Nudging Cells to Repair Damaged Retinas
October 25, 2021 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |Researchers led by ISCRM faculty member Tom Reh induce support cells in the retina to become neurons, an approach that someday could help restore vision. Read More
Color-Coding Technology Reveals New Insights About Stem Cell Biology
July 29, 2020 | Categories: Research |Several years ago, Danny El-Nachef was given a mission to create a tool to observe and track how stem cells behaved during the earliest stages of human heart development. While the focus of the challenge was human biology, the x-factor in the solution came from the sea. Read More
Young Lab Links Loss of SORL1 Gene to Increased Alzheimer’s Risk
June 2, 2020 | Categories: Research |To overcome the inherent challenges in studying the brain, one ISCRM team used stem cell technology to implicate a gene known as SORL1 in some types of Alzheimer’s and to shed new light on why many promising treatments for this disease have hit dead ends in clinical trials. Read More