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Georgetown University Medical Center's Center for Cell Reprogramming Focuses on research in conditional reprogramming and its application to cancer biology and regenerative medicine. Harvard Stem Cell Institute Supports research into all aspects of stem cell biology, with special emphasis on those areas with the greatest potential for improving human health. Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering (ICE) Represents the stem cell research effort at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where faculty, fellows, postdocs and students and staff study some of the most exciting problems in stem cell science today. McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine Established for University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center scientists and clinical faculty working to develop tissue engineering, cellular therapies, biosurgery, and artificial and biohybrid organ devices. National Human Neural Stem Cell Resource Provides neural stem cells harvested from the post-natal, post-mortem, human brain to the research community for stem cell research. New York Stem Cell Science (NYSTEM) Supports basic, applied, translational or other research and development activities that will advance scientific discoveries in fields related to stem cell biology. Pittsburgh Development Center of Magee-Womens Research Institute Explores the molecular biology of cell function, including the potential of stem cells for treating human disease. Sloan-Kettering Institute Part of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the world's oldest and largest private institution devoted to patient care, education, and research into cancer. Stanford University School of Medicine/Institute for Cancer/Stem Cell Biology and Medicine Explains Stanford's involvement and perspective on stem cell issues, with links to related sites. Texas Heart Institute Stem Cell Center Dedicated to the study of adult stem cells and their role in treating cardiovascular disease, including clinical trials (in human patients), as well as many preclinical studies (in the laboratory) using stem cells. Tulane Center for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine Developing new therapies for a series of common diseases including osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, Parkinsonism, spinal cord injury, stroke, diabetes and Alzheimers disease. The Center also provides educational programs for career development, job training and life-long learning of citizens. University of California, San Francisco/Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Program Highlights of UCSF human embryonic stem cell research. University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine's Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute ISCI's goal is to spearhead cell based therapies for a host of untreatable diseases. Its focus includes research in basic cell biology, hematology, oncology, cardiology, dermatology, diabetes and endocrinology, neurology, orthopaedics, pediatrics, and ethics and science policy. University of Minnesota: Stem Cell Institute Works to enhance understanding of stem cells' potential to improve human and animal health. University of Pennsylvania: Institute for Regenerative Medicine IRM was created to promote basic discoveries in stem cell biology and regeneration, and to translate those discoveries into new therapies that may alleviate suffering and disease. Additionally, education and outreach at the IRM aims to ensure students from kindergarten through graduate school are exposed to exciting and accurate education about regenerative biology and stem cell research. University of Wisconsin/Embryonic Stem Cell Research Scientists at UW-Madison were the first to successfully isolate and culture human embryonic stem cells. Yale Stem Cell Center The mission of the Yale Stem Cell Center is to advance our understanding of stem cell biology and to harness its potential to improve human health.
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Posted: March 14, 2015 at 10:47 pm
Associate Professor Helen Abud at Monash University. Photo: Chris Hopkins
A gene that evolved with the first multicellular animals 600 million years ago has been found to control the survival of stem cells in the human bowel. This opens a pathway to regenerating the lining of the bowel in people with bowel disease, and in those who are undergoing chemotherapy.
The gene may also predict the rate of spread of colorectal cancer.
These are some of the findings by a group of Melbourne researchers published this month in the prestigious European Molecular Biology Organisation journal.
Lead authors Associate Professor Helen Abud, from the Monash School of Biomedical Sciences, and Associate Professor Gary Hime, a University of Melbourne stem cell geneticist, made their discovery by studying the specialised tissue which forms the inner lining of the digestive tract that absorbs nutrients, and where bowel cancer starts.
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The tissue was examined using a unique culture system that can be used to study the role of the protein in healthy and cancerous tissue as well as in chemotherapy and radiation-resistant tumours.
Professor Abud says the lining of the bowel is a particularly volatile part of the body, dying off and being renewed every week.
"It's a protection mechanism, because the bowel is such a harsh environment," Professor Abud said. "It relies on a store of stem cells making new cells as the old cells are being lost."
When this balance is disrupted, mutations can arise which lead to a rapid production of cancer cells. Or, conversely, an infection can cause the stem cells to die off and the lining isn't replaced, causing painful inflammation and ulcers.
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Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University have successfully engineered custom blood cells after correcting a genetic error in stem cells from patients with sickle cell disease.
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"It may be possible in the not-too-distant future to provide patients with sickle cell disease with an exciting new treatment option," said Linzhao Cheng, member of the institute for cell engineering at the Johns Hopkins.
This method of generating custom blood cells may also be applicable for other blood disorders.
