The Scientist

The Rise of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Explore the major milestones of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) research, from Shinya Yamanaka’s discovery to current ...

Leukemia stem cells cause treatments to fail, but findings open new avenues to overcome resistance

Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the HI-STEM Stem Cell Institute have deciphered a key mechanism ...

Combination therapy with stem cell-derived immune cells boosts anti-cancer response

Cancer immunotherapy is built on a simple but powerful idea: the immune system can recognize and destroy cancer cells if it ...

New bioreactor turns stem cells into an immune-cell factory, producing 40 million human macrophages per week

Researchers at Hannover Medical School (MHH) have developed a method for the efficient production of human immune cells, such ...
Science Daily

One stem cell generates 14 million tumor-killing NK cells in major cancer breakthrough

Scientists in China have unveiled a breakthrough way to mass-produce powerful cancer-fighting immune cells in the lab. By engineering early-stage stem cells from cord blood—rather than trying to ...
The New York Times

Are Stem Cell Therapies Safe to Try?

Stem cells can fight disease from the inside out. But not all treatments are created equal. By Mohana Ravindranath The promise of stem cell therapy is powerful. Scientists can draw versatile cells ...
UUHC Health Feed

First Successful Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant Using Deceased Donor in Blood Cancer Clinical Trial

For the first time ever, a patient has received an allogeneic stem cell transplant using a deceased donor graft as part of a blood cancer clinical trial at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University ...