Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster have discovered neural stem cells outside the brain in mice, in peripheral organs such as the lungs, tail, and limbs, according to a report in the journal Nature Cell [...]
As we previously explained in an article published by our Observatory, artificial embryos (also called embryoids, embryonic models or blastoids) are cellular aggregates obtained from what are popularly known as “stem cells”. These cells reflect some structures and functions of [...]
One of the great advances in medicine is regenerative therapy and stem cell treatments. They are relevant numbers of products and therapies, several of them have been approved by the FDA but many more are in the trial phase. Stem [...]
These new organisms could be used to study embryonic development in its early stages, a line of biomedical research that could be free of ethical problems. A multidisciplinary team from Monash University, Melbourne (Australia), led by Argentine researcher Jose Maria [...]
“If this project is successful, it would create an unusual AI paradigm according to which biology would be necessary to achieve a major AI project.“ The Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Barcelona (Spain) is one of several scientific [...]
The first trials were carried out twenty years ago, in animals with stem cells in the heart the latest experimentation with satisfactory results in mice was made last year (read HERE). The aim has been to regenerate lost heart muscle [...]
A 3D bioprinted organoid that mimics an animal heart has been produced using human iPS cells, as published in Circulation Research on 3 July 2020. The encouraging news is that six weeks after producing it, it was able to beat. [...]
The existence of a second patient who has been spontaneously cured of HIV infection is confirmed, according to an article published in The Lancet HIV. The first patient cured was Timothy Brown, the “Berlin patient” and the new case of [...]
Cornea repair with iPS cells Last September, an article published in NATURE Journal (September 2, 2019) stated that a Japanese woman has become the first person to have her cornea repaired using iPS cells (See more). The woman had a [...]
Scientist Hiromitsu Nakauchi is the first researcher in Japan to receive permission from the government to create human-animal embryos, that contain human cells, and transplant them into surrogate animals for gestation, (to create human-animal chimeras) as explained in an article [...]
Cell reprogramming has opened great therapeutic possibilities in medicine. Within this field, one of the most attractive possibilities would be to replace neurons that may be destroyed in various illnesses or following a stroke. Now, a new prospect has been [...]
Cell reprogramming is revolutionizing the biomedical world, not only because it can obtain cells of different tissues from pluripotent cells, but also because these cells can be genetically modified to be used for the treatment of serious illnesses or to [...]