The problem is that over time, patients' bodies often begin to mount an immune response against the foreign blood.
"Their bodies quickly kill off the blood cells so they have to get transfusions more and more frequently," Cheng added.
To solve that problem, the researchers started with patients' blood cells and reprogrammed them into so-called induced pluripotent stem cells which can make any other cell in the body and grow indefinitely in the laboratory.
They then used a relatively new genetic editing technique called CRISPR to snip out the sickle cell gene variant and replace it with the healthy version of the gene.
The final step was to coax the stem cells to grow into mature blood cells.
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Posted: March 14, 2015 at 10:41 am
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Posted: March 13, 2015 at 4:05 pm
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Through stem cell research, two Madison men who suffer from a genetic condition that causes blindness and hearing loss are receiving experimental treatment.
Johnny and Mike Walsh, sons of University of Wisconsin Regent David Walsh who suffer from Usher disease are helping David Gamm, a UW professor and expert in retinal and stem biology, by giving him their blood cells in order to search for a treatment for degenerative eye conditions.
Johnny has had hearing problems from birth and is now legally blind. However, he maintains a positive attitude due to the experimental treatment he is receiving in Madison and does not let his disability get in the way of his career as an attorney at Axley Brynelson LLP.
It is interesting that here I am in Madison getting a diagnosis and then having such a great research institution there in my backyard and its convenient for them to have my family there because you got four kids, three who carry the genes, two who are affected and one who isnt. So you have a perfect control right there, I think thats kind of neat for Dr. [David] Gamm to have and he takes our blood whenever he needs it, Walsh said.
Mike started a project entitled Flight4Sight, where he travels the world to spread awareness and understanding about blindness. His project is on Facebook and a blog, where he takes his followers advice on where to travel next.
Mike said he benefits from the research Gamm, of the Waisman Center,does.
Gammis working closely with Cellular Dynamics International, a Madison-based company which has recently received a $1.2 million grant to continue their research on human stem cells.
CDI specializes in creating human cells, including various types of stem cells. With the National Eye Institutes funding, CDI will carry out this stem cell-based research in the first study of its kind to be performed in the United States.
Eye conditions that include dry age-related macular degeneration affect as many as 11 million Americans who have some form of macular degeneration, according to the CDI statementregarding the grant. The cells being used for this study are CDI developed and manufactured through induced pluripotent stem cells, which will potentially have application in discovering treatments for retinal and eye conditions.
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Posted: March 13, 2015 at 4:02 pm
9 hours ago by Hannah L. Robbins In the top image the frog embryo is developing normally. In the bottom image the frog embryo is lacking a head and brain as a result of the suppression of the Notum protein. Credit: Nathalia G. Amado
A protein that is necessary for the formation of the vertebrate brain has been identified by researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and Boston Children's Hospital, in collaboration with scientists from Oxford and Rio de Janeiro.
The researchers say the finding, which has been successfully demonstrated in frog embryos, will help scientists control differentiation of various cell types.
Their study was given early online Thursday and is being published in print in the March 23 issue of the journal Developmental Cell. Xinjun Zhang and Seong-Moon Cheong, both postdoctoral fellows in the laboratory of HSCI-affiliated faculty member Xi He at Boston Children's Hospital, are co-first authors.
The protein, Notum, first discovered in fruit flies in 2002 and then found in mice and humans, is one of many that help determine embryonic development. For some time, researchers have known that Notum regulates wing formation in flies. But until recently, it was not known how Notum affected vertebrate embryo development. In collaboration with researchers from University of Oxford and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, He and colleagues compared how frog embryoswhich are considered models for human embryosdeveloped with and without Notum.
When the researchers injected frog embryos with Notum, the embryos grew bigger brains and heads. When Notum was not present, the embryos would become a sack of skin cells with no head and a tiny brain, a result of embryonic progenitor cells making only epidermal but not neural cells.
Simply put, said He, "The frog brain cannot be properly formed without Notum."
These findings could benefit stem cell researchers trying to create specific tissue types or organs in the lab. In order to guide or direct stem cells to differentiate into a given cell type, such as neural cells or muscle cells, researchers continue to alter their experimental recipes, fine-tuning which molecules should be added to their dishes in what sequence and amount.
For those trying to create neural cells, "Notum is a necessary ingredient and new tool in the kit box for researchers to instruct human progenitor cells to become neural tissues," said He, who is also an American Cancer Society research professor.
Additionally, the researchers were able to demonstrate how Notum deactivates Wnt, which is a family of proteins that direct stem cells to "self-renew," or make more stem cells, among other things. If left unchecked, Wnt could cause certain types of cancer, such as gastrointestinal, brain, and blood cancers.
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