His team is using innovative cell culture models to advance
our understanding of brain stem cells and their potential role in glioblastoma.
Not exact matches
Balls
of brain tissue generated from
stem cells are enabling us to
understand the underlying differences between people who struggle to be sociable and those who have difficulty reining themselves in.
Our investigations also open a new route for
understanding how different physiological states
of the body influence
stem cells in the
brain during health and disease, and opens new ways for thinking about therapy,» says Fiona Doetsch.
But as
of now we are only just beginning to
understand the molecular constituents and the true meaning
of the barrier for
stem cell division in the
brain.»
«We expect to use this approach to help us better
understand how the complexity
of the human cortex arises from
cells that are spun off through
cell division from
stem cells in the germinal region
of the
brain.»
Currently, her research interest is focused on the functional characterization
of cell - autonomous molecular determinants, known to control cardinal
stem cell properties in normal NSCs, in the attempt
of understanding their putative role in regulating the same properties in
brain tumor - derived cancer
stem cells.
Kirsten Obernier, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in Alvarez - Buylla's lab, spent six years trying to
understand how the
brain avoids running out
of neural
stem cells by catching the
cells in the act
of dividing.
Researchers are using
stem cells to help them understand normal development of brain tissue and what goes wrong in MS. Stem cells are also enormously useful for testing new drugs and treatments and for learning more about the body's natural repair mechani
stem cells to help them
understand normal development
of brain tissue and what goes wrong in MS.
Stem cells are also enormously useful for testing new drugs and treatments and for learning more about the body's natural repair mechani
Stem cells are also enormously useful for testing new drugs and treatments and for learning more about the body's natural repair mechanisms.
By presenting a safe and effective delivery method
of genetically modified hematopoetic
stem cells, the study has improved our
understanding of ALD and the cross-talk between the
brain and the hematopoetic system.