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Seeking more equitable outcomes for his tribal heritage

...the Stanford Medical Scientist Training MD-PhD program, works in the lab of Paul Khavari, MD, PhD, professor of dermatology, studying genome regulation in stem cell differentiation and cancer. Lopez channels...

Searching for vaccine variability in the land of the flu

...four hemagglutinin types gobbles up the entire matrix and displays bits of all four on its surface. Other immune cells called helper T cells assist in activating B cells, but...

Blood condition linked to protection against Alzheimer’s

...or CHIP, certain blood stem cells acquire mutations that strengthen their ability to survive and multiply. As a result, the mutant cells dominate, and just a few cells can give...

Scientists dance the beautiful brain

...treatments that employ stem cells and electrical stimulation, said she was inspired by the performance to explore the use of dance as a therapy for stroke patients. Also dancing was...

Can we rejuvenate aging brains?

...next to mine, was using to study aging of muscle stem cells: surgically conjoining the circulatory systems of a young and an old mouse, so that the animals share their...

What can sea squirts tell us about neurodegeneration?

...been around for more than 20 years. Because the organisms in the colony reproduce asexually through a stem cell-mediated process, their stem cells are the only cells in the colonies...

Routing cancer cells to the right path may boost treatment

...and attract immune cells, including macrophages, which "eat up" the malignant cell and natural killer cells, which directly kill the cancer cells. When the antibody was developed, scientists did not...

How does one study a deadly virus? Carefully.

...discovered how to create human blood vessel cells, such as arterial cells and human venous cells, in a Petri dish. To do so, they started from human pluripotent stem cells...

The beauty of B. Schlosseri

...the contest. Tell me about your research. I study the nervous system of B. schlosseri at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine as part of a larger...

Clues from Down syndrome hint at new Alzheimer’s finding

...be increased involvement of an unexpected culprit: stem cells. Nine years ago, Stanford oncologist Michael Clarke, MD, made a connection between stem cells and Down syndrome: He showed in a...

How does CRISPR help researchers study the heart?

...model of the stem-cell-derived heart cells harboring the variant. To see if the mutation caused problems in heart cells, the researchers used CRISPR to "fix" the mutation in question in...

Engineering a new heart, layer by layer

...heart, layer by layer. Researchers start with stem cells, which are malleable, and bathe them in a chemical cocktail that coaxes them into specific cell types. In this case, they...

COVID-19 can infect the inner ear

...these other viruses, infect the inner ear. Their first cellular models were created by transforming human skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells and differentiating these stem cells into several...

Putting the move back in movement

...to offer," he said. Recovering after stroke Neurosurgeon Gary Steinberg, MD, PhD, has been helping stroke patients regain some lost movement through a very different medium -- stem cells. Steinberg's...

Tracking the progression of liver disease in a dish

...failure. The new model stems from a previous method that the team developed in 2017 to coax adult stem cells, which can develop into different types of cells, to form...

Stanford neuroscientist’s ‘assembloids’ pave the way for innovative brain research

...tinkering with induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells -- former skin cells transformed so that they've acquired an almost magical capacity to generate all the tissues in the body...