Sourcing stem cells from breast milk – Foteini Hassiotou

Stem cells discovered in human milk can turn into any kind of tissue.

ABC Science Online, Meet a scientist. May 2012

Fewer genetic changes than expected in pluripotent stem cells

Whole genomic sequencing of induced pluripotent stem cells from human bone marrow revealed relatively few genetic changes during the conversion from adult to stem cell

Health Canal: 30 April 2012

Engineered stem cells seek out and kill HIV

Engineering stem cells to form immune cells that target HIV is effective in suppressing the virus in living tissues in an animal model.

UCLA: 12 April 2012

Somatic stem cells obtained from skin cells for first time ever

Scientists have bypassed the pluripotent reprogramming stage and, using a combination of growth factors, turned skin cells directly into neuronal somatic stem cells.

Max Planck Institute 22 March 2012

Stem Cells: A Lancet review of the science

March 2012 ed of Lancet – comprehensive review of stem cell science – tissue engineering, regen therapies, cardiac, adult, ESC, etc

The Lancet March 2012

Human eggs created from stem cells

An experiment that has produced human eggs from stem cells could one day be a boon for women who are desperate to have a baby.

COSMOS: 27 February 2012

National Geographic 29 February 2012

Hopes for reversing age-associated effects in MS patients

A mouse study showed it is possible to reverse the decline in the regeneration of the nerve’s protective sheath, which occurs in people with MS.

University of Cambridge: 6 January 2012

Shot of young stem cells halt ageing in mice

Mice bred to age quickly became healthier and lived two to three times longer than expected after injection with stem cell-like progenitor cells from the muscle of young animals.

University of Pittsburg School of Health Sciences: 3 January 2012

New stem cells, new chronic spinal cord injury clinical trial

  The first cohort of in a Phase I/II clinical trial in chronic spinal cord injury has been successfully transplanted with  neural stem cells.

University California Irvine: 15 December 2011

Blood stem cells engineered to fight melanoma

In mice, blood stem cells have been genetically altered to create an army of melanoma-fighting T-cells.

University California – UCLA: 29 November 2011