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Stem Cells
Stem Cells: are cells with the potential to develop into many different types of cells in the body. They serve as a repair system for the body. There are two main types of stem cells: embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells.
APR 01, 2018 | 12:00 AM
One would think that getting the diagnosis after fifteen years would end the journey. How does your work at the bench affect patients and how can you change lives through cell therapy? ...
MAR 29, 2018 | 12:00 PM
It has only been in the last 20 years that we, the scientific/medical community, have appreciated the role of the endogenous Cannabinoid system (ECS) in maintaining a healthy immune system an...
MAR 28, 2018 | 10:00 AM
DATE: March 28, 2018TIME: 10:00am PDT, 01:00pm EDTPrimary cells are derived from various tissues typically via dissection, enzymatic dissociation, and subsequent culture in media specif...
MAR 27, 2018 | 9:00 AM
DATE: March 27, 2018TIME: 09:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDTThe rapid adoption and ease of use of CRISPR-Cas9 has driven the development of applications for gene knockout, precise gene editing, a...
MAR 22, 2018 | 9:00 AM
DATE: March 22, 2018TIME: 09:00am PST, 12:00pm ESTGlioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive primary brain cancer, with nearly universal recurrence after treatment. GBMs are highly heter...
MAR 22, 2018 | 8:00 AM
Antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) represent a novel method to deliver a drug to diseased cell using the specific antigen-binding capability and internalization process. Antibodies that do not i...
MAR 15, 2018 | 10:30 AM
The study of rare, neurological disorder and the development of effect treatments can pose many unique challenges. A paucity of scientists working on these disorders often limits forward prog...
MAR 14, 2018 | 9:00 AM
Biomedical research depends on the use of model systems to explore basic biology, probe disease mechanisms, and conduct drug discovery and development. However, results from such systems are...
MAR 01, 2018 | 12:00 AM
The isolation of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and the discovery of human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) reprogramming have sparked a renaissance in stem cell biology, in vitro di...
FEB 22, 2018 | 12:00 PM
There is an acute shortage of organs due to disease, trauma, congenital defects, and most importantly, age related maladies. The synthetic materials used in tissue engineering applications to...
FEB 22, 2018 | 9:00 AM
DATE: February 22, 2018TIME: 09:00am PST, 12:00pm EST, 06:00pm CEST(Europe)Colorectal cancer (CRC) develops during a multi-step process from small lesions of the intestinal epithelium....
FEB 21, 2018 | 10:30 AM
Therapies that activate the host immune system have shown tremendous promise for a wide variety of solid tumors. However, in most cancer types, fewer than half of patients respond to these th...
FEB 01, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Pluripotent stem cells can reproduce indefinitely and develop into any cell type in the body. We are putting pluripotent stem cells to use, for a neuron replacement therapy for Parkinso...
JAN 25, 2018 | 8:00 AM
DATE: January 25, 2018TIME: 8:00AM PST, 10:00AM CSTProstate cancer (PCa) is the most common noncutaneous malignancy in men in the US. A significant fraction of advanced PCa treate...
JAN 01, 2018 | 10:00 AM
The capacity to generate disease-relevant cell populations from human pluripotent stem cells has tremendous potential for shedding light on human disease mechanisms. I will discuss basic prin...
JAN 01, 2018 | 12:00 AM
My talk shall encompass how the stem cell research field has evolved from embryonic stem cells to adult stem cells and currently induced pluripotent stem cells with special reference to the f...
DEC 14, 2017 | 6:00 AM
DATE: December 14, 2017TIME: 05:00am PST, 08:00am EST, 2:00pm CETvon Willebrand Disease (vWD) is one of the most common congenital bleeding disorders, affecting ~1%* of the world’...
