Weekly Roundup – The Stem Cellar

THIS BLOG IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN AUDIO CAST I have a confession. Deep down I’m shallow. So when something I am part of is acknowledged as one of the best, I delight in it (my fellow bloggers K...

https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2022/05/02/its-hard-to-be-modest-when-people-keep-telling-you-how-good-you-are/

Can cell therapy beat the most difficult diseases? That’s the question posed in a headline in National Geographic. The answer; maybe, but it is going to take time and money. The article focuses...

https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2019/02/22/stories-that-caught-our-eye-national-geographic-takes-a-deep-dive-into-ips-cells-japanese-researchers-start-ips-cell-clinical-trial-for-spinal-cord-injury-and-do-high-fat-diets-increase-your-risk-o/

Stem cell image of the week:  Immature human eggs (pink) were created by Japanese researchers using stem cells that were derived from blood cells. A team of Japanese scientists say they have tak...

https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2018/09/21/stem-cell-stories-that-caught-our-eye-human-eggs-from-stem-cells-a-new-way-to-heal-broken-bones-and-a-lab-grown-esophagus/

Stem cell image of the week:  New Research out of the Salk Institute could bring us closer to reprogramming stem cells without taking them out of the body (Adonica Shaw) Our stem cell image of ...

https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2018/09/07/stem-cell-stories-that-caught-our-eye-reprogramming-cells-in-vivo-may-help-doctors-heal-ulcers-cirm-funded-clinical-trial-for-multiple-myeloma-shows-promise-and-a-new-report-clears-up-an-old-questi/

CIRM-grantee wins prestigious research award Do we know how to pick ‘em or what? For a number of years now we have been funding the work of Stanford’s Dr. Marius Wernig, who is doing groundbr...

https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2018/08/24/stem-cell-stories-that-caught-our-eye-cirm-funded-scientist-wins-prestigious-prize-and-a-tooth-trifecta/

Stem cell image of the week: The demise of Three Blind Mice nursery rhyme (Todd Dubnicoff) Our stem cell image of the week may mark the beginning of the end of the Three Blind Mice nursery rhyme ...

https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2018/08/17/stem-cell-stories-that-caught-our-eye-3-blind-mice-no-more-and-a-tale-of-two-tails/

The Stem Cellar’s Image of the Week. Our favorite image this week, comes to us from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Looking like a psychedelic Rorschach te...

https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2018/08/10/stem-cell-roundup-knowing-the-nose-stem-cell-stress-and-cell-fate-math/

Stem Cell Image of the Week: Artificial embryos for studying miscarriage (Adonica Shaw) This week’s stem cell image of the week comes from a team of researchers from The University of Cambridge...

https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2018/07/27/stem-cell-roundup-artificial-embryos-to-study-miscarriage-and-als-insight-muscle-repair-cells-go-rogue/

Stem cell photo of the week: high schooler becoming a stem cell pro this summer This summer’s CIRM SPARK Programs, stem cell research internships for high school students, are in full swing. Al...

https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2018/06/22/stem-cell-roundup-summer-scientists-fat-blocking-cells-recent-human-evolution/

Stanford lab develops method to make nerve cells from blood. Back in 2010, Stanford Professor Marius Wernig and his team devised a method to directly convert skin cells into neurons, a nerve cell...

https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2018/06/08/friday-stem-cell-roundup-making-nerves-from-blood-new-clues-to-treating-parkinsons/