Doctors Grow Parkinsonian Human Brain Cells In Vitro, Shedding Light on the...
For the first time, Parkinson’s researchers have made human brain cells derived from the skin cells of patients who carry a mutated gene related to Parkinson’s disease. This means researchers can now...
View ArticleScientists Turn Adult Red Blood Cells Into Embryonic Stem Cells
Despite the ethical and political differences they incite, stem cells are still a miraculous medicine, potentially able to change into whatever a sick body needs them to be. The only way to get them,...
View ArticleBreakthrough: Researchers create an animal entirely from stem cells
Biotechnology is getting into some pretty interesting territory these days. The latest breakthrough comes from Kyoto University where research scientists have, for the first time, created a mouse by...
View ArticleTED TALKS – Nina Tandon: Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?
Each of our bodies is utterly unique, which is a lovely thought until it comes to treating an illness — when every body reacts differently, often unpredictably, to standard treatment. Tissue engineer...
View ArticleCells Grown By Japanese Researchers Kills Cancer
In a promising start to a brand new year, researchers at the University of Tokyo and the Riken Research Centre for Allergy and Immunology may have found a possible cure for some of the worst diseases...
View ArticleScientists Implant Monkeys’ Cells Back Into Their Own Brains
The research is a step along the way to personalized stem cell therapies. Scientists have taken cells from rhesus monkeys’ skin, turned them into neural cells, then implanted them successfully into the...
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