A team of researchers have found a new way to remove blood-producing stem cells, introducing the possibility of safer, and non-matched, transplants.
Researchers have discovered a protein signal that promotes the growth of collateral arteries, which can provide backup if major arteries are blocked.
A novel immunotherapy appears safe for use in patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Here, a Northern California man shares his experience in the study.
Stanford University School of Medicine researcher Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD, was one of three expert witnesses who spoke at a U.S. Senate committee hearing on …
The body’s immune cells constantly work to achieve the right balance between being shoot-first, ask-questions-later enforcers that efficiently wipe out all diseased and infected cells …
In recent years, scientists in the laboratory of Stanford's Irving Weissman, MD, discovered that cancer cells cover themselves in copies of the CD47 “don’t eat me” …
The question sounds more like sociology than biology: What would happen if you could take a cell gone bad -- a cancer cell -- bring …
Four years ago, Irv Weissman, MD, and his lab at Stanford’s Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine published a paper showing that, in …
In the history of science and medicine, the breakthrough discoveries get a lot of deserved attention, but often overlooked are the invention of the tools …
It has been a momentous month for Stanford researcher Maria Grazia Roncarolo, MD. Following decades of research in Roncarolo's lab and the clinic, pharmaceutical company …
Academic institutions are in a much better position than pharmaceutical companies to make the best decisions about which therapies deserve further development. That was the …
At the Childx conference last week there was a great deal of optimism that stem cell and genetic therapies are about to have a huge impact …
A new era of stem cell science began 25 years ago. At that time, Stanford researcher Irving Weissman, MD, and his colleagues announced in Science that …
Last week, Science published a research report from Stanford scientists on the discovery of a single gene in a primitive marine organism that determines whether that …
Not long ago, Stanford computer scientist Debashis Sahoo, PhD, told investigators at the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine that in a …
How and why do some cells in our bodies become cancerous? Can any cell become cancerous, or only certain kinds of cells? Those are longstanding questions …
