Stem Cells News

June 15, 2024

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Scientists Identify 'Missing Piece' Required for Blood Stem Cell Self-Renewal

June 5, 2024 — Blood stem cells -- key to transplants that are used as life-saving treatments for blood cancers and blood and immune disorders -- have the capacity to self-renew, but quickly lose their ability to ...

Stem Cells Shed New Light on How the Human Embryo Forms

May 31, 2024 — A new study using stem cell-based models has shed new light on how the human embryo begins to develop, which could one day benefit the development of fertility ...

Tackling the Hurdle of Tumor Formation in Stem Cell Therapies

May 31, 2024 — Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs), which can virtually form any cell type, have great potential in the field of regenerative medicine. However, the growth of tumors after PSC transplantation remains to be an unresolved issue. Now, through extensive ...

Identifying the Initial Steps in Colorectal Cancer Formation

May 29, 2024 — Research provides new evidence that most colorectal cancers begin with the loss of intestinal stem cells, even before cancer-causing genetic alterations appear. The results overturn the prevailing theory for colorectal tumor initiation and suggest ...

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Chromatin Openness Sheds New Light on Prostate Cancer Plasticity

June 3, 2024 — A recent study suggests that the SIX2 protein may be a possible factor underlying increased plasticity of prostate cancer cells and treatment ...

Understanding a Broken Heart

May 24, 2024 — The stress of heart failure is remembered by the body and appears to lead to recurrent failure, along with other related health issues, according to new research. Researchers have found that heart ...

Gentler Cell Therapies for Blood Cancer

May 22, 2024 — Researchers have developed an approach to 'deleting' a blood system affected by leukemia while simultaneously building up a new, healthy system with donor blood stem cells. The team reports on the ...

Distinct Population of 'Troublemaker' Platelet Cells Appear With Aging, Lead to Blood Clotting, Disease

May 14, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a distinct, secondary population of platelets that appears with aging and have hyperreactive behavior and unique ...

Innovative 'Mini-Brains' Could Revolutionize Alzheimer's Treatment

May 14, 2024 — New research could revolutionize the way Alzheimer's and other brain-related diseases are diagnosed and treated -- by building tiny brains in a petri ...

ERR-Gamma 'Trains' Stomach Stem Cells to Become Acid-Producing Cells

May 10, 2024 — Researchers have identified molecular and genetic pathways that direct the generation and maturation of parietal cells, the only cells in the body that produce acid, from stem cells. The findings can ...

Stem Cells: A New Mechanical Transducer

May 10, 2024 — Scientists reveal how ETV4 controls stem cell differentiation in response to mechanical ...

How Biological Aging Clocks Tick

May 9, 2024 — Aging clocks can measure the biological age of humans with high precision. Biological age can be influenced by environmental factors such as smoking or diet, thus deviating from the chronological age ...

New and Improved Way to Grow the Cells That Give Rise to the Kidney's Filtration System

Apr. 30, 2024 — Scientists report significant progress in cultivating nephron progenitor cells (NPCs), the cells destined to form the kidney's filtration system, the ...

Researchers Target Neurogenesis in New Approach to Treat Parkinson's Disease

Apr. 30, 2024 — Researchers have found a way to better control the preclinical generation of key neurons depleted in Parkinson's disease, pointing toward a new ...

How the Cell Cycle Orchestra Plays an Unexpected New Tune

June 6, 2024 — The awe-inspiring process of cell division can turn a fertilized egg into a baby -- or a cancerous cell into a malignant tumor. With so much at stake, nature keeps it tightly controlled in a process ...

Pressure in the Womb May Influence Facial Development

Apr. 22, 2024 — Physical cues in the womb, and not just genetics, influence the normal development of neural crest cells, the embryonic stem cells that form facial features, finds a new ...

Cells Putting on a Face

Apr. 11, 2024 — Neural crest cells -- embryonic pluripotent cells within the facial primordium -- may be necessary for forming proper animal facial structures. Researchers have produced neural crest cell-rich ...

New Way to Generate Human Cartilage

Apr. 10, 2024 — University of Montana researchers and their partners have found a new method to generate human cartilage of the head and ...

