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Human stem-cell-derived beta cells that have formed islet-like clusters in a mouse. Cells were transplanted to the kidney capsule and photographed 2 weeks later, by which time the beta cells were making insulin and had cured the diabetes in the mouse.

First area cell transplantation center

Expansive effort by Harvard affiliates will seek a cure for diabetes

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DateJune 16, 2016

Harvard researchers have successfully converted mouse and human skin cells into pain-sensing neurons. The neurons respond to a number of stimuli that cause acute and inflammatory distress.

Creating pain-sensing neurons

Stem cell researchers manage to formulate them out of skin cells

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DateNovember 24, 2014July 26, 2019

The series of images shows how inserting modified RNA into diseased cells causes the cells to produce functioning versions of the TAZ protein (from left, green), which correctly localize in the mitochondria (red). When the images are merged to demonstrate this localization, green overlaps with red, giving the third image a yellow color around its edges.

‘Heart disease-on-a-chip’

Stem cell research helps cross-Harvard collaborators mine prospects for personalized medicine

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DateMay 11, 2014April 30, 2019

In 2008, Harvard Stem Cell Institute principal faculty member Kevin Eggan first raised the possibility of using ALS patient-derived stem cells to better understand the disease and identify therapeutic targets for new drugs. Based on those findings, Eggan and other Harvard stem cell scientists have discovered that a newly approved medication for epilepsy may offer meaningful treatment for ALS.

New hope for treating ALS

Patient stem cells help identify common problem, leading to clinical trials

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DateApril 3, 2014March 13, 2019

Harvard stem cell scientists Tracy Young-Pearse (left) and Christina Muratore have converted skins cells from patients with early onset Alzheimer's into the types of neurons affected by the disease, making it possible to study Alzheimer's in living human cells.

Alzheimer’s in a dish

Stem cells from patients offer model and drug-discovery platform for early onset form of disease

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DateMarch 4, 2014April 23, 2019