A team of Japanese and British scientists has succeeded in producing fertile offspring from sterile mice made with a chromosomal abnormality by using induced pluripotent stem cells, better known as iPS cells, Kyoto University said Friday. The researchers, including professor Michinori Saito of Kyoto University, ...
A Kyoto startup unveils a way to mass-produce platelets, a key component in clotting, that could reduce doctors’ dependency on donated blood to minimize bleeding.
Kyoto University researchers are set to begin the world's first clinical trial of a drug identified using iPS cells to treat a rare bone disease, the university said Tuesday. A team led by Junya Toguchida, a professor at the university, used induced pluripotent stem cells ...
When she entered medicine in the mid-1980s, Masayo Takahashi chose ophthalmology as her specialty, she said, because she wanted to have a family and thought the discipline would spare her from sudden work calls in the middle of the night, helping her best balance ...
A team led by University of Tokyo researchers has successfully created a healthy pancreas from mouse stem cells inside the body of a rat, in a first between different species, a study published in the British science journal Nature showed. The pancreas, later transplanted into ...
A Japanese research team has applied for state approval to conduct the world's first clinical study of transplanting retinal cells grown from artificially derived stem cells of another person, the health ministry said Thursday. The aim of the procedure using the so-called induced pluripotent stem ...
A team of researchers has achieved a world's first by using induced pluripotent stem cells from a mouse tail to produce a large number of eggs in vitro.
A Japanese research team said Friday that it has developed a pretreatment method to prevent tumors from forming when human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells differentiate into neural stem cells to treat spinal cord injuries. According to a paper published in the electronic edition of ...
A research institute produces stem cells for stockpiled use in regenerative medicine from the umbilical blood of a newborn.
Researchers from Juntendo and Keio universities have come up with a quicker and easier way to generate iPS cells from people with Parkinson's disease, a discovery they claim will go a long way in developing a cure for the neurological disease. In a paper published ...
A research team at the Kyoto University's Center for iPS Cell Research and Application is delaying a possible therapy for Parkinson's disease, saying it will likely not apply for safety screening before next year. If approved, the therapy would be the world's first application of ...
A woman in her 70s being treated for an eye disease is making good progress a year after she underwent the world's first transplant using iPS-derived cells, a team of researchers said Friday. The team, comprising members from the Riken institute and the Institute of ...
