A University of Alberta team has developed a new step to improve the process for creating insulin-producing pancreatic cells from a patient's own stem cells, bringing the prospect of injection-free treatment closer for people ...
Nov 6, 2023
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Researchers have identified 38 businesses engaged in direct-to-consumer marketing of purported stem cell treatments and exosome therapies for preventing and treating COVID-19 even though these "interventions" have not been ...
Oct 26, 2023
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A joint effort by a team of academic and industrial researchers led by Associate Professor Yoshinori Yoshida (Department of Cell Growth and Differentiation) created a new modeling system, combining mechanical stretching and ...
Oct 18, 2023
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A biobank for all, in which a person from any background could find a bone marrow donor for a stem cell transplant, is a major goal for stem cell science. While repositories of cell lines that could be a match for most patients ...
Sep 28, 2023
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Recommendations from the Standards for Human Stem Cell Use in Research, published in June 2023 by the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), include a publishing "checklist" that is now being used by laboratory ...
Sep 14, 2023
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Chemotherapy is one of the main therapeutic modalities for cancer patients. Chemotherapeutic drugs destroy cancer cells in the body, but patients frequently face side effects since the drugs do not selectively target cancer ...
Aug 31, 2023
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a muscle degeneration disorder caused by mutations affecting the dystrophin gene. On August 24 in the journal Stem Cell Reports, researchers show how a dual CRISPR RNA method restored ...
Aug 24, 2023
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Assistant Professor Shunsuke Funakoshi, Associate Professor Yoshinori Yoshida, and their research team have identified Am80 as a molecule that activates the cell cycle in cardiomyocytes to enhance cardiac tissue graft production ...
Jul 14, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) mainly affects the older population. Recent research found early disease signs in cell culture models of early human brain development, raising the possibility that the disease has its origins much ...
Jun 22, 2023
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Researchers have used heart and lung stem cells infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 to better understand how the disease impacts different organs, paving the way for more targeted treatments.
Jun 13, 2023
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