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The ISSCR Launches First Online Global Continuing Education Course on Stem Cell Medicine
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) announces the launch of a new online continuing education course, Stem Cell Medicine: From Scientific Research to Patient Care. The comprehensive course comes at a pivotal moment, addressing the growing demand for evidence-based, expert-led education amid the proliferation of unproven and potentially harmful stem cell interventions that threaten patient safety around the world. The activity, jointly provided by Harvard Medical School and the ISSCR, is open access, available on demand, and offered at no cost to clinicians, nurses, medical students, scientists, and the public. It is also available in five languages.
The ISSCR Launches Consortium to Support Adoption of Stem Cell-Derived Disease Models for Drug Discovery and Development
Advances in human stem cell-derived disease models have the potential to augment our predictive power for the efficacy and safety of new drugs. This technology, which complements existing approaches, is poised to reduce R&D costs and accelerate the development of new therapies for patients.
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has assembled an international consortium of cross-sector thought leaders from industry, academia, and regulatory science to enable the widespread, responsible adoption.
Exercise Enhances Stem Cell Transplant Function in Parkinson’s Disease
A research team led by Clare Parish from The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health (in Melbourne) and Lachlan Thompson from the University of Sydney, Australia has now tested whether exercise enhances transplant function in PD rats. In their study, rats received a stem cell-derived transplant to replace lost dopaminergic neurons and some of the rats were given free access to a running wheel. Their work was recently published in Stem Cell Reports.
New Clues to Boosting Liver Regeneration After Acetaminophen Injury
Tomomi Aoyagi and colleagues from Kyushu University, Japan, studied the behavior of single cells in the mouse liver after acetaminophen injury and noticed that regeneration likely originated from a specific type of cell. The work was recently published in Stem Cell Reports.
New Stem Cell Model of Faulty Alpha Cells that Regulate Blood Sugar in Diabetes
Recently, Quinn Peterson and colleagues from Mayo Clinic, USA, discovered a method for making human alpha cells from cultures of immature stem cells. This work was recently published in Stem Cell Reports.
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