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Researchers Take Another Stem Cell Step

404132862 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:10:29 -0400

Harvard team reports major step forward in cell reprogramming

404132862 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:00:00 -0400

A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers has made a major advance toward producing induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, that are safe enough to use in treating diseases in patients.

Massachusetts Lt. Governor tours Harvard research facilities

404132862 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:43:08 -0400

Massachusetts Lt. Governor Timothy Murray on Wednesday toured Harvard labs in both Cambridge and Boston.

"The Patrick Administration has been very supportive of the university research sector in Massachusetts and we welcomed the opportunity to show him the range of projects ongoing at Harvard, in both Cambridge and Longwood, that are cutting-edge, multidisciplinary and often involve collaboration with partners from other institutions, including the University of Massachusetts, and industry," Casey said.

Five at Harvard named HHMI Early Career Scientists;

404132862 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:00:15 -0400

Five Harvard scientists are among 50 young scientists nationwide who will have their work supported for the next six years by a new initiative from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

HHMI today announced that the selected scientists are at 33 institutions across the United States and have led their own laboratories for two to six years. An HHMI statement described the young researchers as “energetic and passionate about a broad range of scientific questions… at a career stage that many consider to be a scientist’s most productive — and most vulnerable.”

Faculty approves undergraduate concentration in human developmental, regenerative biology

404132862 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:51:26 -0400

Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences late today voted to approve a new undergraduate concentration, or major, in Human Development and Regenerative Biology.

One of the first of its kind in the nation, the new program will be available this fall to students starting with current freshman, the Class of 2012. The concentration will focus on human development, disease, and aging, and will provide “hands on” science education from the first semester.

Stem Cell Research: The Quest Resumes

404132862 — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:04:43 -0500

"After eight years of political ostracism, stem-cell scientists like Harvard's Douglas Melton are coming back into the light — and making discoveries that may soon bring lifesaving breakthroughs.

Scientific inspiration can come from anywhere — a person, an event, even an experiment gone awry. But perhaps nothing can drive innovation more powerfully than the passion born of tragedy. Or, in Douglas Melton's case, near tragedy. The co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) is one of the leading figures in the search for cures for presently incurable diseases, and his breakthrough work is challenging many long-held beliefs about the ways biology and human development work."

Stem cell researcher honored by President George W. Bush

404132862 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:13:40 -0500

Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientist Kevin Eggan today was cited by President George W. Bush for his work in advancing the field of stem cell science on both scientific and educational levels.

Eggan received a Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE) “… for developing new approaches for reprogramming of patient cells into pluripotent stem cells and for developing and teaching new undergraduate curriculum in stem cell science.”

Top 10 medical breakthroughs - 1. First Neurons Created from ALS Patients

404132862 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:57:13 -0500

Another step forward in ALS and stem cell research

404132862 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:03:53 -0500

A Harvard Stem Cell Institute research team has succeeded in deriving spinal motor neurons from human embryonic stem cells, and has then used them to replicate the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) disease process in a laboratory dish.

Stem Cell Summit hails bench progress, looks to bedside future

404132862 — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:31:13 -0400

New discoveries concerning cell reprogramming over the past year have boosted stem cell researchers in the lab and encouraged efforts to transfer test tube and lab animal advances to humans suffering degenerative diseases such as diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, and Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Leaders of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and Harvard President Drew Faust hailed advances in the last year as significant steps in the drive to understand and one day treat these diseases, which afflict millions around the world.

Cell changes may help Lou Gehrig's research

404132862 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:08:09 -0400

Brain cells made from skin of 80-year-olds with Lou Gehrig's

404132862 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:58:26 -0400

Personalized stem cells one step closer to reality

404132862 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:55:44 -0400

Scientists make stem cells from ALS patients

404132862 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:54:10 -0400

Scientists Achieve Stem-Cell Milestone

404132862 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:52:48 -0400