The latest news and updates about NYSCF and our collaborators
Watch the Fireside Chat video and read the summary below. After a historic research effort, COVID-19 vaccines are already here. Several of these vaccines, including the...
The Context: Prosthetic implants are regularly used in dentistry and orthopedics, and there are an estimated 2 million Americans living with limb loss today. Most prosthetic...
The Context: Scientists have long known that octopuses are able to taste what they touch with their tentacles, but the way their tentacles sense taste has...
Cover photo: Dr. Valentina Fossati (NYSCF) and Jason Stein (Aspen Neuroscience) prepare cells for launch. Photo credit: Space Tango Why send cells affected by multiple sclerosis...
Hosted by CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta, MD, this year’s New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute Gala & Science Fair went virtual for the...
The Context: CRISPR gene editing holds a great deal of promise for correcting disease-causing mutations in humans, potentially as early as during embryonic development. However, before...
Top row: Drs. Raffaella Di Micco, Samantha Morris, José Ordovás-Montañés. Bottom row: Drs. Jiami Guo, David Schneider, John Tuthill New York, NY (October 20, 2020) – The...
We are pleased to share that NYSCF Senior Research Investigator Bjarki Johannesson, PhD, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Daniela Cornacchia, PhD, have received a Healthy...
At the end of August, 39 high school students who attend different public, private, and charter schools across New York City and the Northeast and hail...
The Context: Organoids – 3D structures of human tissue derived from stem cells – are a critical tool for helping researchers study diseases like cancer and...
It has been six months since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States at full force, leaving millions sick, out of work, and desperate for new...
A multi-institutional team of scientists led by Lorenz Studer, MD (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) and including Gist Croft, PhD (The NYSCF Research Institute), NYSCF –...
“Incredible.” “Eclectic.” “Life-changing.” These are just a few words that the 2020 class of NYSCF interns have used to describe their summer. These 22 talented high...
The Context: Mitochondria are structures in our cells that carry their own DNA inherited only from our mothers and provide energy to help our bodies function....
The Context: While scientists suspect that goosebumps help animals with fur stay warm in cold environments, the reason that humans get goosebumps has been unclear. The...
At Lili Barbar’s final lab meeting (which per a discussion with her team, was pajama-themed), her mentor Valentina Fossati, PhD, began by expressing how much Lili...
The Context: One of the most useful ways for brain researchers to observe the activity of neurons is through a technique called calcium imaging, but current...
The Context: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) is a rare genetic disorder that affects myelin, the ‘cable insulation’ that helps neurons send signals, leading to severe muscle stiffness...
Disease impacts everyone, but not in the same way. Disease risk and drug efficacy can vary a great deal across individuals, and unfortunately, much of what...
Ovarian cancer is a difficult disease to tackle, as is evident from the statistics that surround it: Five years after diagnosis, ovarian cancer survival rates are...
Featured image credit: Anna Olivella The Context: Chronic sleeplessness is associated with many disorders including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, obesity, and depression. Previous studies...
Read the press release here. You may not have heard of astrocytes before, but your body is full of them: they make up more than...
Human stem-cell-derived astrocytes can be triggered to become toxic to neurons, opening the door for new understanding and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Featured image credit: Christina...
A major hurdle in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic concerns testing: we desperately need to test at much higher rates to halt the virus’s spread by ensuring...
The Context: There is an urgent need for new methods to allow effective communication for patients who have lost speaking or gesturing abilities to stroke, paralysis,...
