For six years, Professor Christopher Vakoc's lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has been on a mission to transform sarcoma cells into regularly functioning tissue cells. Sarcomas are cancers that ...
When bones break and there is extreme tissue loss—such as after a car accident or a battlefield injury—current treatments don't often lead to effective healing. But certain stem cells from skeletal ...
D olly put Scotland on the biotechnology map 10 years ago. Today, Scotland is famous for developing a stem cell industry with global potential, thanks to a combination of scientific expertise, ...
Cell and gene therapy (CGT) has evolved from a niche research pursuit into a central force in biopharmaceutical innovation. By engineering living cells and genetic material to repair or replace faulty ...
A new treatment may be in sight for stroke patients after scientists successfully reprogrammed immune cells to replace damaged brain cells and restore brain function after stroke-like injury. Every ...
Researchers at University of California San Diego have found that the most common form of liver cancer - one with a high mortality rate - can be better targeted and treated using an innovative new ...
Manipulating stem cells is one of the hardest tasks one might choose to do in a laboratory. First, they are very hard to come by, second, they tend to die if not stimulated to grow, and third, like ...
A research team led by Professor June M. Kwak from the Department of New Biology at DGIST (President Kunwoo Lee), in collaboration with Professor Jong Kyoung Kim’s team at POSTECH, has uncovered the ...