Stem Cells in Focus

Radiation therapy and chemotherapy have traditionally been considered the main forms of cancer treatment. While these treatments can be highly effective, they have significant negative side effects due to their unintended collateral toxicity on normal cells in the body. New treatments are needed to more safely treat cancers, which affect millions of people worldwide every...

The Promise It is all too common today to come across ads declaring that stem cells can cure your [insert disease/condition here]. In fact, these marketing claims made by so-called “stem cell" clinics are everywhere: in newspapers, on billboards on your way to and from work, on the television and radio, and littered all over...

The ISSCR hosted a panel of women at the leading edge of science to share their personal life experiences and discuss how they communicate in fields still largely dominated by men. The discussion, held at the 2019 annual meeting, was extremely inspiring; as a young woman in science, I learned a lot.

This month we are sharing a blog post from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). CIRM was created in 2004 with the approval of Proposition 71: the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative. The agency has funded 54 clinical trials of potential disease treatments, and in 2020 will be seeking additional funding for stem...

Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world in November 2018 when he reported the birth of twin girls born from genetically altered embryos, with another genetically-altered baby on the way. Although this report of genetic modification has not been, and may never be, independently confirmed due to privacy concerns, the birth of the so-called “