The Stem Cells Portal brings you a roundup of some of the new and exciting stories in the ever-changing world of stem cells, regenerative medicine, and beyond! Transplantable Tissue and Organs by Stem Cell Bioprinting Bioprinting with stem cells holds the potential to generate transplantable tissues and organs. A new report from the lab of …

Review of “Quiescent Oct4+ neural stem cells (NSCs) repopulate ablated GFAP+ NSCs in the adult mouse brain” from STEM CELLS by Stuart P. Atkinson Mammalian neural stem cells (NSCs) exist as a heterogeneous population of cells, although most so-called “definitive” (d)NSCs express the glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) [1]. However, studies from the laboratory of …

The Stem Cells Portal brings you a roundup of some of the new and exciting stories in the ever-changing world of stem cells, regenerative medicine, and beyond! Regulating NSCs via Cdk4 and Insulin-IRS2 Researchers from the labs of Isabel Fariñas (Universidad de Valencia, Spain) and Deborah Burks (CIPF, Valencia, Spain) sought to explore the effects …

Japanese researchers report promising results from an experimental therapy for Parkinson’s disease that involves implanting neurons made from reprogrammed stem cells into the brain. A trial conducted in monkeys with a version of the disease showed that the treatment improved their symptoms and seemed to be safe, according to a report published August 30 in Nature. …

This past year, I was actually excited to add fat stem cells to my big annual review of the orthopedic stem cell literature. While a few small papers had been published, a big part of that literature was a huge data set by Michalek out of Eastern Europe, which purported to show that fat stem …

The Stem Cells Portal brings you a roundup of some of the new and exciting stories in the ever-changing world of stem cells, regenerative medicine, and beyond! Commitment to Hepatic Differentiation via the TCF7L2-PGC1g Axis Numerous studies have evidenced a link between mitochondrial activity and stem cell fate. In a new STEM CELLS study, the lab …

Explaining the FDA 1271 Regs Using Common Orthobiologics With the FDA crackdown this week on clinics using illegal cell-drug therapies without FDA approval, I thought it would be helpful to have a quick tutorial on what substances are allowed to be used by physicians and which are not permitted. As you’ll see, a same-day bone-marrow-based …

Does Age Impact Orthopedic Stem Cell Treatment Success? Does your age impact stem cell treatment success? We’ve looked long and hard through the years for this association, but it’s been, for the most part, elusive. We’ve published a number of scientific papers on the topic, but now a group of chiropractors is fabricating from thin …