Beyond the Dish

[...] The transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells or MSCs as they as affectionately known, does indeed benefit patients who have had a [...]

[...] Mesenchymal stem cells from umbilical cord have the ability to differentiate into cartilage cells, fat cells, [...]

[...] If a clinician isolates mesenchymal stem cells from the fat, bone marrow, or muscles of a patient, how can they tell if these cells will [...]

[...] science and medicine. In particular, a SMART team has devised a new technique to identify mesenchymal stem cells from bone marrow cells on the basis of cell size, cell stiffness, and […] [...]

[...] After a heart attack, the heart is a very inhospitable place for implanted stem cells. These cells have to deal [...]

[...] in Holland have examined the use of growth factors to induce healing in the heart after a heart attack. Because simply applying growth factors to the heart will cause them to simply be washed out, [...]

[...] A Serbian heart patient named Miroslav Dlacic suffered from a heart attack, and this event thoroughly changed his life. His heart was so damaged that he was too tired to [...]

[...] the studies that have examined the effects of stem cell transplantation into the heart after a heart attack have only examined the effects of these cells for 4-6 weeks. There are very few long-term [...]

[...] Embryonic stem cells are derived from human embryos, can only grow in culture indefinitely, and have the [...]

[...] Induced pluripotent stem cells or iPSCs have many of the same characteristics as embryonic stem cells. One such feature is the ability to be grown in culture and manipulated like genuine [...]

[...] When heart muscle cells are made from embryonic stem cells, they integrate into the heart and form proper connections with other heart muscle cells. [...]

[...] Because several laboratories have managed to differentiate embryonic stem cells into cells that look very much like human eggs and sperm, many have predicted that [...]

[...] peptide that circulates throughout the bloodstream and eventually finds its way to the bone marrow where it summons bone marrow-based stem cells to the sight of injury for tissue repair [...]

[...] If something lodges in the blood vessels that feed the brain – say a blood clot, piece of bone marrow after a bone has been broken, or tissue debris from damaged tissue – the brain undergoes [...]

[...] If a clinician isolates mesenchymal stem cells from the fat, bone marrow, or muscles of a patient, how can they tell if these cells will be effective? Short answer – [...]

[...] Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine have hit upon a new strategy for tissue healing: mobilizing the body’s stem cells to the [...]

[...] , for what it’s worth, we will probably see direct reprogramming take a prominent place in regenerative medicine in the future. It will not be in the near future, but as direct reprogramming becomes [...]

[...] The biotech company Novastem is a leader in regenerative medicine and has announced the treatment of its first patient in its clinical study for ischemic [...]

Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is a Harvard University-affiliated institution with a robust research program. In particular, several BWH are int [...]

[...] Louis University have discovered a way to prevent the onset of Type I diabetes mellitus in diabetic mice. This strategy involves inhibiting the autoimmune processes that result in the destruction of [...]

[...] a protocol that can create insulin-producing cells that help normalize blood-sugar levels in diabetic mice from skin cells. This discovery represents one of the first steps toward developing patient- [...]