Hacker News with Generative AI: Stem Cells

First-of-its-kind trial enables paralysed man to stand via stem cell injection (nature.com)
A paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal cord injury.

Medical Research, Neuroscience, Stem Cells

175 points by bentobean 9 days ago | 34 comments

Japanese scientists use stem cell treatment to restore movement in spinal injury (medicalxpress.com)
A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first clinical study of its kind, Japanese scientists said.

Medical Research, Stem Cells

259 points by pseudolus 10 days ago | 42 comments

Scientists program stem cells to mimic first days of embryonic development (news.ucsc.edu)

Stem Cells, Biology, Science, Developmental Biology

39 points by StemCells 13 days ago | 10 comments

Directly converting skin cells to brain cells yields 1k% success (newatlas.com)
In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a way to convert skin cells directly into brain cells extremely efficiently, without needing to go through the intermediate step of converting them to stem cells first.

Regenerative Medicine, Neuroscience, Biology, Stem Cells

4 points by 01-_- 20 days ago | 1 comments

Stem cells head to the clinic: treatments for cancer, diabetes and Parkinson's (nature.com)
More than 100 clinical trials put stem cells for regenerative medicine to the test. It’s a turning point for a field beset with ethical and political controversy.

Stem Cells, Medicine, Healthcare, Clinical Trials, Ethical Issues

13 points by LinuxBender 101 days ago | 1 comments

Anti–USAG-1 therapy for tooth regeneration through enhanced BMP signaling (nlm.nih.gov)
Cell-free molecular therapy targeting USAG-1 is effective in the treatment of a wide range of congenital tooth agenesis.

Biotechnology, Dentistry, Stem Cells, Regeneration, Genetics

4 points by thunderbong 110 days ago | 1 comments

CRISPR–Cas9 screens reveal regulators of ageing in neural stem cells (nature.com)
Ageing impairs the ability of neural stem cells (NSCs) to transition from quiescence to proliferation in the adult mammalian brain.

Science, Biology, Neuroscience, Genetics, Stem Cells

3 points by bookofjoe 181 days ago | 0 comments

Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes (nature.com)
A 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes started producing her own insulin less than three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells1.

Stem Cells, Diabetes, Medicine, Science

293 points by user070223 188 days ago | 48 comments

Chinese scientists create robot with brain from human stem cells (scmp.com)

Biotechnology, Robotics, Stem Cells, China

14 points by thebigspacefuck 276 days ago | 2 comments

Nature retracts paper that claimed adult stem cell could become any type of cell (retractionwatch.com)

Science, Biology, Retractions, Stem Cells

310 points by susam 288 days ago | 176 comments

Scientists identify 'missing piece' required for blood stem cell self-renewal (sciencedaily.com)

Science, Biology, Stem Cells, Medicine

14 points by jdmark 299 days ago | 0 comments

Treating a T2 diabetic patient by personalized stem cell-derived islet tissue (nature.com)

Diabetes, Stem Cells, Medical Research, Personalized Medicine

12 points by ammo1662 331 days ago | 0 comments