Researchers harness 1732 transcription factors to obtain 290 new differentiation recipes
Customized programming of human stem cells
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Gene Therapy
CRISPR tagging improves accuracy of model cells grown from stem cells
Novel method identifies which master controllers of gene activity are essential to making adult cells of any type
Scientists reverse age-related vision loss, glaucoma damage in mice
Scientists have successfully restored vision in mice by turning back the clock on aged eye cells in the retina to recapture youthful gene function
Nanoparticles can turn off genes in bone marrow cells
Using these new particles, researchers could develop treatments for heart disease and other conditions
Terahertz zaps alter gene activity in stem cells
A new apparatus improves how we study the effects of aiming high-field terahertz radiation at cells, with implications for regenerative medicine
Transplanted brown-fat-like cells hold promise for obesity and diabetes
Studies in mice offer a proof of concept that ‘HUMBLE’ cells, created from human white fat, can treat metabolic diseases
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020
“for the development of a method for genome editing”
Putting ‘super’ in natural killer cells
Deleting an inhibitory gene in natural killer cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells is found to boost their anti-tumor activity and persistence; researchers now seek to develop a clinical therapy
Researchers model human stem cells to identify degeneration in glaucoma
Using human stem cell models, researchers found they could analyze deficits within cells damaged by glaucoma, with the potential to use this information to develop new strategies to slow the disease process