Cardiac reprogramming and stem cell therapy are innovative fields ... Recent research has focused on various methods to convert cardiac fibroblasts (the cells that form scar tissue after heart ...

Pancreatic cancer hijacks nerve cells to fuel tumor growth and resist therapy, researchers find. Blocking nerve signals ...

Pancreatic cancer is fueled by connections to the nervous system. This is reported by scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Heidelberg Institute for Stem Cell Technology and ...

Pancreatic cancer is fueled by connections to the nervous system. This is reported by scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the ...

Researchers will explore a promising approach for treating degenerative diseases by replacing damaged cells with new ones and will focus on genetically engineering replacement cells from embryonic ...

The possibility to reprogram fibroblasts into induced dendritic cells (DC ... questions of cell identity and epigenetic memory in the fields of developmental and stem cell biology. Given the potential ...

Direct neuronal reprogramming is an innovative new technology that involves the conversion of somatic cells to induced neurons (iNs) without passing through a pluripotent state. The capacity to make ...

A revolutionary approach to immune therapy has emerged: engineered immune cells that protect healthy tissue without ...

Researchers have identified the molecular and cellular mechanisms that transform healthy stem cells into oral cancer at the earliest stages of the disease.

Northwestern Medicine investigators have developed a new avenue to reprogram compromised immune cells to act against tumors, ...