by admin | Aug 31, 2023 | News & Opinions
By Jason Arunn Murugesu – NewScientist A technique for reprogramming adult cells that removes any trace of their origins could help produce stem cells at larger scales A new way to turn adult human cells into ultra-flexible stem cells could make it easier to...
by admin | Aug 30, 2023 | News & Opinions
by Fabio Bergamin – ETH Zurich Professor Ori Bar-Nur and his team grow muscle cells in the laboratory. In this case, they are mouse cells, but the researchers are also interested in human and cow cells. Promising applications resonate with both: human muscle...
by admin | Aug 29, 2023 | News & Opinions
by William A. Haseltine – Forbes At present, the only way to cure genetic blood disorders such as sickle cell anemia and thalassemia is to reset the immune system with a stem cell transplantation. Only a fraction of patients elects this procedure, as the process...
by admin | Aug 28, 2023 | News & Opinions
By Elizabeth Pennisi – Science When Vicki Losick got her Ph.D. and joined a fruit fly lab at the Carnegie Institution for Science in 2008, its head announced that he expected his postdocs to launch new fields of inquiry. She chose a then-fashionable focus: stem...
by admin | Aug 25, 2023 | News & Opinions
Researchers and policymakers often exist in different worlds and speak different languages. Here are three ways to bridge the divide. by Nature.com Science is a key driver of economic growth and social progress. If science can be accelerated — such as by increasing...
by admin | Aug 24, 2023 | News & Opinions
By Theresa Tamkins, Jessica Klingbaum and Kristen Dahlgren – NBC News Eye surgeons in the U.S. are inching closer to being able to use a specific type of stem cell transplant to fix a serious eye problem that can cause pain and permanent vision loss. It was the...
