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We Need 100% of the Available Brainpower to Reach Cures. NYSCF’s Initiative on Women in Science and Engineering Is Fighting to Make Sure We Get There.
“We were determined to do something more than just write another white paper that would end up in a drawer,” explained NYSCF Associate Vice President of...
Progress, Challenges, and Promise: On the Road to a Type 1 Diabetes Cure
“How many people were promised a cure [for type 1 diabetes] within five or ten years?” JDRF CEO Aaron Kowalski asks the audience. Half the hands...
NYSCF Scientists Talk Space, Stem Cells, and their Pioneering Study of MS and PD
The International Space Station (ISS) houses more than astronauts: the football-field-sized spacecraft is also home to a large range of research projects carried out in the...
New Hope for Alzheimer’s: Scientists and Clinicians Present Emerging Therapies for a Notoriously Challenging Disease
Alzheimer’s remains one of the most devastating diseases in the world, and though there are more than 44 million people with it worldwide, there are still...
Going Gray? Stress — and Depleted Stem Cells — Are the Likely Culprits
The Context: We’ve all heard that stress can turn your hair gray. But there hasn’t been much scientific evidence that this is true — and if...
Building Bruch’s Membrane to Better Understand Macular Degeneration
The Context: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) results from the death of retinal pigmented epithelial cells (RPEs) in the eye. Bruch’s membrane is a structure that sits...
CYTOVIA Therapeutics and the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute Enter into a Partnership to Develop iPSC-Derived CAR NK Therapeutics
Research teams will use stem cell and gene editing technologies to advance NK cell-based therapies for cancer New York, New York (January 9, 2020) – The...
For a Family Affected by Rare Disease, Stem Cells are Providing New Hope
When Ariya Panwala was born, she was a happy, squirmy baby — but after a few months, her parents noticed she wasn’t advancing as expected. Her...
What’s the Best Way to Preserve Personalized Bone Grafts?
The Context: After a bone graft is created from stem cells, it will likely have to be preserved for a while before it reaches a patient....
NYSCF Collaboration Sends Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s Disease Brain Cells to Space
Brain cells derived from the stem cells of multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease patients are on their way up to the International Space Station! This afternoon,...
First-in-kind Human 3-dimensional Models of Parkinson’s Disease and Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Launching to the International Space Station
First patient-derived, induced pluripotent stem cell disease-specific organoid models in microgravity to advance understanding of neurodegenerative disease LOUISVILLE, KY — (BUSINESS WIRE) — The National Stem...
NYSCF, Johns Hopkins, and Bloomberg Philanthropies Partner to Advance Precision Medicine
A new collaboration between the NYSCF Research Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM), and Bloomberg Philanthropies is aiming to push precision medicine forward using...
NYSCF Announces 2019 Class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators
New York, NY (October 22, 2019) – The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) today announced the 2019 class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators, welcoming six...
New Hope for a Rare and Deadly Neurological Disease
The Context: Pelizaeus – Merzbacher disease (PMD) is a rare neurological condition typically diagnosed in infancy which often becomes fatal by a patient’s teenage years. While...
Three is Better Than One: Three-Organoid System Opens Door for More Comprehensive Study and Treatment of Liver Diseases
The Context: Organoids (3D aggregates of human tissue made from stem cells) are advantageous for studying disease and development since they recapitulate the way different cell...
Parent-Specific Stem Cells Provide Insight into Human Development
The Context: Humans inherit two sets of genes, one from each biological parent. Some of these genes have only one parent’s copy activated, while the other...
Alzheimer’s Stem Cells are Uncovering Disease Mechanisms, and NYSCF is Making Them Widely Available to the Research Community
One of the great advantages of stem cells is that they can be used to make personalized models of disease — they let us study exactly...
Grades Are In: Gender Equality Report Card Reveals Systematic Underrepresentation of Women in STEM
Four-year Study of over 500 Research Institutions Identifies Widespread Gender Imbalance New York, NY (September 5, 2019) – Teams from the New York Stem Cell Foundation...
To Make New Neurons, Alzheimer’s-Affected Brains Need to do Some Cleaning
The Context: Alzheimer’s-affected brains do not make new neurons out of neural stem cells as efficiently as healthy brains, and this is an early sign of...
Stem Cells Take to Space: NYSCF Collaboration Launches the First 3D Models of Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis to the International Space Station
On Thursday evening, SpaceX cargo flight CRS-18 took off from Cape Canaveral, bound for the International Space Station (ISS). Aboard for the 250-mile journey were brain...
Meet LADL: A New Technology for Controlling DNA Folding
The Context: To fit inside the nucleus of our cells, our DNA crumples up, forming loops and making itself compact. When certain sequences of looped DNA...
NYSCF Collaboration Finds Possible Mechanism Behind Tired Brain Cells in Progressive MS
The Context: In multiple sclerosis (MS), brain cells degenerate and malfunction, leaving patients with symptoms such as numbness, weakness, vision loss, tremor, fatigue, and cognitive impairment....
NYSCF Innovators Forge New Connections at Annual Retreat
What one word would our Innovators use to describe the NYSCF community? “Family,” said NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator and Stanford University Assistant Professor of Neurobiology...
NYSCF Collaboration Discovers New Role for Metabolism in Pluripotency
The Context: What makes stem cells special is their ability to turn into other cell types in the body (a characteristic called “pluripotency”). Our understanding of...