An Hereditary Liver Disease Cured With the Help of Gene Scissors

Apr. 4, 2024 — Researchers have succeeded in correcting a gene defect that causes a hereditary liver disease and its adverse effects on ...

Organoids Reveal How to Protect the Brain Against Dementia and ALS Following Traumatic Injury, According to Study

Apr. 4, 2024 — A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can quadruple your risk for developing dementia and increase your chances of developing neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS. In a new study scientists use lab-grown ...

Familial Alzheimer's Disease Transferred Via Bone Marrow Transplant in Mice

Mar. 28, 2024 — Familial Alzheimer's disease can be transferred via bone marrow transplant, researchers show. When the team transplanted bone marrow stem cells from mice carrying a hereditary version of ...

New Tool Provides Researchers With Improved Understanding of Stem Cell Aging in the Brain

Mar. 27, 2024 — Researchers can use the light naturally thrown off by biological specimens to better study the different states of stem cells in the nervous system, thanks to a tool brightening their chances for ...

Two Keys Needed to Crack Three Locks for Better Engineered Blood Vessels

Mar. 21, 2024 — Biomedical researchers discovered two proteins that differentiate stem cells into the components of blood vessels. This finding has implications for drug testing and other clinical ...

Vitamin A May Play a Central Role in Stem Cell Biology and Wound Repair

Mar. 7, 2024 — Retinoic acid, the active state of Vitamin A, appears to regulate how stem cells enter and exit a transient state central to their role in wound ...

Degree of Cell Crowding in the Early Human Embryo Influences Cell Identity Decision, New Culture System Finds

Mar. 4, 2024 — Collaborative work has developed a cell culture system that differentiates human pluripotent stem cells to amniotic ectoderm and surface ectoderm based on cell ...

Researchers Identify Enzyme Key to Training Cells to Fight Autoimmune Disorders

Feb. 27, 2024 — Researchers recently released a first-of-its-kind study that focuses on the rare autoimmune disorder aplastic anemia to understand how a subset of cells might be trained to correct the overzealous ...

Human Stem Cells Coaxed to Mimic the Very Early Central Nervous System

Feb. 26, 2024 — The first stem cell culture method that produces a full model of the early stages of the human central nervous system has been developed by a team of engineers and ...

Nutrients Direct Intestinal Stem Cell Function and Affect Aging

Feb. 12, 2024 — The capacity of intestinal stem cells to maintain cellular balance in the gut decreases upon aging. Researchers have discovered a new mechanism of action between the nutrient adaptation of intestinal ...

Artificial Cartilage With the Help of 3D Printing

Feb. 12, 2024 — Growing cartilage tissue in the lab could help patiens with injuries, but it is very hard to make the tissue grow in exactly the right shape. A new approach could solve this problem: Tiny spherical ...

From Growing Roots, Clues to How Stem Cells Decide Their Fate

Feb. 9, 2024 — Researchers have captured time-lapse videos of stem cells dividing in growing plant roots. By watching how the cells divide in response to certain chemical signals over time, the team is uncovering ...

Scientists Develop a Low-Cost Device to Make Cell Therapy Safer

Feb. 7, 2024 — A tiny microfluidic device can improve cell therapy techniques for spinal cord injury patients. The device can remove a large percentage of stem cells that have not yet fully become spinal cord ...

Scientists Uncover a Crucial Link Between Cholesterol Synthesis and Cancer Progression

Feb. 2, 2024 — A study has found an important connection between cancer, stem cells and the building blocks of cholesterol. Specifically, the research reveals how the enzyme FAXDC2 influences cancer cell growth and ...

Researchers Hack Neurons' Internal Clocks to Accelerate the Study of Neurological Diseases

Jan. 31, 2024 — New research has uncovered a way to 'hack' neurons' internal clocks to speed up their development. The approach promises to accelerate research into neurological ...

How Gene Activity Modulates the Amount of Immune Cell Production in Mice

Jan. 26, 2024 — Researchers describe how specific gene activity could potentially enhance immune cell production. The researchers wanted to understand the mechanism of why some hematopoietic stem cells produce more ...