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Category: Adult Stem Cells

Posted on October 27, 2019October 27, 2019

Explained: How lab-grown organoids can transform medicine

Researchers had used brain organoids to study how Zika virus affects brain development in the embryo and causes small-sized brain called microcephaly. This study would have been nearly impossible using…

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Posted on February 27, 2018March 2, 2018

NCCS finds dual mechanism that helps embryonic stem cells maintain pluripotency

NCCS researchers have found two mechanisms that turn off the expression of endocytosis-associated genes, thus helping the stem cells to maintain their pluripotency.  The dual mechanism functions in such a way that…

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Posted on January 13, 2016July 20, 2016

A step closer to regenerative medicine

A landmark study published today (September 12, 2013) in Nature shows that reprogramming of adult cells that behave like stem cells can be achieved right inside the body (in vivo).…

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Posted on January 13, 2016July 20, 2016

Editorial: Food for thought

At €2,50,000, the burger produced recently using meat cultured in a lab is probably the world’s most expensive sandwich. But it marks a major milestone in the long pursuit by…

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Posted on January 12, 2016July 20, 2016

Editorial: Organs, made to order

Producing fully functional human organs using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) will, in the foreseeable future, cease to remain in the realm of science fiction. In a game-changing study…

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Posted on January 11, 2016

Editorial: Turning the clock back

Published in The Hindu on October 10,2012 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded on Monday to Sir John B. Gurdon of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge and Dr.…

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Posted on January 7, 2016

Induced pluripotent stem cells cure liver cirrhosis

Published in The Hindu on October 13, 2011 Treating human diseases using adult cells taken from a patient and genetically reprogramming them so that they behave like embryonic stem cells…

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Posted on January 5, 2016

Editorial: Milestone in stem cell research

Published in The Hindu on August 1, 2009 Research on reprogramming adult cells to make them behave like embryonic stem cells crossed a milestone recently when two Chinese teams succeeded…

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