboratory - generated
stem cells comes to mimicking embryonic
cells seen
in the very earliest stages of human development, known as naïve
stem cells.
«For example, there is a huge amount of interest and excitement globally
in growing cerebral organoids» — miniature brain - like organs that can be studied
in laboratory experiments — «from
stem cells to model human brain development and disease mechanisms.
On
laboratory dishes, these
stem cells were found to be havens for viral reproduction, resulting
in cell death and / or disruption of
cell growth.
Although the research was done
in laboratory mice, the findings have possible implications for human
stem cell transplants.
In the study, USC Stem Cell researcher Casey Brewer and colleagues in the laboratory of Rong Lu found that transplantation dose affects the behavior of blood - forming stem cells in bone marrow — called hematopoietic stem cells, or HSC
In the study, USC
Stem Cell researcher Casey Brewer and colleagues in the laboratory of Rong Lu found that transplantation dose affects the behavior of blood - forming stem cells in bone marrow — called hematopoietic stem cells, or H
Stem Cell researcher Casey Brewer and colleagues
in the laboratory of Rong Lu found that transplantation dose affects the behavior of blood - forming stem cells in bone marrow — called hematopoietic stem cells, or HSC
in the
laboratory of Rong Lu found that transplantation dose affects the behavior of blood - forming
stem cells in bone marrow — called hematopoietic stem cells, or H
stem cells in bone marrow — called hematopoietic stem cells, or HSC
in bone marrow — called hematopoietic
stem cells, or H
stem cells, or HSCs.
One of the greatest achievements
in recent biomedical research was
in 2006 when Shinya Yamanaka managed to create embryonic
stem cells (pluripotent
stem cells, induced
in vitro, or
in vitro iPSCs)
in a
laboratory from adult
cells, via a cocktail of just four genes.
Stem cells obtained
in mice also show totipotent characteristics never generated
in a
laboratory, equivalent to those present
in human embryos at the 72 - hour stage of development, when they are composed of just 16
cells.
She thinks that data from embryos cultured for nearly two weeks
in the
laboratory will provide more useful information than Egli's
stem cell studies.
After introducing
stem cells in brain tissue
in the
laboratory and seeing promising results, Prof. Offen leveraged the study to mice with Alzheimer's disease - like symptoms.