Bioengineered muscle fibers help regrow damaged tissue
Skeletal muscle under microscope. Image credit: Shutterstock https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/bioengineered-muscle-fibers-help-regrow-damaged-tissue/
Current advances in stem cell-based therapies for hair regeneration
Living bioink could enhance bone repair and regeneration
Immersing GelMA hydrogels with and without nanoparticles in simulated body fluid for three days reveals how the nanoparticles induce mineralization. (A, F) SEM micrographs (scale bar: 100 µm)…more (Courtesy: Biofabrication […]
Researchers invent new gene-editing tool
A double stranded DNA fragment. Credit: Vcpmartin/Wikimedia/ CC BY-SA 4.0 https://phys.org/news/2021-02-gene-editing-tool.html
Khosla Ventures helps seed a next-gen regenerative medicines startup boasting AI-based stem cell culturing technology
(From left to right) Cellino co-founders Marinna Madrid, Nabiha Saklayen, and Matthias Wagner https://endpts.com/khosla-ventures-helps-seed-a-next-gen-regenerative-medicines-startup-boasting-ai-based-stem-cell-culturing-technology/
Tissue regeneration: Reserve or reverse?
A cross section of mouse small intestine, showing intestinal crypts and villi, is visualized with immunofluorescence microscopy (nuclei in red, and F-actin, which marks the cytoskeleton, in blue)…more PHOTO: FLORIJN […]
Evidence that Earth’s first cells could have made specialized compartments
“Protocells” containing bubble-like compartments formed spontaneously on a mineral-like and encapsulated fluorescent dye. This could have been what happened 3.8 billion years ago when cells first began to form. Credit: […]
Army Prepared to Sacrifice Unit Readiness to Defeat COVID-19, McConville Says
U.S. Army Soldiers and a FEMA employee work together at a mass vaccination site at California State University, Los Angeles, Feb. 15, 2021. (U.S. Army National Guard/Spc. Simone Lara) https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/02/17/army-prepared-sacrifice-unit-readiness-defeat-covid-19-mcconville-says.html?ESRC=eb_210218.nl
Scientists Repair Injured Spinal Cord Using Patients’ Own Stem Cells
The patients had sustained, non-penetrating spinal cord injuries, in many cases from falls or minor trauma, several weeks prior to implantation of the stem cells. Credit: Yale https://neurosciencenews.com/sci-stem-cell-repair-17845/
Locals protest over genetically modified mosquito plan in Florida Keys
Researchers invent new gene-editing tool
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain https://phys.org/news/2021-02-gene-editing-tool.html
Family sees improvement with stem cell treatments for Greensboro girl with amnesia – ‘Caitlin Can’t Remember’ episode 25
by: Bob Buckley Posted: Feb 23, 2021 / 07:00 PM EST / Updated: Feb 23, 2021 / 07:00 PM EST https://myfox8.com/buckley-report/family-sees-improvement-with-stem-cell-treatments-for-greensboro-girl-with-amnesia-caitlin-cant-remember-episode-25/
Human reproductive cloning: The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Seven-month-old Dolly poses for photographs in 1997 at the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute, where she was cloned and raised. PAUL CLEMENTS/AP https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/21/human-reproductive-cloning-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time/
What’s luck got to do with it?
5 times HIV was ‘cured’
Why stem cells could be the medical innovation of the century
A colony of embryonic stem cells https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/how-will-stem-cells-impact-the-future-of-medicine/
Scientists Show MRI Predicts the Efficacy of a Stem Cell Therapy for Brain Injury
How a Longevity Gene Protects Brain Stem Cells From Stress
Meet Elizabeth Ann the ferret: The first endangered American animal to be cloned
Meet Elizabeth Ann the ferret: The first endangered American animal to be cloned https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/19/us/elizabeth-ann-ferret-cloned-scli-intl-scn/index.html
Unlocking the mystery behind skeletal aging
Epigenetic factors like the enzyme KDM4B play a major role in the aging-related bone loss that leads to brittle bones and fractures, researchers say. https://www.uclahealth.org/unlocking-the-mystery-behind-skeletal-aging
Why Commonly Used Local Anesthetics Are Dangerous to Stem Cells
Military scientists are looking to salamanders to help regrow limbs on wounded troops
Scientists Found a Way to Communicate With People Who Are Asleep And Dreaming
A participant asleep in the lab, with brain and eye signals on the right. (K. Konkoly) https://www.sciencealert.com/people-can-answer-questions-and-even-do-math-problems-when-asleep-study-shows
Production and cryopreservation of definitive endoderm from human pluripotent stem cells under defined and scalable culture conditions
Fact-check: F grade for irresponsible stem cell COVID-19 cure piece
Vitro Biopharma and their stem cells for COVID-19 approach gets promotional type news coverage from Fox31, which implied a COVID cure. Screenshot of Fox31 video. https://ipscell.com/2021/02/fact-check-f-grade-for-irresponsible-stem-cell-covid-19-cure-piece/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fact-check-f-grade-for-irresponsible-stem-cell-covid-19-cure-piece
Does the body replace itself every 7 years?
Bluebird Bio sickle cell gene therapy trial halted on cancer worry
How a Single Gene Alteration May Have Separated Modern Humans from Predecessors
Neanderthal-ized brain organoids (left) look very different than modern human brain organoids (right) — they have a distinctly different shape, and differ in the way their cells proliferate and how […]
Functional hair follicle regeneration: an updated review
Regen Med Has a Medical Education Risk Problem
Stem Cell Therapies Show Promise, But Challenges and Risks Remain
Scientists use stem cells to create Neanderthal-like “mini-brain”
Alysson R. Muotri, Ph.D. https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2021/02/12/scientists-use-stem-cells-to-create-neanderthal-like-mini-brain/
‘High Steaks’ As Israeli Startup Prints World’s First Ribeye
‘Minibrains’ With A Neanderthal Gene Offer Hints About Human Evolution
University of California, San Diego scientist Alysson Muotri’s lab grew brain organoids from human stem cells that swapped a developmental gene from Neanderthals for the human version. Muotri Lab/UC San […]
Wake-up call for neural stem cells
New neuromorphic “brain-on-a-chip” device could lead to portable AI devices
Image courtesy of the researchers https://innovationtoronto.com/2020/06/new-neuromorphic-brain-on-a-chip-device-could-lead-to-portable-ai-devices/
The trillion dollar upside to longevity
The Dark Side of CRISPR
Credit: Getty Images https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-dark-side-of-crispr/
‘Industrializing the production of cells’: Another iPSC player joins the quest for off-the-shelf cell therapies
CEO David Main (Notch) https://endpts.com/industrializing-the-production-of-cells-another-ipsc-player-joins-the-quest-for-off-the-shelf-cell-therapies/
