Scientists on Wednesday unveiled two methods for coaxing stem cells into blood cells, a long-sought goal that could lead to new treatments for blood disease, including leukemia. In separate experiments reported in Nature — one with mice, the other transplanting human stem cells into mouse ...
A Japanese team becomes the first to grow the eggs and sperm of an endangered species using induced pluripotent stem cells, raising the potential to halt extinctions.
A team led by the government-affiliated research institute Riken said Tuesday that it had carried out the world's first surgery transplanting retina cells created from donor iPS cells. By using a stockpile of induced pluripotent stem cells at Kyoto University, not iPS cells made from ...
A Japanese research team said Monday it will begin the world's first clinical trials involving transplanting retinal cells grown from iPS stem cells obtained from one person to another. The team, including staff at the government-backed Riken institute, has started soliciting patients to participate in ...
A health ministry panel gives permission to conduct the world’s first transplants of retinal cells grown from artificially derived donated stem cells to stop macular degeneration.
Kyoto University will suspend its supply of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells for clinical use after a wrong reagent was possibly used to create such cells. The suspension is "a very tough decision," Shinya Yamanaka, director of the university's Center for iPS Cell Research and ...
Japanese researchers succeed in producing miniature bowels from human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells, a breakthrough that could advance research on the digestive system.
Photoreceptor cell functions of mice with an incurable eye disease recovered after the transplant of such cells produced from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), according to a study published Wednesday. The research, performed by a team including Michiko Mandai of the Riken Center for ...
With just three of animals left alive, Japanese scientist offers aid in quest to repopulate northern white rhinoceros.
Japanese Nobel Prize winner Shinya Yamanaka says he sees potential for tapping artificial intelligence to more quickly and accurately check the safety of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells in regenerative medicine. "I want to use artificial intelligence to analyze the enormous amount of data on ...
Fujifilm Holdings Corp.'s new president, Kenji Sukeno, aims to make its pharmaceutical operations profitable and said the company will consider acquisitions to bolster growth in sectors where it has an existing presence. The company is targeting 20 percent operating margins in its drug operations and ...
Hitachi Ltd. and Kyoto University's iPS cell research institute will launch a project to compare induced pluripotent stem cells generated from patients with diseases and from healthy volunteers to help develop new drugs and learn more about disease mechanisms. The project, expected to start later ...
