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Disease recreated in mini-kidney organoids in the lab
23 October 2015 | By Victoria White
The work paves the way for personalised drug discovery for kidney disease...
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Stem Cells
Stem cells are undifferentiated biological cells that can differentiate into specialised cells and can divide to produce more stem cells.
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iPSC technology helps characterise healthy and diseased neurons
23 October 2015 | By Victoria White
Using iPSC technology, researchers created 16 different cells lines, some using cells from healthy humans and others using cells from people with ALS or spinal muscular atrophy...
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Researchers develop animal-free renal screening platform
13 October 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers have developed the first animal-free screening platforms capable of predicting the toxic effects of compounds on the human kidney accurately...
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Asterias collaborates with Cell Therapy Catapult to scale production of AST-VAC2
13 October 2015 | By Victoria White
AST-VAC2 is an immunotherapy product that contains mature dendritic cells derived from pluripotent stem cells...
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Researchers turn stem cells into mini-kidneys
8 October 2015 | By Victoria White
The breakthrough could allow the use of mini-organs to screen drugs either for the treatment of kidney disease or to find out if a new drug is likely to injure the kidney...
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Identification of antibodies against difficult targets
15 September 2015 | By IntelliCyt
Identification of antibodies against challenging targets using high throughput multiplex-screening approaches...
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Scientists replicate newt cell regeneration with human cells
21 August 2015 | By Victoria White
Scientists have adapted the astonishing capacity of newts to regenerate tissue to rejuvenate cells from older people with osteoarthritis...
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Mass-produced stem cells on the horizon
22 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Experts at the University of Nottingham have discovered the first fully synthetic substrate with potential to grow billions of stem cells...
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MRC scientists regrow liver from liver stem cells
21 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Medical Research Council (MRC) scientists have repaired a damaged liver in a mouse by transplanting liver stem cells grown in the laboratory...
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Stem cells might heal damaged lungs
15 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Weizmann Institute scientists have shown how it might be possible to use embryonic stem cells to repair damaged lung tissue...
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USC Stem Cell researchers identify genes that affect blood stem cell development
13 July 2015 | By Victoria White
The USC Stem Cell labs of Hooman Allayee and Gregor Adams have uncovered genes that affect blood stem cell development and maintenance...
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Netrin-1 favours the production of iPS cells
8 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Two teams of researchers have discovered a molecule that may favour the production of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells)...
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Stem cells: maintaining hope and challenging hype
6 July 2015 | By Caroline Richards, Editor
Inspired by her attendance at ISSCR 2015, Editor of Drug Target Review, Caroline Richards, discusses stem cells and the rise of unregulated stem cell practitioners...
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Research demonstrates method for quantifying the effectiveness of different stem cells
3 July 2015 | By Victoria White
New research demonstrates a standardised method for quantifying the effectiveness of different stem cells for treating retinal degeneration...
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Preclinical data on Neuralstem’s genetically modified HK532-IGF-1 stem cells in Alzheimer’s disease presented at ISSCR
26 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Neuralstem has presented preclinical data on genetically modified HK532-IGF-1 stem cells in Alzheimer's disease at the ISSCR Annual Meeting...