Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cells Technologies

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are a promising form of therapy for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The objective of this study was two‐fold: (a) to characterize cytokine expression in serum from ARDS subjects receiving MSCs and (b) to determine MSC function following “preconditioning” with ARDS serum.

The FDA has given its fast track designation to the investigational cell therapy IDCT for the treatment of degenerative disc disease.

A research team at the University of California, Riverside, has found that electronic cigarettes, often targeted to youth and pregnant women, produce a stress response in neural stem cells, which are critical cells in the brain.

Due to the increasing insulin resistance of cells, patients with type 2 diabetes suffer from increased blood sugar levels with far-reaching consequences. After many years of illness, insulin production dries up and patients have to inject insulin.

Researchers from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital have succeeded in using mice with a transplanted human immune system to study functions in the immune system which are otherwise particularly difficult to study. The method could turn out to be important in further research into cancer, HIV and autoimmune diseases.

The deputy of technology innovation and commercialization development headquarter stated: the 7th Iran Sakht Expo will host knowledge-based producers and customers during December 17th-20th, 2019 as an opportunity to showcase the latest technological achievements of Iran in this area.

The vice president for science and technology affairs emphasized that Pardis technology park is a small example of booming of innovation and technology ecosystem, expressing: an economic fight has emerged in the country, which is based on creative and innovative youth. Therefore, attention must be paid to the youth in the country.

During mammalian brain development, neural precursor cells first generate neurons and later astrocytes. This cell fate change is a key process generating proper numbers of neurons and astrocytes. Here we discovered that FGF regulates the cell fate switch from neurons to astrocytes in the developing cerebral cortex using mice. FGF is a critical extracellular regulator of the cell fate switch, necessary and sufficient, in the mammalian cerebral cortex.

Although largely paralyzed, ALS patients can communicate through eye-tracking devices because they retain eye movement until the diseases late stages. Yet, how some motor neurons resist ALS to allow for this movement has been a mystery.

A sheet of iPSC-derived epithelial cells has been transplanted into a patient for the first time by a team from Osaka University (Japan), led by Koji Nishida.