Category Archives: Stem Cell Research

Professor Tessa Holyoake on stem cell research Professor Tessa Holyoake discusses how the Paul O'Gorman Leukaemia Research Centre focuses on the treatment of cancerous stem cells. Professor Tessa Holyoake... By: Children with Cancer UK … Continue reading →

The Future Of Stem Cell Research The Future Of Stem Cell Research - created at http://animoto.com. By: katielynn773 … Continue reading →

Stem Cell Research Documentary This was a project I did for a C-SPAN competition my sophomore year of high school. It won an honorable mention. By: Claire Lawson … Continue reading →

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 23-Apr-2014 Contact: Nicanor Moldovan Moldovan.6@osu.edu 614-247-7801 Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio New research suggests that attempts to isolate an elusive adult stem cell from blood to understand and potentially improve cardiovascular health a task considered possible but very difficult might not be necessary. Instead, scientists have found that multiple types of cells with primitive characteristics circulating in the blood appear to provide the same benefits expected from a stem cell, including the endothelial progenitor cell that is the subject of hot pursuit. "There are people who still dream that the prototypical progenitors for several components of the cardiovascular tree will be found and isolated. I decided to focus the analysis on the whole nonpurified cell population the blood as it is," said Nicanor Moldovan, senior author of the study and a research associate professor of cardiovascular medicine at The Ohio State University. "Our method determines the contributions of all blood cells that serve the same function that an endothelial progenitor cell is supposed to. We can detect the presence of those cells and their signatures in a clinical sample without the need to isolate them." The study is published in the journal PLOS ONE. Stem cells, including … Continue reading →

Released: 4/21/2014 8:55 AM EDT Embargo expired: 4/23/2014 5:00 PM EDT Source Newsroom: Ohio State University Contact Information Available for logged-in reporters only Newswise COLUMBUS, Ohio New research suggests that attempts to isolate an elusive adult stem cell from blood to understand and potentially improve cardiovascular health a task considered possible but very difficult might not be necessary. Instead, scientists have found that multiple types of cells with primitive characteristics circulating in the blood appear to provide the same benefits expected from a stem cell, including the endothelial progenitor cell that is the subject of hot pursuit. There are people who still dream that the prototypical progenitors for several components of the cardiovascular tree will be found and isolated. I decided to focus the analysis on the whole nonpurified cell population the blood as it is, said Nicanor Moldovan, senior author of the study and a research associate professor of cardiovascular medicine at The Ohio State University. Our method determines the contributions of all blood cells that serve the same function that an endothelial progenitor cell is supposed to. We can detect the presence of those cells and their signatures in a clinical sample without the need to isolate them. … Continue reading →

Stem-cell research has always been looked at as either a path towards human cloning or a way to potentially re-create human tissue and now it appears the latter is finally starting to see some progress. Researchers, according to The Washington Post, have found a way to make adult stem-cells grow into tissue with some urging by scientists. This means that people suffering from diabetes could possibly have insulin-producing cells, made by scientists. People with macular degeneration would never go blind and entire organs could possibly be matched to patients in order to replace diseased ones. According to Nature World News, the research is approaching human trials as far as treating blindness with stem-cells. So far the results have been extremely encouraging. One patient, who had been judged legally blind, gained full eyesight again. This is done with three drops of retinal pigment epithelium cells underneath the retina, which is detached for the procedure. Though stem-cell research controversy seemed to be so last decade as people worried about cloning, scientists are certainly stirring up some controversy with new treatment, but may also change many lives. See the article here: Stem-cell research shows promise in restoring sight … Continue reading →

A quality sword requires toughness on the inside and hardness on the outside. That way it can keep a sharp edge yet bend instead of shatter. Getting these properties requires blanking the metal back to a virgin state, adding the right molecular alloying ingredients, and then controlling the rate of the natural processes that occur as its final structure crystallizes out. Using that general method, researchers have just succeeded in returning adult somatic (body) cells to a virgin stem cell state which can then be made into nearly any tissue. The key word here is adult. Last year, researchers from Oregon perfected a process to therapeutically clone human embryos. Basically that means producing cells that are genetically identical to a donor for the purpose of treating disease. We described the critical details of the technique, known as somatic-cell nuclear transfer, in an earlier post. In a nutshell, the nucleus from the cell to be cloned is fused with an egg that has its own nucleus removed. Caffeine is used to stall various autonomous developmental programs during a fusion process that has been initiated with an electric pulse. The new hybrid cell that results has full stem cell character which can … Continue reading →

Ovarian Cancer Stem Cell Research by Dr. Susan Murphy at Duke University Images sources: cancer.osu.edu ovarian-cancer-facts.com ovca.org dr.mulier.com geekymedics.com murphylab.com. By: Bianca Lupan … Continue reading →

Stem Cell Research Ethics Ethics and Contemporary Life. By: Brian Nguyen … Continue reading →

April 18, 2014 Brett Smith for redOrbit.com Your Universe Online In a significant breakthrough a team of scientists from California and Seoul, South Korea have been able to create viable stem cells from an adult donor that perfectly match the donors DNA, according to a new report in the journal Cell Stem Cell. The development, referred to as therapeutic cloning, involves the production of embryonic cells for scientific purposes and many object to this type of research based on moral or religious grounds. Debate over this type of work was stoked in 1997 with the announcement that it was used to create the clone of a sheep, called Dolly. In 2005, the United Nations called for a ban on cloning and the United States government currently prohibits the use of federal dollars for cloning research. The scientists behind the latest development, which was partially funded by the government of South Korea, acknowledged that if the embryos in their study were implanted in a uterus they could have developed into a fetus. Without regulations in place, such embryos could also be used for human reproductive cloning, although this would be unsafe and grossly unethical, study author Dr. Robert Lanza, chief scientist … Continue reading →