Tag: pluripotent stem cells

  • Nation & World

    Looking to retain most potent regenerative stem cells

    Early on human bodies are full of pluripotent stem cells, capable of generating any other type of cell. The problem is we lose them at birth.

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    Harvard researcher Mansi Srivastava.
  • Nation & World

    Closing in on a breakthrough

    New findings from the lab of Harvard Medical School Dean George Daley suggest a path for creating immune-matched blood cells, derived from patients’ own cells, for treatment purposes.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Safer stem cells for therapy

    When stem cell researchers in Japan and the United States announced in 2007 that they had developed long-sought methods to return fully developed adult human cells to an embryonic-like state, the world of stem cell research was turned upside down.

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  • Nation & World

    Neurons created from skin cells of elderly patients with ALS

    Less than 27 months after announcing that he had institutional permission to attempt the creation of patient- and disease-specific stem cell lines, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) principal faculty member Kevin Eggan proclaimed the effort a success — though politically imposed restrictions and scientific advances prompted him to use a different technique than originally planned.

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  • Nation & World

    Daley and colleagues create 20 disease-specific stem cell lines

    Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researcher George Q. Daley, associate director of the Stem Cell Program at Children’s Hospital Boston, has with HSCI colleagues Chad Cowan and Konrad Hochedlinger of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) produced a robust new collection of disease-specific stem cell lines, all of which were developed using the new induced pluripotent stem…

    4 minutes